Michael Ovitz
Michael Ovitz (born December 14, 1946), talent agent and Hollywood powerhouse, served as the head of the Creative Artists Agency from 1975 to 1995, at which point he resigned to become president of the Walt Disney Company under chairman Michael Eisner. Fourteen months after taking office, he was fired by Disney's board of directors; this, along with the failure of his subsequent venture, the Artists Management Group, led to his very public charge of a conspiracy by the so-called Gay Mafia to bring about his ruin.In 1999, Ovitz purchased a 20% interest in peer-to-peer filesharing dot-com Scour Inc The company went out of business in September 2000 after a copyright infringement lawsuit was pursued by the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Music Publishers Association.