(Exclusive.) On Saturday evening at the Kalorama D.C. home of fixer and crisis comms pro Juleanna Glover, an elite set of D.C. power players will gather for a book party to toast the release of New York Times reporter Ken Vogel’s book Devil’s Advocates: The Hidden Story of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and the Washington Insiders on the Payrolls of Corrupt Foreign Interests.

Glover, who has played devil's advocate for everyone from Elon Musk to James Murdoch, is known for regularly bringing together influential journalists, lobbyists, and politicians in her D.C. residence.

In August, Breaker revealed that she was representing South African businessman André Pienaar, who is the founder and chief executive of investment firm C5 Capital. 

In an extraordinary legal maneuver, Pienaar retained husband and wife law firm Clare Locke, founded by Tom Clare and Libby Locke, to sue a reporter from the Associated Press, Alan Suderman, for defamation before a story he was working on had even been published. 

Clare Locke previously represented New York Times journalist Glenn Thrush, ahead of a Vox story alleging claims of sexual harassment involving young female journalists. At the same time, they were litigated against the New York Times, representing Sarah Palin in a defamation case after the newspaper published an editorial about her.

Clare Locke has also sent legal threats to The Times on behalf of Project Veritas, Oleg Deripaska, NYU Langone, Credit Suisse, and Bill Gates’ money manager, Michael Larson. 

Pienaar’s lawsuit against Suderman was headed to discovery when, as we reported, Clare Locke quietly dropped it in April. Months later, Pienaar was appointed to the Washington Post’s Intelligence Global Security Council, which, in an uncanny coincidence, also includes Glover. 

As we first reported, both Glover and Pienaar are now being sued for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and civil conspiracy by Kenneth Glueck, the executive vice president for government relations at Oracle Corporation.

Glueck is alleging that at another event at Glover’s home in October 2024, a select group of journalists were briefed by Glover and Pienaar regarding the AP piece, pinning the blame for it on Glueck. 

The lawsuit alleges the October meeting was “part of a broader campaign” – pitching other journalists – planned and executed by Pienaar and Glover to redirect attention from Pienaar’s own business failures by claiming that Pienaar’s troubles were somehow of Glueck’s making. 

The lawsuit claims Glover and Pienaar claimed to the journos that Glueck "used fraudulent documents, lied about Pienaar’s involvement with a Russian oligarch, improperly induced an AP article, and made these lies as part of Glueck’s modus operandi to present false narratives about his enemies to destroy them for personal animus."

“Glover premised her most outrageous claims with the proviso that they were 'off the record,” the court's docs say. “For example, and this is off the record. The AP article was purely a vehicle to run the dossier on Andre. That’s all that article was.”  

In court documents obtained and viewed by Breaker this week, Glover now claims that…