Adam Venit, the Hollywood agent who allegedly sexually assaulted Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews at a party, has returned to work after a brief suspension.
He had been disciplined in October this year after it emerged that he’d allegedly groped Crews’ genitals at a party in February 2016, being placed on a one-month unpaid suspension.
According to sources, he made a tearful apology to staff upon his return today.
The incident only emerged following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, when Crews tweeted about the incident but didn’t name Venit. His name later emerged after the agency, WME, began investigating if it was Venit that Crews was talking about.
“Someone got a pass,” Crews tweeted today, referring to an earlier email hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons had sent him, asking that he give Venit “a pass”.
SOMEONE GOT A PASS https://t.co/yLPwpWGtT8
— Terry Crews (@terrycrews) November 27, 2017
Message Russell Simmons sent to me regarding my sexual assault case against Adam Venit of @WME:
Dear @UncleRUSH——
NO ONE GETS A PASS pic.twitter.com/DmEvqWVxkc— Terry Crews (@terrycrews) November 19, 2017
One more time, for the people in the back:
NO ONE GETS A PASS
— Terry Crews (@terrycrews) November 21, 2017
Shortly after the February 2016 incident, he went to WME co-CEO Ari Emanuel and demanded that Venit be fired.
He told Good Morning America how he took an open letter that Emanuel had written in 2006 demanding that Mel Gibson be blacklisted for anti-Semitic remarks, crossed out ‘Mel Gibson’ and wrote ‘Adam Venit’, crossed out ‘anti-Semitic tirade’ and wrote ‘sexual assault’, and handed it to him, saying, “Now you know what you’ve got to do.”
He says Emanual told him, “It’s different,” and handed the letter back to him.
Following the news that Venit would be returning to work today, Crews tweeted out a copy of the letter.
As well as a one-month unpaid suspension, Venit was demoted from his position as head of the motion picture department, but reportedly still reps actors including Sylvester Stallone and Vince Vaughn.
Crews has filed a police report with the LAPD.
