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[richiek]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/b...roils-isaac-perlmutter-marvel-chief.html?_r=1

Now you can add a bizarre litigation involving Isaac Perlmutter, the enigmatic billionaire chief executive of the Marvel Entertainment unit of the Walt Disney Company.

Befitting a Palm Beach imbroglio, the dispute began over a local tennis pro. Now, at least three lawsuits later, a neighbor of Mr. Perlmutter has accused him and his wife of sending slanderous letters, unsigned, that say the neighbor “sexually assaulted” an 11-year-old “at knife-point” and murdered a local couple.

The hate-mail campaign, which included more than a thousand letters sent to the neighbor’s friends and business associates, is said to be part of an effort by Mr. Perlmutter to pressure the neighbor, Harold Peerenboom, to leave the gated community where they both own homes. One of the letters started, “Today I write you to warn you about Harold Peerenboom of 8 Sloans Curve Road who is a sexual predator.”

Mr. Peerenboom, who has never been accused of these crimes, is now trying to compel Marvel to produce Mr. Perlmutter’s emails.

A spokesman for Marvel declined to comment, saying it does not discuss personal matters involving Mr. Perlmutter.

Jeez, what the fuck is wrong with this guy.

 

[BronsonLee]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/b...roils-isaac-perlmutter-marvel-chief.html?_r=1



Jeez, what the fuck is wrong with this guy.

Allegedly.

 

[Stinkles]

Perlmutter took over Coleco after the console crash.
Themoreyoknow

 

[HStallion]

No hard evidence but the talk about this guy has never been positive unless its involving making money and even then things have been suspect.

 

[blackjaw]

Next on "Real House Husbands of Palm Beach"

 

[Jag]

Even more incredible given the exposure of entertainment.

The last public photograph of Mr. Perlmutter was taken in 1985, despite his being Marvel’s chief executive and one of Disney’s largest individual shareholders. He has never given an interview to the media while running Marvel, despite the Disney unit’s influence over American entertainment with its Iron Man, Captain America and X-Men franchises.

I'm guessing the X-Men part is a mistake.

Edit to add:

Last week, Marvel produced some emails, but Mr. Kasowitz said that many others have not been turned over and contended that Mr. Perlmutter was asserting “attorney-client privilege over hundreds of additional responsive emails — even though he claimed to have no control over the Marvel emails in the first place.”

To unpack that. Responsive means it is relevant to the case, ie mentions Pereenboom. And I don't think he'll win on privilege unless he copied counsel and it was in the scope of a pending or existing dispute on all those emails.