Ron Meyer, Charlotte Kirk and their manager in the scandalous love triangle

She was Liz Fuller, an aspiring manager who was Miss Great Britain from 1996 to 1997. He was Ron Meyer, then executive vice chairman of NBCUniversal. The romance was short, it ran hot and then quickly turned very cold.

According to Fuller’s vivid account in a January 2021 email received from The Hollywood ReporterShe met Meyer, who was single at the time, for breakfast at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood on April 19, 2019. They were introduced by Meyer’s trainer, who had acting ambitions and was Fuller’s client. In her email, Fuller described her seemingly one night of lovemaking with Meyer as “passionate…and sexy.” I was literally cheesy and vulnerable in his company.” Soon, however, she would feel “played out.”

Fuller wrote her account of the relationship several months after Meyer was fired from NBCU. Hollywood was stunned when Meyer announced that he had paid money to resolve the difficulties arising from his sexual entanglement with another British woman with big show business dreams: the then 28-year-old actress Charlotte Kirk. She had become engaged to Meyer years before, having met him when she was 19.

Meyer wasn’t the only high-ranking industry executive to fall because of an affair with Kirk: a year earlier THR had revealed that Kevin Tsujihara, the married CEO of Warner Bros., had entered into a liaison with her and then pressured his subordinates to find her acting roles. Tsujihara resigned in March 2019.

When Meyer’s career at Universal ended, The New York Times reported that Kirk’s then-manager, Shannon Pierce, asked if the aspiring actress could be paid for an interview. (The answer was no.) But Pierce is no longer Kirk’s manager. On November 12, Fuller posted on Instagram: “Excited to be working with the extraordinary Charlotte Kirk! Perhaps single-handedly the leading and coming villain.” How the two women came together is unclear; Kirk did not respond to a request for comment, and when contacted, Fuller immediately hung up. But two days later, a woman came forward who said she was a friend of Fuller’s but refused to give her name and told her that Fuller was no longer Kirk’s manager. (That’s news for her agent.)

Apparently, Fuller wrote the email describing their brief affair while seeking legal representation, presumably to file a lawsuit against Meyer. Entertainment attorney David Berke confirms he was contacted by a third party to gauge interest in representing Fuller. After a quick review of the email, he declined. The possible basis for the claim is unclear; It’s also not clear whether Fuller has found another lawyer, although the anonymous friend made contact THR says Fuller has no interest in taking legal action against anyone. Meyer declined to comment on his relationship with Fuller.

Fuller’s website shows that she entered management in 2018. According to her account in the email, Meyer called her after his coach recommended her and said he heard the coach had “the best manager who was also the hottest manager in town.” Fuller wrote that when they went to breakfast two days later, she thought it was a business meeting. But later that day, Meyer called and invited her to dinner.

They met at The Ivy around 6 p.m. “He flirted and gave me the impression that he was looking for love and a serious date with me.” He assured me that he was the nicest guy in town, age didn’t matter (Fuller was in his mid-40s, Meyer in his mid-70s) and presented me with the (James Andrew Miller) CAA Powerhouse book so I could read up on who he was,” she continued. Then they went to Meyer’s apartment and watched Avengers: Endgame. Fuller wrote, “He gave me the impression that he was a gentleman, and again he assured me that he was not a gambler.” After falling asleep holding her hand during the film, Meyer went home.

The next week, she continued, he called her from a private jet and said he would like to take the jet to London sometime in the future. “He really dropped that to impress me and boy was I impressed,” she wrote. For now, he offered her tickets to the Universal theme park.

Meyer then called her from New York and said he had received a call from New York Page Six to confirm that he was with Fuller. She said she didn’t know what Page six Was. At that point, she said she didn’t want to go public: “I made a joke that the newspapers would undoubtedly call me a former Miss Great Britain beauty queen and most likely wouldn’t favor me.”

On April 28, they met for dinner at Caffe’ Delfini and then went to Meyer’s nearby apartment. He presented her with a wishbone necklace designed by his daughter Jennifer Meyer (the 18K version sells at Neiman Marcus for $1,200) and the C & The Moon body scrub, a product endorsed by another of his daughters ($64 on Violet Gray’s website). “I felt reassured that he was grand and serious,” she later wrote. “We saw a planet movie… I think that was it Our planet. He fell asleep, then he woke up, we started kissing and he grabbed me and led me to the bedroom.” Fuller was amazed when she saw that Meyer was “covered in tattoos… wow, not like the entrepreneur I was expected.”

After what she described as mind-blowing lovemaking, Fuller went into the bathroom and “saw a cabinet to my right and opened it.” It was full of body scrubs made in Malibu, the same ones he had given me. I found it strange how many he has. Maybe he has a partnership with this company.”

Meyer called her the next day and said they should meet the following weekend. But then she contacted the trainer. “He came forward and said he (Meyer) was training that morning and an actress walked out of the bedroom at 6 a.m. I said, ‘Wow, who was she?’ told her that she had been an idiot and that he would tell Meyer, “Since I was an emotional girl with family values, it would be best if we stopped dating since he wasn’t serious.”

Meyer called the next day, she continued. “He told me that I was a blonde beauty queen and that he thought I was a funny girl. I was very upset and asked how he could get that impression.” She then accused him of trying to lure her with his talk of traveling on a private jet. “He insisted he never said that and never brought up the Universal Studios corporate jet,” she wrote. “I found out at that moment that it wasn’t his personal jet.” The conversation took a dark turn, she wrote: “Then he accused me and said he had the ‘biggest hammer in this town and could open it at any time knock me down’.” “

For a young manager, Fuller wrote, this seemed like “checkmate.” Nevertheless, she demanded a personal apology. Meyer met her again for breakfast at Cecconi’s, arrived 30 minutes late and, according to her statement, only stayed 20 minutes. But she said he apologized and offered her “a casual sexual relationship,” which she declined. Over the next 18 months, she emailed him TV show ideas and asked him to help her coaching client.

She heard from him again in June 2020. This time, she wrote, “his energy was different.” He put her in touch with a top management firm where she wanted to work, but that turned out to be a dead end. Weeks later, Meyer was ousted at NBCU. “It was then that I realized that the way he was treating me may not have been an isolated incident,” she wrote. But she said she didn’t come forward at the time because “I was just a person who wouldn’t be believed and he had told me he was the mayor of Hollywood.” That was where her story ended, although she concluded by claiming that she received calls from them Daily Mail And The Wall Street Journal.

At this point, Kirk is still trying to collect most of the $2 million that Meyer promised her. As for Fuller, it appears she won’t even have the comfort of receiving the commissions she could have earned as Kirk’s manager.

This story appeared in the Dec. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to register.