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Gabrielle Union Files Discrimination Complaint Against ‘AGT’ Producers, Says NBC Chief Paul Telegdy Threatened Her Over Whistleblowing - Variety
Jun 04, 2020 1 min, 38 secs

Gabrielle Union filed a harassment complaint Thursday in the state of California against the producers and network behind “America’s Got Talent.” In addition to the complaint, she raised a new accusation that NBC Entertainment Chairman Paul Telegdy threatened her over speaking out against racism on set.

Union, through power attorney Bryan Freedman, filed the complaint with California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), naming producers FremantleMedia and Simon Cowell’s Syco as well as NBCUniversal.

In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal said “the allegation that anyone involved in this process threatened Ms.

“It’s very telling that NBC fails to substantively address the DFEH complaint that Ms.

Union filed based on racial discrimination.  Instead, NBC wants to try and play word games by saying that their Chairman Paul Telegdy did not directly threaten Gabrielle Union.

NBC of course ignores Paragraph 5 of the DFEH complaint which specifically states: On or about February 4, 2020, Telegdy threatened Union through her agent and warned Union’s agent that Union had better cease from pursuing her claims of racism while filming AGT.  To hide behind the fact that Telegdy did not call her directly but her agent instead does not absolve him from his wrongful conduct.

Union is a client of CAA, though it was not immediately clear which agent Telegdy might have spoken with.

“When Gabrielle Union informed NBC of racially offensive conduct during the taping of ‘America’s Got Talent,’ NBC did not ‘stand’ with her in ‘outrage at acts of racism,'” Freedman said, invoking the company’s recent support of #BlackLivesMatter.  “Instead, NBC did not care enough to either promptly investigate Ms.

Freedman continued that “in sharp contrast to NBC’s recent statement on race, what was truly an “outrage” was the fact that Paul Telegdy, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, actually threatened Ms?

It starts from the top down,” Union said last week

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