*Being the great actor that he is, Morgan Freeman is putting that skill to work for himself because his job literally requires him to act as if his personal life is all “hunky dory” when of course it isn’t as he’s dealing with multiple sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Um, er, all to say that Freeman is back at work. He was spotted in Savannah, Georgia on the set of “Poison Rose,”an upcoming thriller he stars in with John Travolta and Kat Graham.
As we reported, it was last week that CNN published an explosive exposé on the Oscar winner that featured numerous allegations from several women accusing Freeman of sexually inappropriate behavior on set, at work and during press engagements.
The Blast published an audio recording of one such press engagement where Freeman can be heard commenting several times on the physical appearance of a reporter. In a departure from the accusers in the CNN piece, the reporter said she had no qualms with the actor’s comments.
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Meanwhile, the Daily Beast is reporting that CNN’s legal team on Thursday had no problem telling Freeman that the network isn’t afraid to go to court with him, following the actor’s attempts to poke holes in the network’s report alleging he harassed at least eight women throughout his career.
On Tuesday, Freeman’s attorney Robert Schwartz asked CNN president Jeff Zucker to retract the network’s bombshell report, arguing that its author was biased against Freeman and that witnesses had been “baited and prodded” into making negative statements about the actor.
In a letter to the Freeman’s attorney on Thursday, CNN senior VP of legal David Vigilante pushed back against the actor’s camp’s claims that the network’s reporting was flawed, saying CNN doesn’t fear a court battle because of California’s strong “anti-SLAAP” law against suits aimed at burdening critics with legal costs until they bow out.
“This law requires an award of attorney’s fees to the prevailing defendant. CNN has successfully pursued this remedy in the past, and will not hesitate to do so here,” Vigilante said.
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