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Warner Bros Discovery Hits Back At Russell Simmons’ “Unfounded Allegations” In Ex-Mogul’s $20M Suit Over 2020 Sexual Assault Documentary – Update
Over five years after On the Record debuted on HBO Max, Russell Simmons is insisting there was a lot more to the story the filmmakers ignored
The duo not only want a hunk of cash for their much-accused client, but they also want On the Record, which HBO picked up in March 2020, essentially scrubbed from “all platforms, networks and media outlets in the Defendants’ control” so to never be seen again. Despite voluminous support for Mr. Simmons in the form of credible information, persuasive evidence, witness statements, and calls for further investigation by notable members of the media, politics, and the civil rights movement, the defendants simply disregarded it, and released, and continue to re-release globally, a film that tremendously disparaged and damaged Mr. Simmons with salacious and defamatory accusations that he vehemently denies, “Ansari and DiMare told Deadline this AM. Corporately, On the Record was supposed to screen on AppleTV+ under the streamer’s deal with Winfrey, but when the talk show queen pulled out of the film over concerns about “some inconsistencies in the stories, ” that avenue became a dead-end.
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