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sentences of the press release were reported by Daily Variety in
its April 25, 1996, edition.12
Documenting the Settlement
After UTA and petitioner reached the settlement on
Wednesday, April 24, 1996, Mr. Dunham was involved in the
drafting of the final documents. On Friday, April 26, 1996, Mr.
Dunham delivered to Mr. Ostroff a draft of a comprehensive
settlement and general release agreement with respect to
petitioner’s claims against UTA.
Mr. Ostroff and Ms. Dillman asked Gary Cohen, a tax attorney
at Sidley Austin, to document the settlement reached between
petitioner and UTA. Mr. Cohen proposed the use of two settlement
agreements to Mr. Dunham. Mr. Cohen believed that two documents,
rather than one, were advisable from a tax perspective. He felt
that the employment claim and defamation claim should be kept
separate. On April 29, 1996, Mr. Cohen sent Mr. Dunham drafts of
two settlement agreements with respect to petitioner’s claims
against UTA (two settlement agreements).
On May 1, 1996, Mr. Cohen sent Mr. Dunham revised pages of
the two settlement agreements that were blacklined to show
corrections made by Mr. Dunham to the versions sent to him on
April 29, 1996.
12 The article immediately to the right of the article on
UTA and petitioner’s settlement (on the front page) reported that
Ms. Jones had joined CAA.
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