Three days after being arrested by District of Columbia police for the alleged sexual assault and attempt to blackmail a woman he met on an online dating site, the general counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America has been axed from the Hollywood lobbyist organization.
“This is to inform you that Steve Fabrizio’s employment with the MPAA has ended for violating certain terms of employment,” MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin wrote to the board of the Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros representing group today after their top in-house attorney was charged in the nation’s capitol on August 24.
“I’ve asked Daniel Robbins to be interim General Counsel as we embark on a search for a permanent replacement,” ex-u.S. Ambassador to France Rivkin informed the board on Monday too. In his now former job for the past six years, once Recording Industry Association of America,...
“This is to inform you that Steve Fabrizio’s employment with the MPAA has ended for violating certain terms of employment,” MPAA CEO Charles Rivkin wrote to the board of the Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros representing group today after their top in-house attorney was charged in the nation’s capitol on August 24.
“I’ve asked Daniel Robbins to be interim General Counsel as we embark on a search for a permanent replacement,” ex-u.S. Ambassador to France Rivkin informed the board on Monday too. In his now former job for the past six years, once Recording Industry Association of America,...
- 8/27/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Steven Fabrizio, general counsel for the Motion Picture Association of America, was fired on Monday after being arrested in Washington, D.C. following accusations of sexual assault and blackmail.
“This is to inform you that Steve Fabrizio’s employment with the MPAA has ended for violating certain terms of employment,” MPAA chairman-ceo Charles Rivkin told organization’s board in an email Monday morning. “I’ve asked Daniel Robbins to be interim general counsel as we embark on a search for a permanent replacement.”
“These charges, if true, are both shocking and intolerable to the Association,” an MPAA spokesperson said in a statement provided to TheWrap. “We had no prior knowledge of this behavior before these charges were publicly filed.”
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Fabrizio, who had worked for the MPAA since 2013, was arrested Friday night and charged on Saturday with secondary sexual abuse and blackmail,...
“This is to inform you that Steve Fabrizio’s employment with the MPAA has ended for violating certain terms of employment,” MPAA chairman-ceo Charles Rivkin told organization’s board in an email Monday morning. “I’ve asked Daniel Robbins to be interim general counsel as we embark on a search for a permanent replacement.”
“These charges, if true, are both shocking and intolerable to the Association,” an MPAA spokesperson said in a statement provided to TheWrap. “We had no prior knowledge of this behavior before these charges were publicly filed.”
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Fabrizio, who had worked for the MPAA since 2013, was arrested Friday night and charged on Saturday with secondary sexual abuse and blackmail,...
- 8/27/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
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