The celebrity lawyer -- who is representing Vin in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him by a former assistant on the "Fast Five" set -- is being called out in documents filed to compel Diesel's deposition.
00:00Brian Friedman's name, we have heard a lot over the last six months because he is the lawyer, of course, who is representing Justin Baldoni.
00:07But it is one of his other famous clients that has him making headlines now because of an allegation that Brian Friedman kind of got hot during a deposition.
00:18He got real hot and got physical during a deposition.
00:22This is a lawsuit involving Vin Diesel.
00:23Brian Friedman is there representing Vin, and the opposing counsel was expecting Vin Diesel to be there to sit for this deposition.
00:32Vin Diesel did not show up, and that's when things got heated.
00:36Now, according to this lawsuit that's been filed, it got so heated that Brian Friedman got in the face.
00:43Allegedly.
00:44Yeah, this is just in the lawsuit, got in the face of the opposing counsel and called him some names, some words we can't use here.
00:54Think of a cat.
00:56Yes, think of a cat, exactly.
00:58And then decided he was going to give him one and actually swung at the opposing counsel.
01:06Allegedly.
01:07Allegedly.
01:08This is...
01:10Brian Friedman, by the way, is not having this.
01:13No, I'm sure he's going to have a much different version of what went down.
01:19But to read it in this lawsuit, you just go like, is this what happens at depositions?
01:24Depositions are hot.
01:25Depositions are way better than what happens in court.
01:27Well, hey, this kind of thing happens.
01:29Depositions get heated.
01:30I have never seen where people are throwing punches, but expletives are tossed.
01:34You know, you try and get them to go off the record.
01:37They walk out of the room.
01:38You walk out of the room.
01:38But the key is, you try and get the court reporter to go off the record and the videographer to go off the record.
01:43Then you can say whatever you want.
01:45But if they keep you on the record, you're in trouble.
01:47Jason, you're right.
01:48And usually, in these celebrity depots, they do videotape them.
01:51Almost always.
01:52Almost always.
01:53So there's going to be video of this.
01:55I would think so.
01:55So either he did or he didn't, right?
01:57Yeah, I would think this is the next mission.
01:59You would think that that opposing counsel who's filed this lawsuit would have attached it, maybe.
02:02Would say, we've got the video.
02:04But you didn't say that.
02:06Interesting.
02:06I did not say that in the lawsuit.
02:08I don't believe it's a lawsuit.
02:09I think this is a motion to compel and to get sanctions.
02:13That's my understanding of where we are in this entire thing.
02:16It's a motion to compel, but there is a lawsuit underlying the whole thing, right?
02:20I mean, that's why they were sitting for the depot, right?
02:22The lawsuit underneath it involves Vin Diesel, right?
02:24There's a lawsuit.
02:25And these papers specifically are just a motion for sanctions.
02:27Although, can I ask you, Jason, the sanctions could be one of two things.
02:32It could be the alleged swing or Diesel not showing up.
02:36Yes.
02:37I think the sanctions—I'd have to look farther, Harvey, to see what the papers say.
02:42I impose monetary sanctions of $5,300 for the willful abuse of the discovery process.
02:47So it seems like they're—
02:48It was not the swing.
02:50Yeah, yeah.
02:51It was just not bringing Vin Diesel.
02:53Yeah, but in the meantime, Judge, you should know it was free.
02:55If it really happened—
02:56The punch you get for free.
02:57Yeah, but is that right?
02:58If it really happened, why wouldn't you add money for a swing?
03:02Oh, you don't want to be that kind of lawyer.
03:04You don't want to be the guy who's complaining.
03:05He put it in the papers, Jason.
03:07I mean, he's already called you a—
03:09Hi, Stacey Shana.
03:12I think this is highly unethical, and this is a horrible look on the profession.
03:16As a lawyer, Brian Friedman should know better, and I would expect that he would get sanctioned
03:21and reprimanded from the bar of his state.
03:23Again, we don't know that it even happened.
03:25We don't know that it happened.
03:26Yeah, I mean—
03:27But it is a wild allegation, and a hell of a story in a lawsuit.
