Alan Dershowitz, the 87-year-old Donald Trump ally and former lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein, has spent years stirring controversy on Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts island that has long served as a summer retreat for well-connected figures in politics, media and entertainment. But while comedian, writer and producer Larry David appears to have moved on, Dershowitz’s fixation on him seems to persist, according to reporting by The Atlantic.

David, the “Seinfeld” co-creator known for his dry observational comedy, petty everyday disputes, and painfully awkward social situations, does not spend much time thinking about Dershowitz — but he told The Atlantic that he is living rent-free in Dershowitz’s head.

In summers past, Dershowitz — a Harvard Law professor for decades who defended clients from Claus von Bülow to O.J. Simpson before joining Trump’s first impeachment defense team in 2020 — waged a war against Martha’s Vineyard’s Good Pierogi and complained that his affinity for Trump was a social reputation killer on the liberal island. To hear him tell it, Dershowitz was the victim of social radioactivity for his ongoing association with Trump.

The rupture came in 2019, in a clash between David and Dershowitz at the Chilmark General Store, after David called Dershowitz “disgusting” for palling around with Mike Pompeo, the then-Secretary of Defense — an exchange that drew tabloid headlines at the time.

“It’s disgusting. Your whole enclave — it’s disgusting. You’re disgusting!” David said.

Dershowitz told the press at the time that David was so furious that Dershowitz worried he might have a stroke.

Mark Leibovich, a staff writer at The Atlantic and former chief national correspondent of The New York Times Magazine, approached Dershowitz about how this summer has been on the island, though the Trump ally said he was weary of speaking to The Atlantic.

“But, you know, it’s important that people get the whole context,” he said.

Dershowitz would “hold court” at the General Store, though he told Leibovich he did not like that characterization.

“I used to — not anymore,” he said.

He claimed he was only there, sitting on the porch, for the interview.

“Normally, we would have this whole area,” he said, waving at the rocking chairs on the porch of the store. “I would have Larry David here. Ted Danson was here sometimes. The guy who did Ghostbusters — he died a few years ago — he was here.”

He was speaking of Harold Ramis, the “Ghostbusters” co-star and “Groundhog Day” director, who passed away in 2014.

“The whole crew of Chilmark friends, I would say, 20 or so, no longer talk to me,” Dershowitz lamented to the reporter.

He revealed that a group of people is trying to get him banned from one of his favorite places, the Chilmark Tavern. He claimed that at one point he was sitting on the restaurant’s deck when a woman got out of her car, “saw I was up there, turned around, and went back to her car.”

“Ask her; you can check with her,” Dershowitz said, telling the reporter to confirm with “Jenny,” the Tavern’s proprietor.

But it is the David feud that continues to hurt the former Harvard professor.

“I allowed him to use my gym to work out,” Dershowitz said. “I helped him on a number of occasions.”

The two no longer speak, however. “He screams and yells at me when he sees me.” Dershowitz said he can no longer even watch “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” David’s semi-improvised HBO comedy, which ended in 2024 after twelve seasons.

Leibovich noticed that when talking about the feud, Dershowitz used the “present tense, describing their breach as if it were an active feud and a still-fresh wound.”

For his part, David was completely unaware that the feud was still going.

“I don’t know why he’s still thinking and talking about me,” David told The Atlantic. “I have lots of confrontations on my show but rarely in life. And then only if I think I can take them in a fight. Hence the Dershowitz dust-up.”

Source: Alternet