Anomaly has expanded the leadership lineup in its L.A. office. Longtime Anomaly leader Aisea Laungaue steps into a newly created role as global partner, executive strategy director. Laungaue will focus on client growth and development across the Anomaly network, working closely with partner and global CEO Karina Wilsher and founding partner and executive chairman Carl Johnson. Laungaue will continue to focus on some key existing L.A. clients, as well as take on a roaming remit of global client growth. He has served as partner and chief strategy officer at the L.A. office since it opened its doors in 2016, previously working as head of strategy for Anomaly New York with a stint at entertainment agency CAA in between.
Concurrently, Anomaly veteran Amanda Feve returns to the company and fills Laungaue’s role as partner and chief strategy officer for the L.A. office. During her eight-year tenure, Feve served as partner and chief strategy officer of Anomaly’s Amsterdam office, leading global businesses Johnnie Walker and LVMH across both London and Berlin offices. After a post-pandemic decision to relocate back to the U.S., Feve served as chief strategy officer at TBWAMedia Arts Lab.
As she returns to Anomaly, Feve will lead the office alongside Khara Wagner and Josh Fell. Wagner, who stepped into the role of president at Anomaly LA in 2022 after three years as managing partner and head of account management at Anomaly New York, has been elevated to partner and CEO. Fell continues to serve in his position as partner and chief creative officer.
Anomaly LA has also hired Finnian O’Neill as managing director. O’Neill joins from RAPP, where he led full-funnel integration across business, including data-led performance marketing for B2B. Previously, he held senior leadership roles both at FIG and BBH across its New York, London, and Shanghai offices, leading account management and global businesses including PlayStation, Diageo and Coca-Cola.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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