Nancy Lesser, executive vice president of media and talent at HBO, has taken legal action against the businesses behind the Emmy Awards for negligence in preparing and maintaining the famed red carpet upon which nominees, winners and guests walk during the awards show. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Lesser alleges she experienced a terrible fall last year when exiting the Microsoft Theater. Her injury, she adds, caused her to miss out on HBO's afterparty and take eight months to rehabilitate.
The complaint targets the Television Academy, Anshutz Entertainment and the City of Los Angeles. Each of the defendants, alleges Lesser, laid out, positioned and erected the red carpet that provided a straight line to and from the theater.
Lesser's suit alleges those responsible for the red carpet knew based on past and present experience with awards shows that "even celebrity attendees to the Emmy Awards could be expected to exit in a throng-like manner, which would create extreme congestion and severely diminish any forward visibility and certainly diminish and preclude visibility of conditions that may exist on the walkway itself." more
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