CBS director who recorded Sumner Redstone says he wasn't sneaking shots

Kopelson, who first met Redstone at a 2001 dinner party, said he and the media mogul became best friends and attended screening parties over the years

A CBS director accused of secretly recording Sumner Redstone says he wasn’t skulking around when he trained his iPhone on the ailing billionaire.
 
Arnold Kopelson, a movie producer and long-time pal of Redstone, said he often photographed the controlling shareholder of CBS and Viacom during their 17-year friendship. Kopelson’s video could be used to show Redstone’s mental state — and that’s made it a controversial piece of potential evidence in a corporate wrestling match over control of CBS.
 
“There was nothing secretive about this video recording at all,” Kopelson said in a court filing in a Delaware lawsuit