Since 2017, nearly a dozen women reported allegations of mistreatment by male agents and managers company wide to ICM Partners’ human resources department or senior leaders, according to interviews with the women and those with direct knowledge of the incidents.”.

The agency gave specific denials on most of the allegations made against numerous agents.

Alexander denied the incident to the newspaper, and the Times doesn’t note any comment from the agency; attempts by Deadline to verify have been unavailing so far.

Hussey reported the incident to superiors and apologized to the unnamed client, who is still with the agency.

ICM declined to comment to the LAT on the incident, though the agency cited its anti-harassment policies throughout the article.

There also are allegations of bullying toward low-level assistants — the same low-paid group who bore the brunt of abuse from producer Scott Rudin, per recent reports — from agents ranging from Carter Cohn and Mitch Blackman to Craig Shapiro and Mark Gordon, the latter of whom left the agency in 2016.

But Lorrie Bartlett, who in 2019 became the first Black board member at a major agency, made a statement with fellow female board members that any insinuation that the company’s 50/50 by 2020 pledge “was an insincere marketing ploy is utterly irreconcilable with both the facts and our personal experience.”.

“We’ve all chosen to build our careers at ICM specifically for the chance to work with some of the preeminent and most accomplished women in our field – women including Toni Howard, Binky Urban and Esther Newberg – who have over 100 years of combined tenure here, and all of whom continue to thrive in our agency: they are the gold standards the rest of us emulate.

We were all part of the board – along with Chris Silbermann, Ted Chervin, Kevin Crotty, Sloan Harris, Eddy Yablans, Adam Schweitzer, Steve Levine and Esther Newberg – that made that commitment in earnest; we have worked together and with our partners across the agency to ensure that we not only fulfilled but exceeded it; and doing so inspired us to further embrace the broad spirit and practice of inclusiveness it stood for.