EXCLUSIVE: Ali Abbasi, director of the Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice, has parted ways with his U.S.
reps at CAA and Entertainment 360, Deadline has learned. We’re told there is an ugly backstory here, reminiscent of the kinds of things Abbasi’s screen subject Trump has been accused of.
Events unfolded at CAA’s Golden Globes afterparty, where, sources said, an inebriated Abbasi aggressively groped an A-list, CAA-repped actor.
Sources told Deadline that in the aftermath, the agency braced the filmmaker and demanded an apology to the actor, though others close to the filmmaker told us he was explicitly advised not to be in contact with the actor.
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