Friends of Scott Rudin’s Late Assistant Speak Out on Producer’s Abuses: ‘He Was So Terrified of That Man’

variety.com:

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIn the wake of Kevin Graham-Caso’s suicide last October, his friends pored over his old emails, looking for answers.

Klodiana Alia found one from 2009, when Graham-Caso was working as an assistant to producer Scott Rudin. At the time, Graham-Caso was looking for another job, and Rudin had gotten wind of it.“He flipped out,” Graham-Caso wrote, “told me to lose his number and that I was dead to him and an enemy of his company and that he hopes I fail in life.”In another email, he wrote: “I think the time at Rudin permanently fucked my nerves.

I never used to get this worked up over stuff.”Graham-Caso’s story is now at the center of a reckoning over the way assistants are treated in Hollywood.