Well, this had more information than earlier posts.
Now I don’t feel for the reporter at all. He should have had his mom come get him.
If I was the editor and found my reporter agreed to be shut in a closet, I would fire him on the spot and give him a $20 out of my pocket so he could go look for his spine.
From the report, he has no legal case at all. He was free to leave, any time he wanted to, and voluntarily chose to stay. His beef is access to the glitterati, and nobody has a right to that.