“She Would Make Her Assistants Personally Fan Her”: Employees Share What It’s Like Working For Celebrities

When it comes to thinking of celebrities, we tend to only think about the people we see on the big screen or in video clips instead of the people behind the scenes with all the ideas. Even though we don’t see them all the time or even hear their names, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t celebrities.

Scott Rudin, legendary producer of The Truman Show, Zoolander, Closer, and many others, is famed for the abuse he heaps on his revolving entourage of assistants. He had as many as 250 lackeys between 2000 and 2005. One was allegedly “fired for bringing Rudin a bad breakfast muffin.” And in 2012, he smashed an Apple computer screen on the head of an assistant…