#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz?

I always told our agents, make your clients think they're your friends. But remember that they're not. Yet it would be my clients who would stay loyal for the most part. And my friends who would betray me. Jay Maloney.

The agent I thought of as a son and as my eventual successor would join the agency's posse of young Turks who disowned me after I left CAA. Michael Eisner. My great friend friend who ran Disney. would hire me as his number two.

Then publicly humiliate me and fire me after fourteen months. And Ron Meyer The blood brother I started CAA with would leave to take a big job at Universal after I'd negotiated for both of us to go there. And then disparage me all over town for twenty years. I made it my life's work.

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