“Morally Corrupt” CAA Sued By Sage Steele In Ongoing Vaccine Mandate Fallout; Filing Alleges Agency Sold Out Ex-ESPN Host For Bigger Deals

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If Sage Steele ever does drop by, it’s going to be pretty awkward the next time the former ESPN host goes to visit CAA. With a wide ranging damages seeking complaint filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court against the agency, that’s part of the blast radius of accusing your reps of lying to you and tossing you under the bus for bigger deals.

Even though Steele made her controversy inducing comment’s about ESPN and Disney’s Covid vaccine mandate policy and former President Barack Obama’s biracial identity almost three years ago, this is also the consequence of the ex-co-host of the noon SportsCenter wanting to be rid of CAA, but the uber-agency not letting her go.

No matter how you cut it, with Steele’s lawyers calling CAA “morally corrupt …routinely” and tossing everyone from Harvey Weinstein, Terrance Howard, Cold Case EP and WAA exec Meredith Stiehm, and The Wire creator David Simon into the matter, it’s messy. “As this Complaint will allege, award-winning ESPN on-air talent Sage Steele sought professional and legal advice from CAA at a time she was being persecuted for exercising her First Amendment rights,” the jury trial seeking filing says (read it here). “Rather than advocate for her or guide her to seek appropriate legal counsel, CAA immediately sided with ESPN and its parent company Disney and sacrificed her so it could continue to reap the benefits from its profitable relationship with the companies,” the breach of fiduciary duty and two claims of declaratory judgment document adds, naming Steele’s agent and CAA’s sports media group co-head Matthew Kramer specifically. “As Kramer, Steele’s agent at the time, recently testified under oath, he made no attempt whatsoever to stand up to the demand that Steele