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Sony’s Amy Pascal Calls Producer Aaron Sorkin “Broke,” Alleges He Sleeps Around in Another Hacked Email — Read Her Remarks Here

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Aaron Sorkin bashed in leaked Sony emails

The disses never end! In another leaked email conversation between Sony Pictures Entertainment's co-chairwoman Amy Pascal, Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin takes a hit for allegedly being "broke" and sleeping with an author whose book he's attempting to turn into a movie.

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Sorkin, who has a longstanding relationship with Sony and was behind hits like The Social Network and Moneyball, appeared to have annoyed Pascal after going back and forth between two potential films with Sony Pictures Entertainment: Flash Boys and Molly's Game, an adaptation of a book by the same title which revolves around a woman named Molly Bloom who ran an underground poker ring in Los Angeles.

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According to Gawker, emails between Sorkin and Pascal had been exchanged since October discussing the two films, but on Nov. 13, Sorkin's agent Ari Emanuel told Pascal and other execs in an email that the producer had decided to not take on Flash Boys and instead pitch Molly's Game to other studios. 

"Guys we appreciate your point of view on Molly's Game as it relates to Flash Boys," the famed agent wrote in an email. "We have been instructed by Aaron to let you know that he is passing on Flash Boys and he will go do Molly's Game at one of three other studios. Thank you for your continued interest in Aaron. We look forward to a happy and successful outcome on Jobs."

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Clearly upset with Sorkin's decision, Pascal then emailed Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, as well as Michael De Luca and Hannah Minghella, the co-presidents of production at Columbia, alleging that Sorkin is broke and sleeping with Molly Bloom. 

"We are getting totally positioned in the Aaron stuff," Pascal began her harsh email. "He is broke. He wants to get paid. We paid him his insane fee on flashboys. When the poker movie came around we didn't want to not be in Aaron business so we wanted that too. after social network jobs and flashboys Aaron and mark took the project to the town on the 'pretense' that we don't have the money. They went to every single studio…I don't care if Aaron is sleeping with the girl or not. I don't care if it becomes a best seller. They are treating us like s–t."

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This isn't the first email that reveals his tense relationship with Pascal either. In another leaked email between Sorkin and Pascal, the Newsroom producer bashes Michael Fassbender while contemplating the Oscar nominee starring in his Steve Jobs biopic. 

"I don't know who Michael Fassbender is and the rest of the world isn't going to care," the screenwriter wrote.

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