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The following evening, those words had hit the media – and the career of one of the most powerful men in Hollywood had imploded. The L.A. sheriff's department is now probing whether Mee was pressured by higher-ups, some of whom know Gibson as a donor to the department's fallen-officer fund, to omit details from his report (four key pages of the document were leaked). Prominent members of the entertainment and Jewish communities have denounced the remarks, among them powerful agent Ari Emanuel, who urged his peers to "professionally shun" Gibson, and Barbara Walters, who announced on The View that she would no longer see his films.
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That may not be enough. While Gibson publicly thanked Mee for "probably saving me from myself" and issued a plea to meet with Jewish leaders for a "discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing," through his spokesman Alan Nierob, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, not everyone who heard his appeal was in a forgiving mood.
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