One eyewitness said that Hirsch put Bernfeld in a chokehold from behind, dragged her across the table, and body-slammed her to the floor. “He basically grabbed me at the curve of the elbow, choked me up, threw me across the table, and I felt the front of my throat hit the back of my throat,” she told police. Minutes later, though, Bernfeld said he returned and jumped her. The light shove appeared to do the trick, and Hirsch left her area. A waitress seemed to corroborate Bernfeld’s version of events, informing police that an inebriated Hirsch was making Bernfeld uncomfortable, pawing her and grabbing her hair. She then pushed him away from her, telling the actor that she was in fact a studio executive and the daughter of a school principal. “Your parents are rich and you don’t know what it’s like,” Bernfeld recalled him saying. She said Hirsch, whom she’d never met before, repeatedly got in her face when she refused his advances, asking why she looked “so tough” and branded her a spoiled party girl who’s “never done anything” with her life. I think she had a go at me and I probably defended myself.”īernfeld, 31, and eyewitnesses painted a very different picture. “I don’t think it was much more than that to be honest. “She started kind of causing a ruckus and I sort of started getting intervening and this happened,” said Hirsch. He further alleged the aforementioned film exec, Paramount VP Dani Bernfeld, provoked him. By day, it’s swarmed with beanie-sporting cinephiles so eager to indulge in the latest experimental films they’ll trudge through feet of snow at night, it transforms into a boozy bacchanalia, where attractive guest-list-approved scenesters rub shoulders with A-list stars (and partake in snow of a different kind).Īccording to police records, Hirsch claimed he’d had three or four drinks and his memory of the night was fuzzy. Sundance has long suffered from a kind of cultural bipolar disorder.
Hirsch, the star of such films as Into the Wild and Lone Survivor, was there to promote Ten Thousand Saints, wherein he plays a straight-edge, closeted punk rocker heavy into Hare Krishna. In the eyes of many aspiring actresses, however, it’s seen as something far more sinister: the hunting ground of Harvey Weinstein, who is alleged to have assaulted several women during the fest, including Rose McGowan.
Over the years, it’s hosted the debuts of Blood Simple, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Reservoir Dogs, The Usual Suspects, Whiplash, and Get Out, among others, launching the directorial careers of everyone from the Coens and Soderbergh to Tarantino and Peele. The occasion, as it were, was the Sundance Film Festival, an annual showcase of the year’s best independent cinema offerings. Several hours-and drinks-later, eyewitnesses say that two people had to physically pull the then 29-year-old actor off a female film executive whom he’d choked unconscious. 25, 2015, Emile Hirsch settled into a VIP booth at Tao, a pop-up nightclub situated at the base of Main Street in the mountains of Park City, Utah.
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