Gay Mafia
While the Gay Mafia seems to neither be entirely gay, or affiliated with organized crime, this organization was identified by Michael Ovitz in an interview he gave to Vanity Fair in 2002.
The ring leaders in the Gay Mafia were identified as DreamWorks SKG co-founder David Geffen, former New York Times reporter Bernard Weintraub, various former employees of Ovitz at Creative Artists Agency such as CAA co-founder and now Universal Studios President Ron Meyer, and even Disney President Michael Eisner. Then chairman of Vivendi Universal Entertainment Barry Diller was also indirectly linked to the group.
- "I know how hard it is for people to see me as a victim," Ovitz was quoted as saying, "but in this case it's pretty close to the truth."
The purported objective of this organization was to make sure that Ovitz "never worked in this town again" as the Hollywood saying goes.
There were rumors that a short parody film based on the 1972 Godfather was made and given to Geffen and Diller as a private gift. It centered on the restaurant scene where Michael Corelone kills Sollozzo and Police Captain McCluskey, but in the parody film "Michael" is played by Eisner and Ovitz and Steven Seagal are killed. It is supposedly very humorous (in the film Ovitz recommends Seagal have the veal, then instructs the waiter in Italian to bring Seagal nachos; Seagal wolfs down the nachos declaring it's the best veal he has ever had). This film has never been released.
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