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Monday, January 14, 2008

Will an Alycia suit be best served cold?

AFTER ALYCIA LANE was fired a week ago, all signs indicated a wrongful termination lawsuit against CBS3 was forthcoming from her attorney Paul Rosen.

Rosen, of Spector, Gadon, and Rosen, issued a statement calling Lane's termination an "unusual and unwarranted step" as she had not been convicted of any wrongdoing nor had she yet been able to speak publicly about the allegations. Of course, she could speak publicly, but her lawyers don't want her to.

Is Rosen's delay in filing at the request of New York criminal attorney David Smith? Smith, who has repped Nicole Richie and Lizzie Grubman, offered no comment the other day when we asked whether he had advised Lane to hold off on a civil suit against CBS3 pending the outcome of her New York criminal matter which is listed for an April 3 hearing date.

"The shoe will definitely drop," Rosen told us for today's column  "However, I do not think it appropriate to tell the press in advance the strategy of what I plan to do, or when I plan to do it."

Lane's charged with a felony count of assault for allegedly striking a female NYPD officer during a dispute on Dec. 16 between passengers of a cab in which Lane was riding and a car that contained three plainclothes officers. Through Smith, Lane has denied striking the officer or calling her a "f---ing dyke," as the police report alleges.

We reached Lane's television agent, Gregg Willinger, also part of her team of people interested in a prompt and positive outcome of her criminal case, to ask whether he was shopping her for jobs in other markets, or whether he would wait until her case was resolved.

"You would probably be the last person in the world who I would want to tell that to," he said.

 

 

 
Posted by Dan Gross @ 8:22 AM  Permalink | File Under: Court Stuff | 14 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:28 AM, 01/14/2008
    Stop Hazing Gregg Willinger. He has his hands full with lane and did you know Rob Guarino is also his baby too? He is batting 0-2 in philly right now.
    — Buck
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:42 AM, 01/14/2008
    She thinks she is better than everyone, like most press people, they belive they are doing something important, rather than just repeating what they find out.
    — philly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:56 AM, 01/14/2008
    Gregg Willinger is going through hard times Dan. He also reps Robbie G formerly of fox29. And we all know how that job search is working out.
    — Buck
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:11 AM, 01/14/2008
    All signs indicate that... Dan is running out of material!
    — Bob
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:14 AM, 01/14/2008
    She is getting old, and all the alcohol and sex isnt going to make her any younger, she will die eventually like Jessica Savitch is a drunken sex filled stupor of stupidity
    — BRIAN
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:22 AM, 01/14/2008
    i want to be a weatherperson you can just be wrong all the time and its ok..
    — Kristen Mc.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:06 PM, 01/14/2008
    Running out of material? He got that agent dude to acknowledge that he is a feared gossip wag (which means I read to the end before realizing I had been duped again into clicking for an Alycia fix).
    — Delivery
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:23 PM, 01/14/2008
    If she's going to sue for breach of contract/wrongful termination, then she'll have to make and document attempts to mitigate her damages. To do that, she'd have to go job hunting. Maybe she can get a job doing books on CD. You know, where her ability to read without thinking would possibly work for her.
    — Sinmbile
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:41 PM, 01/14/2008
    Poor Dan Still got a thing for her to keep reporting on her...LET IT GO....Find someone else to bother
    — Eva
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:25 PM, 01/14/2008
    NBC10, 6ABC, or Fox 29 should all be fighting to hire Alycia. Putting her back on the air would make their ratings go through the roof. CBS3 fumbled the ball by firing her. More veiwers would have been tuning in to see her.
    — Edward
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:50 PM, 01/14/2008
    Consider your Alycia Lane lawsuit!
    — manhattansteve
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:08 PM, 01/14/2008
    With all of the negative attention, she will soon shave her head.
    — J. Timberlake
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:39 AM, 01/15/2008
    Please keep us updated when the radio station decides to fire Booker!!!
    — Maeve
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:19 PM, 01/15/2008
    i hope another local station will hire !!!!! ill stillw atch her liked her work alot !!!!
    — chris


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