Albrecht out as head of HBO

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 10th, 2007

Former standup comic and now former head of HBO Chris Albrecht has “resigned” as head of the cable outlet after being arrested last weekend for beating his girlfriend in the parking lot of the MGM Grand in Vegas. (He was told to resign or he’d be canned.)

Albrecht was given the Resign Or Fired Award not only for the recent Vegas whupping rather for his entire body of work– turns out he also assaulted an ex back 16 years ago.

In both cases, the girlfriends were HBO employees at the time. So, Albrecht doesn’t just date inside the company– in itself an offense that would get many folks fired– he then gets pissy (or a bit tipsy and angry) and then gets violent. The NYPost ahs some of the juicy details:

…In 1991, HBO paid a settlement of at least $400,000 to Sasha Emerson, a subordinate at HBO who had just broken off an affair with Albrecht. Both were married at the time.