"He
came to me and basically told me if I went to his house and had sex
with him, I could be moved up high at Relativity," says one of
the women.
Veteran
Hollywood executive and producer Adam Fields sexually harassed women
while he was serving in various capacities at Relativity Media from
2010 to 2016, according to multiple people who shared their accounts
with The
Hollywood Reporter.
Three
women — a lawyer, a prominent screenwriter and a junior executive —
told similar stories that include being touched inappropriately,
sexually propositioned and subjected to lewd behavior by the onetime
co-president of production.
THR also
has viewed several legal documents stemming from a
lawsuit filed
by Fields against former CEO Ryan Kavanaugh in January. The documents
reference two assistants who are not among the people THR spoke
with and who complained internally about being sexually harassed by
Fields during his five-month stint as Relativity co-president.
The
conduct described in the documents ranged from unwanted touching to
inappropriate sexual comments to streaming X-rated material on his
phone in public areas of the company's Beverly Hills offices.
According to the documents, one major talent agency said it would no
longer work with Fields at the time.
Unlike
most of the other sexual harassment claims sweeping Hollywood over
the past month, these allegations come at a time when the accused and
his former employer are locked in ongoing litigation, which Fields'
lawyer Dale Kinsella referenced in response to the claims. However,
of the three women THR talked
to, only one is involved in that suit.
It
was on the 2010 set of Limitless that
screenwriter and producer Leslie Dixon says she endured Fields'
aggressive overtures. Fields, 62, whose film credits date back to
1981's Endless
Love and
include producing Great
Balls of Fire! and,
more recently, The
Wedding Ringer,
had been hired by Relativity to run production on the Bradley Cooper
starrer.
It
started with Fields' unsolicited touching, says Dixon, which she
tried to deflect, followed by lascivious remarks. One day, with
multiple witnesses on hand, Fields suggested that Dixon needed a sex
toy.
She immediately walked off the Times Square set, called her CAA
agent and lawyer and complained, she says. Her agent was able to
insulate Dixon from further contact with Fields on the set.
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