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   Adam Schiff’s Los Angeles district is at the epicenter of an   
   elite circle of power brokers with money and influence to sway   
   industry and politics alike. Schiff has enjoyed the benefits of   
   their favor, but it may at times, come with a price. The rich,   
   powerful, and well connected in the Hollywood industry and   
   political spheres helped launch Schiff’s career onto the   
   national stage and the very same people may influence his   
   political aspirations. So, who are the power brokers behind this   
   poster boy for the Trump impeachment? In this report, we will   
   focus on just a few, but it’s likely there are many more.   
      
   Hollywood Power Brokers: David Geffen & Associates   
      
   It was Hollywood mogul, David Geffen who championed Adam   
   Schiff’s 2000 campaign to oust the Republican congressman of the   
   27th District, James E. Rogan, who had served as a House Manager   
   during the Clinton Impeachment trial. Reportedly enraged by the   
   impeachment of Bill Clinton, David Geffen and his Hollywood   
   associates committed unlimited time, money and energy to the   
   cause, in what turned out to be the most expensive House race in   
   history, at the time. Since Schiff won the 2000 race to unseat   
   Rogan, he has not faced any substantial challenges to his seat.   
   Much of his early success could be attributed to Geffen’s   
   support, to which I assume Adam Schiff owes Geffen and his   
   associates, at the very least, his gratitude. At the most,   
   perhaps Adam Schiff owes his loyalty.   
   “Super-agent” and co-founder of Creative Artist Agency, Michael   
   Ovitz, had quite a lot to say about David Geffen and his   
   associates in a 2002 interview with Vanity Fair. Once deemed as   
   the “most powerful man in Hollywood,” Ovitz, who was president   
   of The Walt Disney Company from 1995 to 1997, opined about the   
   downfall of his fledgling Artist Management Group company, while   
   casting blame on a cabal he described as the “gay mafia” led by   
   DreamWorks cofounder, David Geffen. Ovitz remarked, “I’m going   
   to be insensitively direct…I’m just going to say what I’m going   
   to say, and let the cards fall where they may. I think it’s the   
   low road out for me. But it’s a lose-lose proposition. If I say   
   nothing, I get killed. If I talk, it comes off as sour grapes.”   
   Ovitz went on to explain the downward spiral of his career after   
   leaving Creative Artist Agency, stating, “The last six years   
   have been a nightmare for me.”   
   The author of the Vanity Fair piece, Bryan Burrough, described   
   his interview with Ovitz like this, “The collapse of AMG is the   
   direct result of a flawed business plan — Ovitz won’t argue that   
   — but behind the scenes, he believes, its demise was hastened by   
   [David] Geffen and other enemies, who at every turn did what   
   they could to make his dream a nightmare…It is one of the   
   driving factors in his decision to talk about what happened, a   
   burning need to name names, to throw light on the shadowy   
   Hollywood cabal he believes did him in. He calls it the Gay   
   Mafia, though several of its “members” aren’t gay, and much of   
   what he says about these men is nasty and unprintable. In   
   Ovitz’s eyes the cabal’s demagogic leader… is Geffen, laying   
   waste to all Ovitz held dear, spreading rumors about his family,   
   at the same time he was poisoning the business deals that would   
   have saved AMG — all things Geffen denies.”   
   When asked to comment, David Geffen refuted Ovitz’s claims,   
   stating, “Oh, please…A Gay Mafia? This is so crazy. This is   
   insane. I think he needs a psychiatrist. It’s so paranoid, and   
   so crazy, and so irresponsible, and makes him look like such a   
   nut. It’s beyond crazy. On a scale of 1 to 10 crazy, it’s 11.…   
   He’s made a fool of himself, and he’s made a huge failure of his   
   life. To say you’ve been brought down by the Gay Mafia and its   
   allies is as crazy as anything I’ve ever heard in my life.”   
   After facing harsh criticism over the tell-all interview,   
   Michael Ovitz has back peddled from his “gay mafia” comments,   
   adding that he regrets the statements and has since made up with   
   David Geffen over a “civil lunch.”   
   All-in-all, it seems that both Adam Schiff and Michael Ovitz   
   have learned that this Hollywood shot caller and one of the   
   power brokers behind Schiff, can be either a fierce friend or   
   foe.   
      
      
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