Juliet Landau Instagram – Hollywood Reporter article 2013: Former SAG President Ed Asner filed a lawsuit targeting 2 top SAG Staffers including Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.
“A recent lawsuit filed against SAG-AFTRA by disgruntled members is structured as a direct attack on national executive director David White and chief administrative officer and general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, according to a copy of the suit obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.”
“The instant action was filed because SAG-AFTRA has resisted all efforts to obtain accountability and transparency in Union finances,” the plaintiffs’ attorney Helena Sunny Wise told THR in an email. In that context, White and/or Crabtree-Ireland are portrayed as motivating forces behind an array of alleged improper practices relating to foreign royalties and residuals and are mentioned 49 times in the 52-page page document.”
“The thrust of the complaint is that the union has operated its foreign royalties program incompetently and in a manner designed to improperly funnel money into the union’s general fund.”
Another claim in the case is similar to the language in this 2023 draft. Claim: “Failure to Locate People who are Allegedly Easy to Locate. The complaint asserts that SAG-AFTRA retains residuals owed to people who are easy to locate: “SAG (sic) leadership, including CRABTREE-IRELAND has sought to justify the burgeoning retention of Residuals on the premise that SAG cannot locate the heirs or estates of such well known entertainment and/or political icons as Frank Sinatra, John F. Kennedy, Larry Hagman or Sonny Bono, while lacking the ability to send checks owing to the parents of television personality Anderson Cooper, including his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, or his now deceased father, Wyatt Cooper, let alone Ed Asner’s son, Matthew Asner who is now the Southern California Executive Director of Autism Speaks.”
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/anti-sag-aftra-lawsuit-raises-564256/ | Posted on 04/Dec/2023 11:47:05
