A former associate described Scott Rudin as 'a monster' Credit: Ken Hively An Apple computer monitor, a glass bowl and a baked potato are among the objects with which Hollywood producer Scott Rudin is accused of assaulting employees in a devastating new Hollywood Reporter exposé. Headlined “Bully”, Tatiana Siegel’s story is potentially the biggest bombshell to rock cinema since the unmasking of Harvey Weinstein as a violent sexual predator snowballed into the #MeToo moment in 2017. Rudin, whose roll call of smashes includes David Fincher’s The Social Network and Aaron Sorkin’s multiple-Tony bagging adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, does not stand accused of sexual misconduct. Rather he is said to have subjected underlings at his production company near Time Square in New York to sustained physical and emotional abuse. One former associate described him as “a monster”.