Julia Ormond is asking a court docket to implement a subpoena towards CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz, after he skipped a seen deposition in June.

Ormond is suing the company for allegedly setting her as much as be sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein in December 1995 — a cost the company has adamantly denied.

Ovitz left the company to take the number-two job at Disney in August 1995. Ormond’s attorneys need to query him in regards to the company’s ties to Weinstein and about feedback he has made relating to sexual harassment within the trade in that period.

In 2018, Ovitz instructed CBNC that sexual harassment had been round Hollywood “since its inception.”

“This entire idea has been round without end and it’s all the time been swept beneath the rug,” he stated.

In line with a submitting in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, Ormond’s attorneys filed a deposition discover on Might 29, ordering Ovitz to look on June 12. Ovitz didn’t reply and didn’t seem on the appointed time and place for the deposition.

The submitting seeks a court docket order compelling him to provide testimony within the case.

Ormond sued Weinstein, Miramax, Disney and CAA in 2023. Earlier this yr, she reached a settlement with Disney and Miramax, who’ve been excused from the case.

Ormond alleges that her CAA brokers, Kevin Huvane and Bryan Lourd, didn’t warn her of Weinstein’s historical past of sexual assault earlier than she had dinner with him in New York in December 1995. After the dinner, which she thought was to be a enterprise assembly, Weinstein introduced her again to a Miramax residence in Soho and sexually assaulted her, in line with her criticism.

In a submitting in June, CAA said that deposition testimony exhibits that Ormond was already conscious of Weinstein’s historical past previous to the assembly, as a result of he had already sexually harassed her. Ormond had additionally been warned about Weinstein by her U.Ok. agent earlier than first assembly him in 1994.

Ormond alleges that after the incident, her CAA brokers sought to dissuade her from reporting it — a cost CAA additionally denies. Ormond alleges that her profession dried up following the incident, and maintains within the lawsuit that she confronted retaliation from Weinstein.

Her attorneys are searching for Ovitz’s testimony in addition to any paperwork he might have reflecting correspondence with Weinstein or consciousness of Weinstein’s sexual misconduct.