Litigator Patty Glaser promised last month Jeff Shell would “strongly respond” to threats legal and otherwise from a pro-gambler over potentially insider information and leaked data, and today the Paramount president has done just that.
As Shell puts his cards on the table in a counterclaim just filed against R.J. Cipriani in LA Superior Court, the latter could be about to hit Paramount owner David Ellison, his father Larry Ellison, financier RedBird Capital Partners and a handful of studio executives, including Shell and his wife Laura, with a new court action.
Insisting he is the injured party, Cipriani is poised to file a big bucks breach of oral contract and fraud against the billionaire Ellisons, the Shells, Gerry Cardinale, RCP itself, Andy Gordon and Paramount Skydance Corporation itself. A draft copy has been floating around for the last few days. Drawn up by attorney Steven J. Aaronoff, the self-declared “unlimited
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