Former CAA agent Adam Berkowitz was fired over an incident in which he allegedly groped a top executive at J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions.
According to an individual with knowledge of the situtation, Berkowitz is said to have grabbed the crotch of Bad Robot’s head of TV, Ben Stephenson, at the Governors’ Ball last Monday after the Emmy Awards ceremony. CAA reps Bad Robot, who were at the Emmys in support of their HBO drama “Westworld.”
Both CAA and reps for Berkowitz declined to comment.
As Variety exclusively reported, Berkowtiz was unexpectedly let go from the agency after over 20 years on Monday. He served as CAA’s co-head of television, where his client list included top TV writers like Beau Willimon, Greg Garcia, and Kenya Barris. He was previously a long-time employee of the William Morris Agency, where he started out in the mailroom while taking law school classes at night. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1995 and joined CAA in 1997.
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