According to TheDailyMail:
Amber Heard’s new spin doctor has two DUI arrests, left two jobs after sexual harassment claims against him and allegedly paid ‘provocatively’ dressed women to attend a tech company event, DailyMail.com can reveal.
One woman even claimed he tried to pressure her into sex after she met him on exclusive dating app Raya.
The Aquaman actress hired David Shane, 49, last month to help push a picture of Johnny Depp as an alcohol-bingeing abuser who victimized Heard – but the PR guru himself has a checkered past of HR investigations, alcohol-related crimes and sexual impropriety allegations.
His alleged transgressions are so well-known in PR circles that he is nicknamed ‘Hurricane Shane’ and ‘the walking #MeToo case of the PR world,’ industry insiders claim.
According to his former colleagues, who spoke to DailyMail.com anonymously for fear of reprisals from the ‘litigious’ Shane, he was investigated by HR departments at both Hewlett-Packard and Juniper, where he worked as vice president of communications from 2008 to 2010 and 2010 to 2012 respectively.
The ex-colleagues said both cases involved claims of sexual harassment, and both were followed by Shane leaving the companies, although it is not clear whether his departure was because of the investigations, and Shane denied that any complaints had been filed against him.
Shane’s lawyer told DailyMail.com the allegations were ‘false’ and a distraction from the Depp-Heard defamation case, which restarts Monday after a 10-day hiatus.
Court documents exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com also reveal that he had two DUI charges in 2010 and 2012.
The alcohol-related crimes could prove embarrassing for the spin doctor, who has previously highlighted Johnny Depp’s profligate spending on wine – and has been hired by Heard to help support her claims of Depp’s alcohol-fueled abuse against her.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, a former model claimed that Shane tried to force her to give him oral sex after she met him on Raya, a dating app for the rich, famous and well-connected.
Hollie Doker, 32, said that in late 2018 Shane took her on two dates, first to Mr Chow and then to Nobu Sushi in Hollywood, and arranged a driver to pick her up by private limo both times.
After the second date they went back to his West Hollywood condo, she said.
‘He started getting really aggressive, like “come to my bedroom, let’s have sex.” I’m like “no”. I even lied to him and told him I was on my period because I just felt so uncomfortable,’ Doker said.
‘He said “I took you on these amazing dates to these really great restaurants,” insinuating that I owed it to him.
