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\n\tLawyers for Julia Ormond are looking to have the court issue a bench warrant for the arrest of CAA co-founder\u00a0Michael Ovitz\u00a0for walking out of a deposition after being prodded about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
\n\tOvitz was asked about his continuing association with Epstein after the disgraced financier\u2019s conviction for sex crimes. At one point, Ovitz stopped engaging. \u201cI\u2019m not going to discuss anything about Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can ask all the questions you want, you\u2019re going to get no answers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe line of questioning related to Ovitz\u2019s assertion that he would\u2019ve cut ties with Weinstein had he known about the former movie mogul\u2019s history of sexual misconduct. Ormond, who rose to prominence in the \u201990s after starring in\u00a0Legends of the Fall, First Knight<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Sabrina<\/em>, claims in a lawsuit filed in 2023 that CAA\u2019s top brass turned a blind eye to Weinstein\u2019s crimes and failed to warn her about him before a 1995 meeting that led to her being assaulted. Ovitz was CAA\u2019s chairman in the period immediately preceding the alleged incident.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the deposition, Ovitz said he would\u2019ve investigated any allegation of sexual misconduct by Weinstein against one of his clients. Asked what he would\u2019ve done if the claim was substantiated, Ovitz replied that CAA \u201csurely wouldn\u2019t have done business\u201d with him.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI didn\u2019t like his methodology of business,\u201d Ovitz added. \u201cHe was a bully and \u2014 and he and I got into it multiple times. I talked to him as little as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLawyers for Ormond then turned to Ovitz\u2019s relationship with Epstein. Tensions flared when Ovitz was questioned about whether he continued his relationship with the disgraced financier after he learned that Epstein was convicted for sex crimes. He stood up from his chair, pointed at Ormond\u2019s lawyer and said, \u201cI\u2019m done with this. OK?\u201d He stressed, \u201cYou are out of line.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOrmond\u2019s legal team says the walkout was the culmination of a months-long pattern of contempt for court proceedings rather than an isolated incident, pointing to Ovitz ignoring a subpoena and failing to appear for a deposition in November. They\u2019re asking the court to issue a warrant for his arrest until he appears for another deposition and hands over documents relating to his communications with Weinstein.<\/p>\n \n\tCAA has maintained that the case doesn\u2019t concern Ovitz, whose legal fees are being paid for by the agency.<\/p>\n \n\tFriendly communications between Ovitz and Epstein surfaced earlier this year when the Justice Department released a trove of materials on the disgraced financier. The emails from 2012 showed that the pair planned to meet at Epstein\u2019s Manhattan home and off the coast of St. Barts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/julia-ormond-threatens-top-200-collector-michael-ovitz-bench-warrant-1234790184\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2180648045.jpg?w=1024″] Lawyers for Julia Ormond are looking to have the court issue a bench warrant for the arrest of CAA co-founder\u00a0Michael Ovitz\u00a0for walking out of a deposition after being prodded about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ovitz was asked about his continuing association with Epstein after the disgraced financier\u2019s conviction for sex crimes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2011175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}