Sébas Diekstra, lawyer of four former candidates of The Voice of Holland, causes a riot with his performance in the talk show of Eva Jinek. “The producer knew about the misconduct!”
Sébas Diekstra has last week summoned to an independent and impartial investigation into the abuses at The Voice. Now the investigation is in the hands of Van Doorne, a law firm hired by Voice producer ITV. And MeToo victims have no confidence in that at all, he says in the talk show Jinek.
Lie
According to Sébas, it is obvious that Van Doorne works in the interest of ITV. However, the top of that TV company cannot be trusted, according to the criminal lawyer. He states that the management already lied in the first press release about the Voice riot. In it, it was alleged that ITV knew nothing of any transgressive behavior in the programme.
Nonsense, says Sebas. He points to the interview that John de Mol gave in the much-discussed broadcast of ANGRY about the Voice Abuse. In this, John tells about the candidate who rang the bell with his in 2019. creative producer about undesirable behavior by band leader Jeroen Rietbergen, Linda de Mol’s then boyfriend and John’s brother-in-law.
Rick Brug
This creative producer of The Voice, Linde de Jong, then had a conversation with the candidate and her mother. “After that, Linde immediately went to our business director and together they ended up at my office on the same day,” said the media billionaire at the time.
That business director is Rick Brug, John himself mentions in the interview. Sébas: “That report was eventually buried. That is internally tied up. Jeroen Rietbergen has received a warning, but what is salient about the whole situation is: Rick Brug, who was the business director, had the situation completely clear, mapped it out.”
alarm balls
The same Rick is now in the management of ITV, according to Sébas. “And ITV issued a press release at the beginning of January in which RTL and ITV say they know nothing. So the ITV management member, who was involved in burying the report against Jeroen Rietbergen, issued a press release saying they knew nothing about it.”
He continues: “Well, all my clients’ alarm bells went red and they don’t want to talk to ITV anymore. Confidence in that law firm had already dwindled, but now that they know that a large part of the Talpa management just came into ITV and interfered with a report that was not taken seriously…”
The report has been downplayed, according to Sébas. “They may have said to the victim: ‘We’re going to work on it’, but nothing appears to have happened in the workplace.”
‘Is not true’
So it makes sense that MeToo victims would not trust a law firm that works for ITV, Sébas said. “They literally say they know nothing. That is actually not true.”
Eva Jinek: “Could it be that Rick Brug didn’t tell the rest of ITV management?”
Sébas: “Either that management doesn’t talk to each other or he just passed that press release and thought: I’ll keep my mouth shut and I’ll see where the ship ends up. The special thing is of course: maybe he didn’t know that John de Mol would mention his name.”
Bizarre
It is strange that the media has not picked up on this, says Sébas. “We think it’s bizarre, and we’ve been working on this for months, of course, that no journalist, no one, noticed this. No one has said: how is it possible that there is a management at ITV who was responsible for this situation at the time?”
In America Rick Brug and the rest of the ITV top had long since been on the street, according to Sébas. “Then management probably wouldn’t have been at the helm in this way.”
Fragment
An excerpt from Jinek: