{"id":4352,"date":"2026-07-27T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:09:39","slug":"ari-emanuel-once-really-wanted-anthony-fauci-to-be-his-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"Ari Emanuel Once Really Wanted Anthony Fauci to Be His Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<em>Dr. Fauci, Medicine Man?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The COVID czar was one courted for Hollywood stardom, according to his diary entries newly released by a Republican senator and adversary.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s suitor: Ari Emanuel.<\/p>\n<p>The WME chief for a time was calling the\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases\u00a0director and President Biden chief medical advisor \u201conce every several weeks,\u201d apparently to woo him as a client. Emanuel would regularly tell Fauci that the doctor was leaving money on the table by not producing more books, giving more speeches and consulting on or starring in more TV shows and films.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how much Fauci indulged the overtures. Fauci already had been the subject of a film treatment, a 2021 National Geographic documentary looking at his career dating from the AIDS crisis into early COVID. He would later be the subject of a 2023\u00a0<em>American Masters\u00a0<\/em>on PBS that examines the fallout once his COVID tenure turned political and in 2024 published the memoir <em>On Call,<\/em>\u00a0about his decades as a health-care specialist working in government and policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Emanuel nugget comes from Fauci\u2019s diaries released by Kentucky senator Rand Paul, a sharp critic of the medical expert; Paul chairs the\u00a0Senate\u2019s Homeland Security committee and has initiated an investigation of Fauci\u2019s COVID response policy and subpoenaed the longtime scientist. Laura Ingraham\u2019s former executive producer Tom Elliott amplified the entry on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In the diary entry c. 2021\u00a0Fauci laid out Emanuel\u2019s overtures.\u00a0\u201cGot a call from Ari Emanuel today \u2013 He told me that he will be coming to Washington DC in the next month and wants to come over the house for dinner to explain to me how naive I am and not fully appreciating just how much money I can get from book deals films and speeches. Ari has been calling me about once every several weeks to just check in on me and see how I am doing and to maintain the connection. He is very obviously hot to be my agent when I step down from the United States government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci will testify this week before the Homeland Security Committee chaired by Paul. As his presence on the Hill involves both celebrity and COVID vaccinations, expect plenty of Republican grandstanding and right-wing online trolling. The diary also describes the Instagram Live appearance Fauci made with Julia Roberts during the pandemic and his contact with an approving Matt Damon and Trevor Noah, among others. These are the kinds of associations conservative critics of Fauci like to cite, even though all they really suggest is that a health-care official recognized the power of Hollywood to get his message out.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4348\">Diego Luna to Receive Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at Bosnian Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tDespite unspooling a long and accomplished career, Fauci might have faced headwinds trying to carry out Emanuel\u2019s plan. The doctor of course became a lightning rod to parts of the conservative and anti-vax constituencies who used him as a punching bag for all their bete noirs about COVID policy. And the population that likes him \u2014 pro-science people across the political spectrum \u2014\u00a0were starting in 2022 looking to move past that dark chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci stepped down from his NIAID post at the end of 2022 and segued to a lecturing job at Georgetown. He never signed with Emanuel.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4346\">Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming, Benedict Wong Pen Op-Ed Urging U.K. to Block \u201cDangerous\u201d Paramount-Warner Bros. 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