Man, CAA really fired back at Julia Ormond, the British actress who sued the agency yesterday claiming her reps in the ’90s not only knew Harvey Weinstein was a predator when they sent her alone into meetings with him, but actively discouraged her from reporting the inevitable gruesome assault by the now-convicted rapist. Along with a blanket denial, the agency revealed publicly that Ormond’s lawyers wanted $15 million to settle, which CAA “immediately rejected,” and hired the Paul Weiss law firm, a veteran of #MeToo work for Fox News and others, which conducted an “investigation” that found “nothing to support Ms. Ormond’s claims against CAA.” Okay, then! Please disperse, nothing to see here, right?

Today I ran that statement by Kevin Mintzer, one of Ormond’s New York-based lawyers and a veteran of sexual assault litigation involving Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, and he chuckled. “The word ‘investigation’ in this context is not really correct,” he countered. “Their lawyers defending them looked into this on their behalf, and lo and behold, Paul Weiss said what [CAA] wanted them to say. It’s not particularly meaningful.”