Julia Ormond seeks to force Michael Ovitz to testify in the CAA trial

Julia Ormond asks a court to enforce an assignment against the CAA co-founder, Michael Ovitz, after having jumped a remarkable deposition in June.

Ormond continues the agency for having allegedly established it to be sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein in December 1995 – an accusation that the agency categorically denied.

Ovitz left the agency to occupy employment number two in Disney in August 1995. Ormond lawyers want to question it about the agency’s ties with Weinstein and the comments he made about sexual harassment in the industry at that time.

In 2018, Ovitz told CBNC that sexual harassment was around Hollywood “since its creation”.

“This whole concept has always existed and it has always been swept under the carpet,” he said.

According to a file from the Los Angeles Superior Court, Ormond lawyers filed a notice of deposit on May 29, ordering Ovitz to appear on June 12. Ovitz did not respond and did not appear at the time and place for the testimony.

The file requires an order from the court forcing him to testify in the case.

Ormond continued Weinstein, Miramax, Disney and CAA in 2023. Earlier this year, she concluded a settlement with Disney and Miramax, who were excused from the case.

Ormond alleges that his CAA agents, Kevin Huvane and Bryan Lourd, did not warn him of the history of sexual assault of Weinstein before she dinner with him in New York in December 1995. After dinner, that she thought she was a business meeting, Weinstein brought her back to a Miramax apartment in Soho and sexually the assault, according to her.

In a file in June, the CAA said that the testimony of deposit shows that Normond was already aware of the history of Weinstein before the meeting, because he had already harassed him sexually. Ormond had also been warned of Weinstein by his British agent before meeting him in 1994.

Ormond alleys that after the incident, his CAA agents sought to dissuade it from reporting it – an accusation of CAA also denies. Ormond alleged that his career has dried up following the incident and maintained in the trial she has faced reprisals from Weinstein.

His lawyers are looking for Ovitz’s testimony and all the documents he may have reflected correspondence with Weinstein or the consciousness of Weinstein’s sexual misconduct.