Arbitrator rules there’s nothing fishy about the actor’s story
Jeremy Piven has won the case of the poisoned fish. Earlier this year, the Entourage star made headlines when he quit a Broadway play, claiming that he’d gotten mercury poisoning from eating too much fish for the last 20 years. The producers filed a grievance with the actors’ union, and the case went to arbitration. Now the arbitrator has ruled that Piven’s withdrawal from David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow” was not a violation of his contract, because there is sufficient evidence that he had a reasonable basis for his belief that he was too sick to continue with the show. Piven says that he has been “vindicated” by this decision: “The truth prevailed. It’s a beautiful thing.”