The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi accused of groping "A-list actor"
Abbasi has parted ways with his U.S. representation in the aftermath of the alleged incident.
2025’s cursed Oscars season didn’t get any less so today, as Deadline reports that The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi has broken ties with his U.S.-based representation, reportedly over allegations of a groping incident at a Golden Globes afterparty. The Deadline piece cites unnamed sources who accuse “an inebriated Abbasi” of having “aggressively groped an A-list, CAA-repped actor” at the event. (Variety, meanwhile, clarifies that the afterparty in question “was not an official CAA gathering”; no outlets have reports on who the actor in question was.) Although he hasn’t addressed the allegations, Abbasi confirmed today that he has parted ways with both CAA and 360 Entertainment, and is now only represented by LARK in the U.K. It’s not clear, from reports, who decided to break up here with who; per Variety, “A representative for Abbasi had no further comment on the matter.”