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Executive at top Hollywood lobbying firm arrested for rape, blackmail
2019-08-28
[NYPOST] An executive at Hollywood’s top lobbying firm has been busted for allegedly raping and blackmailing a woman he met on a sugar daddy dating site, according to reports.

Steven Fabrizio was fired on Monday as general counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America, a trade group that represents five major film studios and Netflix, Variety reported.

The attorney, who was arrested Friday in Washington, DC, is accused of threatening the woman after paying her $400 for consensual sex on Aug. 19. She told him she didn’t want to see him again ‐ and that’s when he allegedly began blackmailing her via text message.

"I know where you live," he allegedly told her, according to a police affidavit obtained by Variety. "I know where you work. Don’t think ‐ Hospital would be happy to know that it’s young nurses are having sexual for money / Same for your landlord."

Fabrizio allegedly forced the woman into meeting a second time and having sex.

The victim called police when he sent her more texts threatening to out her to her parents if she didn’t agree to have sex with him a couple times a month.

Fabrizio was arrested Friday morning outside the woman’s apartment after setting up another tryst with her.

MPAA chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin broke the news of Fabrizio’s termination in an email to board members Monday morning. He said the lawyer was fired "for violating certain terms of employment" and named an interim replacement.
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Posted by:Fred

#4  Hollywood being morally disgusting.

Known and reported on since the 1920s. Not just the casting couch, but lurid descriptions of wild parties go back to the earliest days. It sounds a dreadful place, full of vile people granted unrestricted power by those who’ll do anything to be among the kool kids of show business.

It’s good that at least a few of them are suffering a little bit for it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-08-28 17:24  

#3  How is what this vermin did any different from the standard, ubiquitous Hollywood extortion technique that ends in, "Do [x] or you'll never work in this town again"?
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-28 10:27  

#2  They're just SO used to behaving like this.

It's very gratifying to know we were right all along about Hollywood being morally disgusting.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-08-28 04:15  

#1  Fabrizio's defense will be that he was upholding long established Hollywood tradition.
Posted by: Titus Glugum7307   2019-08-28 01:13  

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