| Gross Sues HBO After Ouster
From Crash Show Destroyed His Career He Tells
SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 14 – Abraham Gross was not
only an extra or background
actor on HBO's show Crash - he
was also a stand-in. But his
direct supervisor, Nicole
Payson, "took humiliating
pictures of Gross doing his
job, publicly mocked him for
being serious about his job -
and got him fired.
He
sued.
On October
14 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Stewart D.
Aaron held a proceeding. Inner
City Press covered
it.
Gross asked for
two minutes to summarize the
case.
Magistrate Judge
Wang said substantive
decisions in the case will be
made by District Judge Analisa
Torres, but that of course
Gross could be heard. And he
was.
He
explained that to be a
stand-in is a break, and that
the firing has destroyed his
career.
He says he has
been blacklisted. "In this
industry, being falsely
accused of insubordination is
a death blow" - at least at a
certain level.
Gross'
opposition to the motion to
dismiss is now due November
20.
The case is Gross
v. HBO West Coast Programming
LLC et al., 20-cv-2675 (Torres
/ Wang)
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