“He further told me that if certain communications and documents were revealed, I would face serious repercussions, including being sued by him or others,” says Brittle.ĭeRosa-Grund on Wednesday sent The Hollywood Reporter a statement, which is posted in full below, alleging the claims are designed to deflect attention away from THR‘s story about Penney. New Line is currently seeking sanctions against DeRosa-Grund in a Texas litigation for not cooperating with discovery requests.īrittle also claims DeRosa-Grund told the author not to turn over certain emails to his own lawyers.
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DeRosa-Grund that I was the client, and needed to approve discovery responses, Mr. DeRosa-Grund and my attorney, I understand that he even threatened my attorneys that if they sent information from me without him seeing it first they would be fired,” says Brittle in the declaration. “Based on a review of text messages between Mr. In a declaration filed Friday, the author says Conjuring producer Tony DeRosa-Grund “has been controlling this litigation from the start.” DeRosa-Grund has been locked in his own ugly legal battle with Warners for years.īrittle says the producer was actively involved in his case, including hiring lawyers, funding the litigation, drafting the complaints, responding to discovery and instructing attorneys not to produce documents. Now, it seems, Brittle is claiming he wasn’t in control of his own lawsuit - and the person he says was behind the action is the same one who emailed studio execs in 2013 claiming the Warrens were hiding Ed’s decades-long affair with a woman named Judy Penney that began when she was 15 years old. Brittle, and the parties are working to resolve those claims as well.” Brittle ‘realizes that filing this lawsuit was a mistake, and that New Line has no liability and did nothing wrong.’ New Line has remaining counterclaims against Mr. Brittle has agreed to dismiss his lawsuit against New Line and its affiliates with prejudice, as the parties announced on the record in open court last week. Brittle and New Line on Wednesday released this joint statement: “Mr.
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