Sumner Redstone Deposition Found In Health Care Suit As Discussions Crumble

The Sumner Redstone health care lawsuit looked all but settled, but today it is really back on and lawyers for the media mogul’s former companion want the ex-Viacom chief to be ordered to offer a deposition by the day of April 18. And new correspondence suggests Redstone’s mental capacity may have been in question since April 2015.

“Throughout this litigation, Counsel have used Redstone’s health as both a sword and a shield,” stated an ex parte application for Redstone’s deposition filed Wednesday in L.A. Superior Court by Manuela Herzer’s Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinge attorneys (read it here). Before now-shuttered settlement talks started more than a week ago, the nearly six-month saga over who controls Redstone’s health care was set to go to trial in the month of May.

“Recently founded evidence – establishing that Counsel, themselves, had concerns about Redstone’s capacity as far back as April 2015 – illustrates why it is absolutely necessary that Petitioner be able to question Redstone directly, and not depend on discovery responses prepared by Counsel,” the filing also claims.