David Glasser, who was fired last Friday from his post as president and COO of The Weinstein Company, has hired a Los Angeles law firm and plans to file an $85 million-plus lawsuit against the company and its board.
Glasser has retained law firm Sauer & Wagner to file the suit against the company and its remaining board members — Bob Weinstein, Lance Maerov and Tarak Ben Ammar — for wrongful termination, retaliation, breach of contract and defamation.
The lawsuit will seek damages in excess of $85 million.
“My client’s sudden termination was nothing more than a desperate attempt to deflect attention away from the very people who were empowered to halt Harvey Weinstein’s abusive behavior — Chairman Bob Weinstein and the two other members of the TWC Board of Directors,” said Eve Wagner, a founding partner of Sauer & Wagner LLP, in a statement.