Alan Dershowitz Reports Feud With Larry David Is Alive and Well: ‘He Screams and Yells at Me When He Sees Me’

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Alan Dershowitz said he is still a pariah on his beloved Martha’s Vineyard, and fellow island vacationer Larry David still won’t speak to him.

For several years now, Dershowitz has lamented his fallen status on the island, starting around the time he acted as defense counsel in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial. Dershowitz, a staunch Democrat for 67 years, registered as a Republican this year.

On Tuesday, The Atlantic published an interview with Dershowitz by Mark Leibovich, who spoke with the famous lawyer and professor emeritus at Harvard Law. The piece is titled, “Alan Dershowitz Won’t Forget What Larry David Did To Him.”

Until 2021, Dershowitz and the Seinfeld co-creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator were friends, or at least friendly with one another. But that year, there was an ugly encounter at the Chilmark General Store, which Leibovich recounted thus:

And then there was the infamous clash at the Chilmark General Store with Dershowitz’s now very-much-ex-friend Larry David. In the annals of Dershowitz’s social spiral on the Vineyard, this conflagration has taken on almost-mythic dimensions, like his own personal Stalingrad. Dershowitz was sitting on the porch of the store with another friend, “who happened to be a very kind of radical woke lefty from New York, but very tolerant,” he told me. David was not very tolerant, at least of Dershowitz. He walked onto the porch, refused to shake Dershowitz’s hand, called him “disgusting,” and stormed off. Dershowitz said at the time that David was so irate, Dershowitz worried that the comedian might suffer a stroke.

Five years later, Dershowitz claims that David still refuses to talk to him – except to yell at him whenever they cross paths:

“Larry David doesn’t talk to me anymore,” Dershowitz said at another point. “He screams and yells at me when he sees me.” He told me that he used to be a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm but can no longer bring himself to watch it. When discussing David, Dershowitz often spoke in the present tense, describing their breach as if it were an active feud and a still-fresh wound.

As for David, he was perplexed:

“I don’t know why he’s still thinking and talking about me,” he told me by email.

As for the five-year-old confrontation at the Chilmark store, David added this: “I have lots of confrontations on my show but rarely in life,” he said. “And then only if I think I can take them in a fight. Hence the Dershowitz dust-up.”

Dershowitz also noted that when his son, filmmaker Elon Dershowitz, died this year at age 64, David did not reach out to him.

“He’s 100 percent right,” David said of Dershowitz. “I should have reached out, and I certainly regret not doing so. As I said on Curb once, ‘I think of nice things. I just don’t act on them.’”

Dershowitz made waves on Martha’s Vineyard last year when he threatened to sue a pierogi vendor who refused to serve him.

“Bigoted vendor @ Martha’s Vineyard Farmer’s Market refused to sell to me for political reasons. I’m suing,” he posted in July 2026. A week later, Dershowitz returned to the scene of the Great Pierogi Denial and tried to get the vendor to serve him. It did not work.

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