She was Liz Fuller, an aspiring manager who had been Miss Great Britain from 1996-97. He was Ron Meyer, at the time the executive vice chairman of NBCUniversal. The romance was brief, running hot and then quickly going very cold.

According to Fuller’s vivid account in a January 2021 email obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, she met Meyer, who was single at the time, for a breakfast on April 19, 2019, at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood. They had been introduced by Meyer’s trainer, who had acting ambitions and was Fuller’s client. In her email, Fuller described what appears to have been her one night of lovemaking with Meyer as “passionate … and sexy. I was literally putty and vulnerable in his company.” Before long, however, she would be feeling “played.”

Fuller wrote her account of the relationship several months after Meyer was ousted from NBCU. Hollywood was stunned when Meyer...