Kennedy v. Sadafi CA2/4

BACKGROUND

Sometime before the summer of 2006, Kennedy met a composer and conductor, Dino Zonic, who was looking for a screenwriter to write the story of his life during the Croatian war. Zonic asked Kennedy to write a spec script. Kennedy told a friend, Khaled Alawar, about Zonic. Alawar owned an art gallery in Ojai. At around the same time Kennedy told Alawar about Zonic, Sadafi came into the gallery to talk to him about a foundation. Alawar, who had known Sadafi for several years, told Sadafi that she should meet Kennedy because Kennedy was working with an amazing composer; he thought Sadafi could help Kennedy because of her connections. Alawar told Kennedy that Sadafi was a smart business woman, and well-connected to high-powered people. Sadafi met with Kennedy and Zonic to discuss Zonic’s plans to create a film and develop Unity Through Music, a project Zonic started in Europe. After watching Zonic’s DVD, Sadafi told them she wanted to get involved with producing Zonic’s concerts and film. Sadafi arranged for Kennedy, Zonic, Alawar, and Alawar’s wife to go to Colorado with her to meet with Sadafi’s billionaire friends, Hannah and Maurice Strom.

2 Kennedy and Sadafi took a…