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Filmmaker Michael Bay is in “extreme anguish” over a story that claims he was charged in Italy for killing a pigeon, according to his lawyer.
In a legal letter, Bay’s attorney is demanding The Wrap retract or correct the “reckless” and “false” story that reported the director was charged in Italy for killing the bird on the set of 6 Underground.
“As you know, Mr. Bay was never accused, much less ‘charged,’ with ‘killing’ an animal,” Bay’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, wrote in the letter to the publication, obtained by Variety. “Further, as you also know (but failed to publish), the only ‘charge’ at issue in Italy concerns whether, in his capacity as the film’s director, Mr. Bay failed to properly supervise crew members (whom he did not even have the ability to hire) responsible for handling the animals on set.”