CAA Finally Goes After “Unlawful” Range Media For Stealing Confidential Agency Material, Being A Talent Agency In All But Name

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EXCLUSIVE: CAA and Range Media are already in arbitration over equity the latter cancelled for the agents who made up the 2020 formed latter, but now the Bryan Lourd-led uberagency is after the  Dave Bugliari, Peter Micelli, and Jack Whigham created management company for alleged theft and some big bucks. “Range is an unlicensed talent agency built on deceit,” exclaims the four-claim complaint filed on September 30 in Los Angeles Superior Court. “Seeking a shortcut to success, Range’s initial founder, Peter Micelli (a former CAA literary agent and CAA member) found four highly paid CAA leaders to act as his accomplices: posing as loyal CAA members, sitting shoulder to shoulder in confidential CAA meetings about clients and business, all the while covertly working to benefit Range and themselves, and to harm CAA,” the unspecified but big buck seeking suit goes on to say. Read CAA’s four-claim lawsuit against Range Media here “Put simply, Range’s business model is the pursuit of unlawful profit through deception: Range skirts rules that California legislator and artists’ guilds put in place to protect those working in the entertainment industry,” the filing adds. “The core ‘trick’ of Range is that it acts as a talent agency, but labels itself a management company.

Range therefore engages in lucrative transactions foreclosed to law-abiding talent agencies.” A.K.A. – that would be us, CAA.

If the agency’s attorney’s words in the 28-page filing weren’t clear enough, the lawyers doubled down outside the docket. “CAA is prepared to prove that Range Media was formed through dishonest conduct and, as reflected in other public, pending legal proceedings about Range’s failure to comply with arbitration subpoenas, has