An MTV Mogul’s Wild Tales: From Sex Clubs with Sumner Redstone to Advising David Ellison

Cable pioneer and ex-Viacom CEO Tom Freston is out with a new book, "Unplugged," and some amazing stories.

The Hollywood Reporter

Paramount’s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes “Smart Move” By Sumner Redstone But “Huge Disappointment” For Barry Diller
#Executives #News #BarryDiller #JohnMalone #PaleyCenterforMedia #ParamountPictures #SumnerRedstone

https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-merger-saga-john-malone-sumner-redstone-barry-diller-1236507848/

Paramount’s Previous Merger Saga Revisited: John Malone Concedes “Smart Move” By Sumner Redstone But “Huge Disappointment” For Barry Diller

Media moguls and frequent deal collaborators John Malone and Barry Diller spent time Thursday recalling the one that got away: Paramount Pictures.

Deadline
Sumner Redstone Has Street Named After Him In New York’s Times Square

New York City honored late media titan Sumner Redstone by renaming part of West 44th Street outside Paramount Global headquarters Sumner Redstone Way.

Deadline
Matthew Perry’s Drug Dealer Was Once Scarlett Johansson’s Director and ‘Surreal Life’ Producer

Erik Fleming now faces up to 25 years in his federal case. He previously ran a production company bankrolled by Sumner Redstone.

The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood giant Paramount Global braces for new era as bidders circle

Chair Shari Redstone weighs future of media empire behind Paramount Pictures, CBS and UK’s Channel 5

The Guardian
CJ Group’s Miky Lee to Give USC School of Cinematic Arts Commencement Address

'The Immigrant' director and writer James Gray will receive the Mary Pickford Alumni Award at the 2024 graduation ceremony on May 10.

The Hollywood Reporter
As opposed to the legalization of #SumnerRedstone's feelings about his daughter & #LilianeBettencourt's obsession with her photographer:
May the years-long #US music sector crash be due to judicial denial of evidence that #MichaelJackson's last will stands violated?
#CoolICanWait
May the argument for judicial prioritization of the family system be made via a number of grave (current & historic) financial precedents, e.g.:
#SumnerRedstone's feud with his daughter>Disastrous stock falls in the last month at @wbd, @NBCUniversal, @FOXCorp, etc.?
#CoolICanWait
Jonathan Dolgen Dead: Viacom Entertainment Group Chairman Was 78

Sumner Redstone's first big hire after the Paramount acquisition, he enjoyed a fruitful decade-long partnership with Sherry Lansing. 

The Hollywood Reporter

Sumner Redstone: book reveals media mogul’s ‘astonishing saga of sex, lies and betrayal’

"a new account of the career of media mogul #SumnerRedstone, who died in 2020 at the age of 97, reveals just how awful, shocking and abusive that culture was at one of America’s biggest media empires."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/18/sumner-redstone-family-viacom-unscripted-book #books @bookstodon #media

Sumner Redstone: book reveals media mogul’s ‘astonishing saga of sex, lies and betrayal’

New account details just how awful, shocking and abusive that culture was at one of America’s biggest media empires

The Guardian