HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE {Part 1}

The Talent Agency Business and Antitrust Price-Fixing:

A Historical Record of the Rise and Fall of TV Packaging

a Charles Lenhoff Journal

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Herein attached are the Exhibits referenced in the historic Journal detailing how a few Hollywood Talent Agencies transformed to four “UBER AGENCIES” and monopolized the TV Packaging marketplace in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act…

Exhibit-2a-Labor-Commissioner-packaging-letters
Exhibit 2b – WGA Franchise Agreement 1976
Exhibit 2c – DGA ATA 1977 Franchise Agreement & Rider D
Exhibit 2d – ICM Fires 4 Top Agents Who Planned to Form Rival Agency
Exhibit 2e – Gavin Polone on TV_s Dirty Secret
Exhibit 2f – Meredith Stiehm_s packaging deadline article
Exhibit 2g – Variety TV Packages Agents share joint custody 6-9-1997
Exhibit 2h – California State Senate Select Committee on Regulation of Talent Agents 9-28-2001
Exhibit 2i – SAG Rule 16(g)
Exhibit 2j – Lenhoff ATA proposal to adopt a Professional Ethics Canon 2006
Exhibit 2k- Lenhoff 1st Interference Notice to UTA
Exhibit-2l-TV-Agents-Smackdown-Four-Top-Sharks
Exhibit 3a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Complaint Filed 2-13-2015
Exhibit 3b – 2001-2002 Scripted Series Packaging Drivers Pie Chart
Exhibit 3c – 2014-2015 Scripted Series Packaging Drivers Pie Chart
Exhibit 4a – UTA & ICM Motion To Dismiss Filed 8-10-2015
Exhibit 5a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Third Amended Complaint Filed 1-22-2016
Exhibit 5b – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Third Amended Complaint Exhibits Filed 1-22-2016
Exhibit 5c – ICM Motion to Dismiss TAC 2-12-2016
Exhibit 5d – UTA letter to Kaplan Blecher re Rule 11 2-5-2016
Exhibit 5e- Kaplan reply to Rule 11 threat 2-8-16
Exhibit 6a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Third Amended Complaint Dismissal Filed 4-20-2016
Exhibit 7a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Motion To Reconsider filed 5-2-2016
Exhibit 7b – Dr. Hunt Declaration March 21, 2016
Exhibit 7c – Dr. Hunt Lenhoff Analysis
Exhibit 8a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Motion To Reconsider Denial filed 6-13-2016
Exhibit 9a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Appeal filed 1-17-2017
Exhibit 9b – ICM Appeal Answering Brief 3-20-2017
Exhibit 10a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Federal Appeal Oral Arguments Transcript
Exhibit 10b – Variety – writers guild accuses talent agencies 3-15-2018
Exhibit 11a – Lenhoff v UTA & ICM Appeal Denial 3-30-2018
Exhibit 12a – WGA Franchise Agreement Termination letter to ATA 4-6-2018
Exhibit 12b – ATA Proposal to WGA 3-21-2019
Exhibit 12c- WGA proposed Code of Conduct for Agents 3-27-2019
Exhibit 12d- WGA membership notice for Franchise Agreement expiration and Agency termination 4-12-2019
Exhibit 12e – WGA notice to members on firing their agent 4-12-2019
Exhibit 12f – WGA v WME, CAA, UTA & ICM complaint filed 4-17-19
Exhibit 13a – WME v WGA Antitrust Complaint filed 6-24-19
EXHIBIT-13b-WGA-letter-to-ATA-6-28-19
Exhibit 14a – UTA v WGA Answer and Counterclaim filed 8-19-2019
Exhibit 14b – WME v WGA Answer and Counterclaim filed 9-9 2019
Exhibit 15a – WME v WGA hearing transcript 12-6-2019
Exhibit 15b -WME v WGA hearing transcript 1-24-2020
Exhibit 16a – WME v WGA Motion to Dismiss Antitrust claim denied 1-20-2020
Exhibit 17a – WME v WGA 12b6 Motion to Dismiss Denied filed 4-27-2020
Exhibit 17b – General Materials Packaging Agreement
Exhibit 18a – Dokoza drop letter
Exhibit 18b – DOKOZA – LENHOFF 11-3-2014 MEETING CONTEMPORANEOUS NOTES
Exhibit 18c – Dokoza email to Ryan Robo Dial Tracy 11-4-14
Exhibit 18d – California Labor Code 1700-25
Exhibit-18e – Dokoza-v-Lenhoff-LASC-cross-complaint
Exhibit 18f -Dokoza attempted smear The Hollowood Reporter article 12-3-15
Exhibit 18g – Dokoza Deposition Transcript
Exhibit 18h – Dokoza DGA term and issues memo to John 552016
Exhibit 18i – Dokoza Timeline of Litigation
Exhibit 19a – Antitrust Argument – Lenhoff v. UTA – Economic Viewpoint11-19-2016
Exhibit 19b – Packaging Fee Paper-Singer Tatos_v3
Exhibit 20a – Michael Pick vs ICM
Exhibit 20b – Monacella v ICM
Exhibit 20c1 UTA v Poppy Mongomery
Exhibit 20c2 UTA v Poppy Mongomery
Exhibit 20c3 UTA v Poppy Mongomery
Exhibit 20d – Seidman vs WME
Exhibit 20e -UTA vs Forman
Exhibit 20f- WME v scripps
Exhibit 20g – Musero vs CAA
Exhibit 20h – Roseanne Arnold vs. Triad Artist Inc.
Exhibit 20i – Paradigm Talent Agency vs. Charles Carroll, an individual & Kayenta Productions, Inc.
Exhibit 20j – Stein Agency v James Tripp Haith
Exhibit 20k – Burt Bluestein aka Burton Ira Bluestein v Prod Arts mgmt et al
Exhibit 20l – Scott Montoya, Payaso Entertainment Inc. vs. David Shapira & Associates
Exhibit 20m -Lessa v Filmtrix before the DLSE
Exhibit 20n – CAA Frank Darabont v AMC-Motion
Exhibit 20o – CAA vs UTA
Exhibit 20p – Cobb Theatres vs AMC