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        <title><![CDATA[Inside Charlotte Kirk’s ‘super aggressive’ tactics with Hollywood men]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The summer movie season is a pandemic-afflicted bust. But Hollywood is overcompensating with a real-life blockbuster: Starring a savvy young actress who takes down two powerful studio heads, it reads like a reboot of &ldquo;Basic Instinct&rdquo; meets &ldquo;Fatal Attraction.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Despite a lackluster career, 28-year-old Charlotte Kirk <strong>snagged marquee headlines</strong> this week after <strong>toppling the four-decade career of Ron Meyer</strong> &mdash; formerly one of the most powerful agents in Hollywood (having worked with stars like Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and Cher) and, since 2013, the vice chairman of NBCUniversal.</p>
<p>Meyer, 75, admitted to settling a lawsuit with Kirk, whom he characterized as a woman with whom he had a &ldquo;brief consensual affair&rdquo; in 2012, while still married to his second wife, Kelly. The Los Angeles Times reported that <strong>Meyer paid Kirk at least $500,000</strong> as part of a promised $2 million settlement in 2019.</p>
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<p>In a statement this week, Meyer claimed that third parties <strong>&ldquo;continuously attempted to extort me into paying them money&rdquo;</strong> by threatening to publish false claims about Meyer or falsely implicate NBCUniversal in the ordeal, and that Kirk (whom he did not name) had &ldquo;made false accusations against&rdquo; him.</p>
<p>Kirk&rsquo;s lawyer, who had no comment for The Post, told Variety that he&rsquo;s <strong>&ldquo;never done a settlement with Ron Meyer on anything.&rdquo;</strong></p>
<p>Meanwhile, last year, Kevin Tsujihara, 55, <strong>stepped down as the CEO</strong> of Warner Brothers Entertainment after it was revealed that he tried to get film auditions for Kirk, with whom he, too, had an extramarital affair.</p>
<p>Text messages &mdash; between Kirk, Tsujihara and others &mdash; leaked to The Hollywood Reporter in 2019 seem to suggest that Kirk&rsquo;s sexual favors may have also helped grease a $450 million deal between Warner Bros. and RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a production company owned by two of her early benefactors: director Brett Ratner and billionaire James Packer, whom Kirk reportedly also dated. (Representatives for Meyer, Tsujihara and Packer did not return calls for comment. Ratner had no comment.)</p>
<p>Some of these power players have accused Kirk of &ldquo;blackmail&rdquo; and &ldquo;extortion&rdquo; in her desperate climb up the Tinseltown ladder.</p>
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<figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Kirk&rsquo;s romance with CEO Kevin Tsujihara led to him losing his job.<span class="credit">Getty Images</span></figcaption>
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<p>According to The Hollywood Reporter, she wasted no time asking if Tsujihara had <strong>talked to his &ldquo;guys&rdquo;</strong> about a TV show she had read for.</p>
<p>Over the next year, communications show the two making plans &mdash; while Kirk also asked about auditions and Tsujihara seemed to grow increasingly weary of her demands.</p>
<p>In March 2015, Kirk angrily e-mailed him about a role she actually landed &mdash; presumably in the WB film &ldquo;How to Be Single&rdquo; &mdash; saying: &ldquo;Kevin? A two liner?? U have got to be kidding me!!&rdquo;</p>
<p>The Tsujihara affair ended, but Kirk walked away with a slightly larger part in 2018&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ocean&rsquo;s 8,&rdquo; also a Warner Bros. flick.</p>
<p>Kirk wasn&rsquo;t only rubbing elbows with men at the top of the Hollywood heap &mdash; and insiders allege that her lesser-known lovers tried to extort the more famous one.</p>
<p>She also dated Joshua Newton, a low-budget director who cast her in the upcoming &ldquo;Nicole &amp; O.J.&rdquo; in which Kirk plays Nicole Brown Simpson.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;She attempted to hit on my husband . . . Her networking style is pushy.&rdquo;</p>
<p><span class="attribution">&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;Jana Grazer</span></p>
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<p>And she&rsquo;s now engaged to Neil Marshall, who has directed episodes of &ldquo;Game of Thrones&rdquo; and &ldquo;Westworld,&rdquo; as well as a 2019 big-screen remake of &ldquo;Hellboy.&rdquo; He, too, has worked with Kirk, on her passion project &ldquo;The Reckoning&rdquo; &mdash; a horror film, co-written by and starring her and produced and directed by him. It opened the online Fantasia International Film Festival Thursday, after organizers canceled a Q&amp;A with Kirk and Marshall.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s clear &lsquo;The Reckoning&rsquo; is <strong>meant to be a star vehicle for Kirk</strong> &mdash; she&rsquo;s made up and shot like a model even while in a squalid prison .&thinsp;.&thinsp;.,&rdquo; wrote BadFeelingMag.com. &ldquo;But the film is simply too hokey to take seriously.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Multiple sources told Page Six that Newton and Marshall separately attempted to extort Meyer &mdash; for money, introductions and work &mdash; leading to the ouster at NBCUniversal. They allegedly threatened to go public with Meyer&rsquo;s affair with Kirk and the settlement he allegedly promised her after it ended.</p>
<p>Marshall and Newton deny the allegations; Newton was unreachable and Marshall did not reply to requests for comment. A source close to the matter said that Meyer has made complaints about both men to the FBI, along with one about Kirk.</p>
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<figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Besides tiny roles in films like &ldquo;Ocean&rsquo;s 8,&rdquo; Kirk stars in a video for her song &ldquo;I Get the Feeling Again.&rdquo;<span class="credit">YouTube</span></figcaption>
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<p>Those who have worked with Kirk have praise for the actress.</p>
<p>&ldquo;She is the best actress that [her acting teacher] had,&rdquo; Jana Grazer said.</p>
<p>&ldquo;She came to work, she did what she was supposed to do .&thinsp;.&thinsp;. professionally, she was very good,&rdquo; said Jamison M. LoCascio, director of the 2017 drama &ldquo;The Depths,&rdquo; in which Kirk had a co-starring role. &ldquo;We never saw any signs of [her personal drama]. She never came on to anyone. She flew out [to New Jersey] to do the movie from Los Angeles and paid her own expenses. Charlotte is a nice person.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Too bad, then, that insiders say her career will likely never recover.</p>
<p>&ldquo;They all shot themselves in the head,&rdquo; said Blaylock. &ldquo;[Kirk, Marshall and Newton] will have a hard time getting hired again. I wouldn&rsquo;t hire them.&rdquo;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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