March 17, 2023
A suit claiming a former NBC executive duped a filmmaker into starting a project about O.J. Simpson without funding was dismissed Friday by a Manhattan federal judge, who said the latest complaint still fails to show there was a fiduciary relationship between the two men or that any statements by the executive were misleading.
January 21, 2022
A British filmmaker hit NBCUniversal and ex-NBC executive Ronald Meyer with a $150 million lawsuit Thursday, accusing Meyer of fraudulently inducing him to begin filming an O.J. Simpson movie based on false promises that he'd secure funding when Meyer was actually using the project to cover up sexual abuse allegations.