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It was described as a family saga detailing the chaotic life and death of Sumner Redstone, former chairman of Viacom and CBS, including his relationships with women and his daughter Sherry's battles to wrest control of the media empire away from them. The book also covers the Les Moonves scandal at CBS.
Sumner Redstone was one of the most important media moguls in American history and at one point his empire included brands that all of our listeners are going to be familiar with CBS, Paramount, MTV,...
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It was described as a family saga detailing the chaotic life and death of Sumner Redstone, former chairman of Viacom and CBS, including his relationships with women and his daughter Sherry's battles to wrest control of the media empire away from them. The book also covers the Les Moonves scandal at CBS.
Sumner Redstone was one of the most important media moguls in American history and at one point his empire included brands that all of our listeners are going to be familiar with CBS, Paramount, MTV, Nickelodeon.
It's really a family saga. It's the father-daughter relationship, which I think it tends to be unexplored, certainly in nonfiction.
I've been sort of joking and describing this book as King Lear meets Weekend at Bernie's because it's toward the end of his life, these two women and other people come in and basically, you know, begin to siphon off millions of dollars.
I honestly think a lot of his success, I mean, first of all, he acquired the assets and he was right that over time they were going to become more valuable. He borrowed a lot of money. He hooked up with Michael Milken, the junk bond era.
It's called Unscripted, The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy.