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McKellar, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003, according to herLinkedInpage, appeared as Becky Slater onThe Wonder Years, which starred her older sisterDanica McKellaras Winnie Cooper.
The breach of contract suit alleges that after McKellar left Mithril in February, she soon started writing anonymous handwritten letters to its investors to “undermine” the company with “false, anonymous complaints” aiming to “sow discord between Mithril and its business partners.”
A spokesperson for Thiel declined to comment.
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The letters were not signed, but occasionally included a return address with certain initials that, more than once, led recipients “to assume the letters originated from one of Mithril’s more significant limited partners,” the suit claims.
One of the letters accused Thiel’s co-founder Ajay Royan of “lying to investors and the public about how much” he charged in management fees, though the suit alleges he did not lie, and that McKellar even wrote and signed off on the disclosure agreements, according to the papers.
The actress-turned-lawyer was identified as the alleged letter-writing culprit in a forensic handwriting analysis, a discovery that shocked Mithril higher-ups, as she’d heaped high praise on Royan shortly before leaving, the suit says.
In a statement to PEOPLE, McKellar denied the allegations, and said that though she had not yet been served a copy of the complaint, they would be easy to prove them wrong.
In her statement, McKellar also defended Thiel, and noted that he was not part of Mithril’s management and she had “never witnessed [him] tell a lie.”
In response, Mithril spokesperson said, “Mithril’s attorneys sent the lawsuit to Ms McKellar’s lawyers.”
“Mithril filed this lawsuit to protect its investors, portfolio companies and employees from the acts described in this lawsuit,” the spokesperson said.
According to her LinkedIn, McKellar became managing partner at Signum Investments after leaving Mithril, and in July, she appeared to have founded a company called Anathem Ventures.
The suit is seeking more than $1 million in relief.
For years most famous as a Silicon Valley investor and PayPal co-founder, Thiel, 51, emerged as one of the leading — and lone — tech tycoon voices backing PresidentDonald Trump.
That steadfast support, which has included dismissing Trump’s habit of lying and personally attacking his critics, made him a “punching bag” in the tech community, according toBloomberg.
“I was surprised that it generated as much controversy as it did,” he toldThe New York Timesin 2017 of his pro-Trump politics.
source: people.com
