Larry David Says Alan Dershowitz Made a Deal With the Devil Over Trump Defense
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 20
Larry David Says Alan Dershowitz Made a Deal With the Devil Over Trump Defense
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 20
Summary
In a new Atlantic profile, Larry David said Alan Dershowitz "made a deal with the devil" by joining Donald Trump’s legal team, offering his clearest public explanation yet for their broken friendship.
David said he initially felt some sympathy after Dershowitz’s son Elon died at 64 last year and regretted not reaching out, but later added that Dershowitz "only has himself to blame" for being ostracized.
The rupture traces back to a 2021 Martha’s Vineyard grocery-store confrontation, later confirmed by Dershowitz, in which David called him "disgusting" after years as friends and neighbors.
Dershowitz’s Trump ties remain central to the fallout: he served on Trump’s 2020 first impeachment defense team, switched to the Republican Party in April, and in June lost a bid to revive his $300 million CNN defamation suit.