EXCLUSIVE: WGA West executive director David Young has acknowledged that he told WME partner Rick Rosen that he “should kick his ass” during a heated phone call in August, but denied that he ever threatened to “kill” him, as Rosen alleged in a declaration filed in federal court last month.Young’s version of the phone call comes fresh off of Wednesday’s signing of CAA to the WGA’s franchise agreement, and ahead of Friday’s scheduled showdown with WME in U.S.
District Court in Los Angeles.Rosen has claimed, under penalty of perjury, that Young “repeatedly threatened to ‘kill’ me” during the August phone call as the WGA and WME were trying to hammer out a deal to end their ongoing legal battle.
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