News Bytes: Duchovny's Attorney Denies 8th Season Offer
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000Source: Nelson, Guggenheim, Felker, & Levine
Peter Nelson of the Los Angeles law firm, Nelson, Guggenheim, Felker, & Levine, David Duchovny's attorney, issued the following statement in response to media inquiries concerning a story in today's Daily Mail of London:
'The information contained in a story in today's Daily Mail of London concerning an offer purportedly made by Fox to David Duchovny for the eighth season of the X-Files is inaccurate and has no basis in fact. The source with whom they spoke clearly has no idea what he or she is talking about.'
The Daily Mail apparently picked up a story that originated in the Vancouver Sun earlier this week. Malcom Parry, a columnist for the paper, reported that Duchovny had been offered $1-million per episode to return for an 8th Season of X-Files. No explanation has been forthcoming on why it took so long for Duchovny's lawyers to refute the story, nor for why their official statement refers only to the Daily Mail, which was not the origin of the story.
