Chicago magazine

Kathy Griffin

■ I don’t have an agent now. Nobody will touch me. I’ve made $75 million over my career and generated millions for networks. I’ve done Super Bowl ads. I have two Emmys and a Grammy. I have two New York Times bestsellers. And they’re all scared of the Trump tweet. I’m the patron saint of Trump tweets.

■ It is still I had met her one time on a TV show, and she seemed legit. I had no idea at the time that she was quite literally working for Harvey Weinstein. When she said we were going to have a press conference, I was like, Are you kidding? I’m from Forest Park; we don’t have press conferences. My actual attorney came in the next day, when the Secret Service opened the investigation into me. That’s when things got serious.

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