She was Liz Fuller, an aspiring manager who was Miss Great Britain from 1996 to 1997. He was Ron Meyer, then the executive vice chairman of NBCUniversal. The romance was short-lived, heating up and then quickly cooling off.
According to Fuller’s graphic account in a January 2021 email obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, she met Meyer, who was single at the time, for breakfast at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood on April 19, 2019. We met. They had been introduced by Meyer’s trainer, who had acting ambitions and was also a client of Fuller’s. In an email, Fuller described her night of sex with Meyer as “passionate and sexy.” I literally felt weak and vulnerable in his company. ” However, eventually she begins to feel that she is being “played with.”
Fuller wrote an account of the relationship several months after Meyer was expelled from NBCU. Hollywood was stunned when it was revealed that Meyer had paid to resolve difficulties arising from a sexual entanglement with then-28-year-old actress Charlotte Kirke, another British woman with big dreams in show business. did. She met Meyer when she was 19 and became involved with him years ago.
Meyer was not the only industry executive to fall from grace over an affair with Kirk. A year ago, THR revealed that Kevin Tsujihara, the married CEO of Warner Bros., had been colluding with his girlfriend and coercing his subordinates. Find her acting role. Tsujihara resigned in March 2019.
When Meyer’s career at Universal ended, the New York Times reported that Kirk’s then-manager, Shannon Pierce, asked the aspiring actress if she could be paid for an interview. (The answer was no.) But Pierce is no longer Kirk’s manager. On November 12, Fuller posted on Instagram: “Excited to be working with the extraordinary Charlotte Kirk!” He is probably the villain who will continue to lead the way on his own. ” It is unclear how the two women met. Ms. Kirk did not respond to requests for comment and immediately hung up on Mr. Fuller when contacted. But two days later, a woman who said she was a friend of Fuller’s, who declined to give her name, contacted her to say that Fuller was no longer Kirk’s manager. (This is a message to her agent.)
While seeking legal representation, Fuller appears to have written an email describing her brief affair, possibly in order to file a lawsuit against Meyer. Entertainment lawyer David Burke confirmed he had been contacted by a third party to gauge interest in representing Fuller. After briefly checking his email, he declined. The possible basis for the claim is unclear. It’s also unclear whether Fuller has found another lawyer, but an anonymous friend who contacted THR said Fuller has no intention of pursuing legal action against anyone. Mr. Meyer declined to comment on his relationship with Mr. Fuller.
Fuller’s website states that she took on a management position in 2018. She said in the email that Meyer called her after the trainer’s recommendation and said he had heard that the trainer “has the best manager in town, who is also the hottest manager.” . Fuller wrote that when she went to breakfast two days later, she thought it was a business meeting. But later that day, Meyer called and invited her to dinner.
They met at The Ivy around 6 p.m. He reassured me that he was the nicest guy in town, that age didn’t matter (Fuller was in his mid-40s, Meyer was in his mid-70s), and that he was the best guy in the CAA powerhouse (James Andrew Miller). He handed me the book so I could read it. I wonder who he was,” she continued. They then went to Meyer’s apartment and watched Avengers: Endgame. “He struck me as a gentleman, but he also reassured me that he was not a player,” Fuller wrote. Meyer fell asleep holding her hand during the movie, then went home.
The following week, he called her from his private jet and told her he wanted to jet to London in the future, she continued. “He really dropped that as a hook to impress me, and I was really impressed,” she wrote. For now, he offers her tickets to the Universal theme park.
Meyer then called her from New York and told her that he had received a call from Page Six confirming that he was dating Fuller. She said she didn’t know what Page Six was. According to her explanation, she had no intention of going public at that time. “I joked that the newspapers would probably not do me any favors by reporting me as a former Miss Great Britain beauty queen.”
On April 28, they had dinner at Café Delfini and then went to Meyer’s nearby apartment. He wears the Wishbone necklace designed by his daughter Jennifer Mayer (the 18K version sells for $1,200 at Neiman Marcus) and C & The Moon, a product supported by his other daughter. I gifted her a body scrub ($64 on the Violet Gray website). “I was reassured that he was a wonderful and serious man,” she later wrote. “We watched a movie about planets…I think it was ‘Our Planet.’ He fell asleep, then woke up and we started kissing, and he hugged me and went to the bedroom. Fuller was stunned to see that Meyer was “covered in tattoos…Wow, he wasn’t the corporate guy I was expecting.”
After what she describes as an eye-opening sex, Fleur went to the bathroom and “saw there was a cupboard to my right, and I opened it. There was a cupboard that looked like the one he gave me.” It was full of body scrubs made by Malibu. I wondered how many he had. Maybe he has an affiliation with this company.”
The next day, Mr. Meyer called her and said they should get together the following weekend. But then she reached out to her trainer. “He came forward and said he was training (Meyer) that morning and an actress came out of her bedroom at 6 a.m. and I said, ‘Wow, who was she?’ He said she was a famous brunette from Universal movies in her 30s, but he wouldn’t say who. ” Ms. Fuller wrote that she was “in a bad mood,” but Trainor said she was stupid and told Ms. Meyer that “he wasn’t serious because I was an emotionally family-oriented girl.” So it was best for me not to date anymore.” ”
Meyer called me the next day, she continued. “He told me that he thought I was a beautiful blonde and a fun girl. I got very angry and asked him why he got that impression.” She accused him of trying to seduce her with stories of jet trips. “He claimed he never said that and never brought in Universal Studios’ corporate jet,” she wrote. “At that moment, I knew it wasn’t his private jet,” she wrote.The conversation took a dark turn, she wrote. “Then he threaded a thread through me and said, ‘You’ve got the biggest hammer in town and you can bring it down on me any time you want.'”
As a fledgling manager, it was like “checkmate,” Fuller wrote. Still, she directly demanded an apology. Meyer met her again at Cecconi’s house for breakfast, but arrived 30 minutes late and, she said, stayed only 20 minutes. However, she said he apologized and offered her a “casual sexual relationship” but she declined. Over the next 18 months, she emailed him with ideas for TV shows and asked him to help her train clients.
He contacted me again in June 2020. This time, “his energy was different,” she wrote. He introduced her to a major management company that she wanted, but in the end, she was stuck. A few weeks later, Meyer was fired at NBCU. “That’s when I realized that his treatment of me might not be a one-time thing,” she wrote. But she said she didn’t come forward at the time because “I was the only one who couldn’t believe it and he told me he was the mayor of Hollywood.” Her story ended there, but she claimed that at the end she received calls from the Daily Mail and the Wall Street Journal.
Kirk is still trying to collect most of the $2 million Meyer promised to pay her. As for Fuller, he doesn’t even seem to have the consolation of recouping the compensation he would have earned as Kirk’s manager.
This article was published in the December 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to subscribe.
