Larry David Ended Friendship With Trump Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Because ‘He Made a Deal With the Devil. Literally. He Only Has Himself to Blame’
Larry David told The Atlantic that ex-friend Alan Dershowitz “made a deal with the devil” when he became a lawyer on Donald Trump’s defense team during the president’s first impeachment trial in 2020, hence the two gentleman are no longer friends. Dershowitz and David got into an infamous altercation on Martha’s Vineyard in 2021 that resulted in the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Seinfeld” creator calling Dershowitz “disgusting” to his face.
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Larry David told The Atlantic that ex-friend Alan Dershowitz “made a deal with the devil” when he became a lawyer on Donald Trump’s defense team during the president’s first impeachment trial in 2020, hence the two gentleman are no longer friends. Dershowitz and David got into an infamous altercation on Martha’s Vineyard in 2021 that resulted in the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Seinfeld” creator calling Dershowitz “disgusting” to his face. Dershowitz, who was a member of Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein’s defense teams at various points in his career, confirmed the fight in a 2022 interview with The New Yorker and opened up again on his falling out with David in a new profile published by The Atlantic on Aug. “Larry David doesn’t talk to me anymore,” Dershowitz told the publication.
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- Larry David told The Atlantic that ex-friend Alan Dershowitz “made a deal with the devil” when he became a lawyer on Donald Trump’s defense team during the president’s first impeachment trial in 2020, hence the two gentleman are no longer friends. Dershowitz and David got into an infamous altercation on Martha’s Vineyard in 2021 that resulted in the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Seinfeld” creator calling Dershowitz “disgusting” to his face.
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Larry David Ended Friendship With Trump Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Because ‘He Made a Deal With the Devil. Literally. He Only Has Himself to Blame’
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