Anonymous ID: 22440d Feb. 14, 2025, 5:16 a.m. No.22581140   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1539

An actor has alleged he was terminated from his job as an assistant after alerting NBCUniversal officials to suspected criminal activity involving a senior vice president.

Tyler Adkins, 27, made the allegations in a suit filed Wednesday, in LA County Superior Court. Defendants include Senior Vice President of Universal Theatrical Group (UTG) Chris Herzberger, and then-executive producer Marco Pennette.

Also named was Vice President of Creative Development and Production at Universal Theatrical Group Lowe Cunningham, as well as NBCUniversal. Universal Theatrical Group is the live theater division of the famed motion picture studio.

Adkins has appeared on shows like American Horror Stories, and claims he was in a romantic relationship with Herzberger that started in 2021. It began with a meeting at an intimate LA restaurant, after which Herzberger allegedly demanded sex.

Adkins allegedly obliged, after being told that it would be good for his career. A refusal would damage it, Herzberger allegedly claimed. Their relationship allegedly lasted three years, until the summer of last year.

During that span, whenever Adkins allegedly tried to end things, he claims Herzberger would threaten to blacklist him from the industry, threatening retaliation.

Things rapidly changed during a road trip in June, it is alleged. Adkins, under the impression Herzberger was cheating, opened Herzberger’s Grindr app to find messages directing conversations to the Telegram app, the lawsuit states.

In messages there, Herzberger allegedly discussed a desire to have sex with children - asking whether the people he was messaging could provide a child. As others shared accounts of molesting underage family members, 'Herzberger [asked] if he could participate,' the suit states.

Lisa Noveck, one of the lawyer handling Adkins case, told DailyMail.com that the allegations in the lawsuit 'assert reprehensible conduct involving Mr. Adkins reporting what he understood to be sexual conduct with children.'

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-14390617/nbc-lawsuit-sex-tyler-adkins-Chris-Herzberger-nbcuniversal.html