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The Redstone family used to control one of the world’s great media empires. Before Sumner Redstone split his holdings in two in 2005, Viacom was the third-largest media company in the US and one ...
While the superannuated media mogul Sumner Redstone has been reduced to immobility and to poking “yes,” “no,” and “fuck you” buttons on his iPad, his 64-year-old daughter, Shari ...
The last time much of Hollywood heard from Sydney Holland, she was in the midst of an acrimonious split from nonagenarian media mogul and chairman emeritus of CBS and Viacom Sumner Redstone.
The book, published by Penguin Random House in February, tells the sordid, behind-the-scenes story of the battle for control of Sumner Redstone’s media empire. The book has been the talk of the ...
From the outset, Sumner Redstone was a curiosity. A cluster of power players 50 years ago were suddenly bidding for control of Hollywood’s revered movie studios. Competition was intense but most ...
A decade ago, when he was still somewhat spry, Sumner Redstone had an existential crisis. The shocking collapse of Lehman Brothers was still reverberating through the capital markets, and the ...
Sumner Redstone, the media legend who built what is now ViacomCBS, died Tuesday at age 97, the company confirmed in a statement Wednesday. "Sumner was a true industry titan, a brilliant and driven ...
Sumner Redstone, the powerful ... from the Transformers franchise to Al Gore's landmark environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth. He’s also credited with pushing forward the careers ...
In life, Sumner Redstone expended considerable energy to promote his legend as a daring and cutthroat media mogul who amassed one of the world’s largest collections of TV and film assets.
A Los Angeles County judge on Wednesday denied a request by Sumner Redstone’s attorneys to bar the public from viewing certain portions of his healthcare trial. The request by the ailing 92-year ...
The last time much of Hollywood heard from Sydney Holland, she was in the midst of an acrimonious split from nonagenarian media mogul and chairman emeritus of CBS and Viacom Sumner Redstone.