Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon Hire a Top Hollywood Lawyer

Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, freshly ousted from their perches at prime cable networks, have employed the identical powerhouse lawyer to navigate their exits.

The distinguished Hollywood lawyer, Bryan Freedman, has a monitor document of getting multimillion-dollar settlements for TV stars and different celebrities. He represents Chris Cuomo, the previous AE Daily News anchor who’s in search of $125 million for wrongful termination after the community fired him in 2021, and secured a payout of Megyn Kelly’s full contract when she left NBC.

The news that each Mr. Carlson, till just lately Fox’s top-rated prime time star, and Mr. Lemon, till just lately one among AE Daily News’s morning hosts, had retained Mr. Freedman portended potential fights forward.

Mr. Freedman declined to remark.

Mr. Freedman, who relies in Los Angeles, based the legislation agency Freedman and Taitelman with Michael Taitelman in 1997. He grew to become often called an aggressive litigator, representing high-profile shoppers within the leisure trade, together with Quentin Tarantino, Julia Roberts, Mariah Carey, Seth Rogen and Gabrielle Union.

In latest years, he has represented axed TV hosts together with Mike Richards, a former government producer of “Jeopardy!,” and Chris Harrison of “The Bachelor.”

He additionally represented Michael Jackson’s property in a $100 million struggle towards the HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland,” which was gained on enchantment.

For the previous 14 years, Mr. Freedman has been included in The Hollywood Reporter’s annual listing of the leisure trade’s prime 100 legal professionals. In 2022, he mentioned to the publication: “How do employers police their own? What kind of due process is there?”

Mr. Freedman was accused of sexual assault within the Nineteen Eighties whereas he was a college pupil and finally settled the case for $40,000 with out admitting legal responsibility, based on court docket paperwork. Insider earlier reported the swimsuit and settlement.