For a few months, the Resistance hero even thought he could be president. Then the past caught up with him
Michael Avenatti was looking at his phone, scrolling through his Twitter mentions, when it all came crashing down. Not long before noon on March 25, he was walking toward an escalator in the newly opened 720,000-square-foot shopping mall in the middle of Hudson Yards.
Booked at the police station across from the courthouse on Pearl Street, Avenatti was allowed one phone call, which he used to call his mother. She knew what had happened to her son before he called, because Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, had already held a press conference detailing what he called “an old-fashioned shakedown” of Nike.
And in the spring of 2017, he helped win a $454 million judgment against Kimberly-Clark for defective surgical gowns that hospitals used to protect doctors from blood-borne diseases—a suit he filed during the height of the Ebola crisis. The case earned him his biggest media coup yet, an appearance onwhere he was interviewed at length by Anderson Cooper.
Behind the scenes, his behavior was even more volatile. “He had a terrible temper,” one prime-time anchor told me. “He never lost it with me, or really with any of the talent, as far as I know, because it was mostly for the bookers or the people who were behind the scenes. But he would tell people, ‘I’m going to fucking bury you. Why the fuck would you do that?’ if he didn’t like something.” A number of reporters recalled that he would physically invade their space.
Miniutti rarely knew which Michael she would wake up to, she said. “He has two extremely different personalities,” she explained. “One was this very powerful guy. I saw people who would shake his hand. They respected him. … I was so proud of him [when he first started representing Stormy].” The other, she said, was “very aggressive.” By the summer, when his schedule was busy enough that they would only have a few days together at a time, his temper flared.
Avenatti was arrested around two P.M. the following day. He was released on $50,000 bail and spoke briefly to reporters.In a statement released by his law office that day, Avenatti said that the allegations against him were “completely bogus,” adding, “I have never been physically abusive in my life nor was I last night. Any accusations to the contrary are fabricated and meant to do harm to my reputation. I look forward to being fully exonerated.
He recognized, too, that he’s in those crosshairs by his own design—like Trump, he has a sense of his own drama. “The good news is that I’m incredibly fearless. The bad news is that I’m incredibly fearless,” he said.
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