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CAA Says It’s Got Range On Camera In Trade-Secrets Theft & Talent-Poaching Suit; Uberagency Claims Rival Was “Fully Aware Of The Legal Risk”
Range founders got caught with their sticky fingers in the CAA trade secrets cookie jar, the Bryan Lourd-run unberagency claims in an amended complaint
“Newly uncovered video footage, documents, photographs, and secret Telegram chats reveal an extensive plot by Range’s founders to steal from Creative Artists Agency, LLC set up an illegal talent agency, and cover up its wrongdoing,” proclaims a heavily redacted amended complaint filed today by CAA’s outside counsel at Paul Hastings. Today’s filing comes almost a full five years after Micelli, Whigham, Cooper, Sullivan and Bugliari were among the well-connected core group that founded Range with some big bucks backing from hedge fund kingpin and now New York Mets owner Steve Cohen. It also comes approximately nine-months after the Artemis-owned CAA placed their initial complaint in the court docket tha t their nearly year-long action to put what they call Range’s “business model” of “pursuit of unlawful profit through deception” under the legal and ethical microscope.
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