Ron Meyer sought FBI assistance shortly after he was threatened with exposing his affair with actress Charlotte Kirk, two sources familiar with the matter told Variation.
Meyer stepped down as vice president of NBCUniversal on Tuesday after informing the company about the affair and the existence of a confidential arrangement. In a statement, Meyer said he was forced to make the revelation after other parties “continually tried to depress me to pay their money.”
It is not clear whether the FBI is investigating the case. The FBI declined to comment, as did Meyer.
Meyer, 75, had a brief relationship with Kirk, who is now 28, about eight years ago.
Kirk also had an affair with Kevin Tsujihara, the former CEO of Warner Bros., in 2013 and 2014. The revelation of that affair, and of Tsujihara’s efforts to buy auditions for her, also cost Tsujihara his job.
In that case, the Hollywood Reporter published text messages between Kirk and producer Brett Ratner, which served as an intermediary. In one of the reports, Ratner accused Kirk of trying to export Tsujihara by threatening to go to a lawyer after she was not promised employment.
“Brett, you’re an idiot. I’m not exhaustive,” she wrote at the time.
Kirk stars in ‘The Reckoning’, a horror film she co-wrote with director Neil Marshall, which is due to debut at the Fantasia International Film Festival on Thursday. The Montreal-based festival is being held this year.
Marshall and Kirk, both British natives, share a residential address in Los Angeles, according to a business statement.
