It’s a brutal truism of corporate America that the simplest way to get rid of an out-of-favour employee is to comb through their expenses – and why many employees never claim expenses at all.
What is less obvious is why a battle over expenses and working conditions between one of the biggest movie stars in the history of cinema and his former assistant landed in a Manhattan court last week in one of the strangest, longest – and most bitterly fought – legal spats ever seen in the world of the US’s A-list celebrities.
