Bye, spy

REPORTS that Harvey Weinstein’s ex-lawyer David Boies hired private detectives to investigate Weinstein’s accusers didn’t surprise Joe Simon-Whelan. When the producer sued the Andy Warhol Foundation in 2007, Boies represented the foundation. “Nearly $15 million was spent on legal fees by both sides,” Simon-Whelan said. “Boies and the foundation admitted to spending about $200,000 on private investigators.” Simon-Whelan had sued because the foundation ruled his signed $2 million Warhol self-portrait was a fake. “We settled by agreeing to dis- agree,” he said.

Boies was recently fired by the New York Times after it was revealed that his firm had hired Kroll and Black Cube, private intelligence firms, to try to stop media outlets from publishing allegations of Weinstein’s sexual abuse.

Representatives for Boies’ firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, did not respond to requests for comment.