The 35-year-old actor is best known for playing Blake Moran in the CBS series
Madam Secretary and for starring in the
Jersey Boys movie. During the pandemic, he teamed up with
Rosie O’Donnell to bring back her talk show as a virtual fundraiser for the Actors Fund and he parlayed that into a successful new career as a virtual event producer.
Erich is being sued by MZA Events, the company who put on the virtual
AIDS Walk: Live at Home telecast. The company says that
Erich was hired to film a video of
David Furnish accepting a lifetime achievement award. They claim the actor held the video “hostage” in the days leading up to the event, according to