Ex-American Apparel Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dov Charney lives in a Los Angeles mansion with eight bedrooms, but says he can’t scrape together enough cash to keep paying a lawyer (Standard General LP v. Charney).
Charney is now representing himself in a lawsuit filed against him by the hedge fund Standard General, a backer of American Apparel. The 46-year-old told a Delaware judge that if he can’t raise money to hire a new lawyer, he’ll continue doing his own legal work.
Since American Apparel’s board ousted him in 2014, Charney has waged a costly legal campaign to regain ...
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