Adam Bold Blasts “Smear Campaign” By A3 Execs & “Greedy” Lawyer Over Claims Of Drug Use, Sexual Harassment

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A3 may be dead, but the legal war between onetime agency chairman Adam Bold and his former top executives rages on. Broadening the horizon of the flurry of filings in Los Angeles Superior Court, Hollywood heavyweight lawyer Bryan Freedman has offered to help the much-accused and allegedly drug-addicted Bold get sober and “embark on a program of recovery.” In a town literally and figuratively built on fiction, you seriously couldn’t make some of this stuff up.

Hitting back at lurid accusations and what he calls a “smear campaign” in a December 2023 suit from now former A3 partners Robert Attermann and Brian Cho citing hardcore drug use, sexual harassment, and overall claims of having “squandered everything” at the agency he took over in 2018, Bold’s acrimonious response and attempt to have the initial suit tossed out takes a lot of big swings itself.

For one, mutual fund chief Bold asserts that Cho and Attermann’s suit suggesting he “would deliberately drive the company into bankruptcy for personal gain is not only false but also absurd.” In fact, in a scorched earth tactic, Bold throws back all of A3’s recent collapse on the ex-CEO and president, as well as their attorney.

Freedman, often controversial and sparring, is a constant target in the response with Bold and his lawyers trying to tie a lot of threads together. (Read Adam Bold’s response here.) “To recap, Bryan Freedman is actually with a straight face trying to claim that Brian Cho is both an abused person and an abuser of others, and that Adam Bold is the sex pest even though Freedman himself is alleged to have committed worse sexual misconduct,” the response reads in part.