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Paramount has agreed to pay $122.5 million to settle a 2019 lawsuit by Viacom shareholders over the company’s merger with CBS.

UPDATE, APRIL 17, 2:11 PM: Les Moonves has settled his debts with the City of Los Angeles, at least financially.

Hilary Swank is addressing former CBS chairman and CEO Les Moonves.

Los Angeles’ Ethics Commission has rejected Les Moonves’ $11,250 settlement with the city over information leaked to the once powerful CBS CEO by a LAPD officer about sexual assault allegations.

A former 60 Minutes producer claims she was falsely fired from the long running newsmagazine show last year, and now she’s suing CBS, CBS News and parent company Paramount Global for discrimination – and naming a lot of names.

Julie Chen Moonves is turning the other cheek.

Emily Longeretta Julie Chen Moonves is sharing her side of the story. In her new audiobook, “But First, God,” the television personality opens up for the first time about how she found her faith in 2018 following the ouster of husband, Les Moonves, who was forced to step down as the chairman of CBS after he was accused of sexual assault and sexual misconduct. At the time, Chen Moonves also exited “The Talk,” a decision she claims that she was pressured into.

It has been exactly five years since Julie Chen Moonves left her hosting gig on The Talk and now she’s sharing the real story behind what happened.

“Big Brother” host Julie Chen Moonves didn’t have a say about her exit from “The Talk” in 2018, claiming that CBS had the final call.“That was a hard time,” Chen Moonves, 53, told “Good Morning America” on Monday, while promoting her new audio memoir, “But First, God.”She continued: “I felt stabbed in the back. I was, you know.”The TV personality moderated the daytime talk show for eight years before leaving in September 2018.

Julie Chen Moonves is speaking out about her 2018 exit from “The Talk”.

Ahead of Big Brother‘s return to CBS with season 25, Julie Chen Moonves is opening up to ET about who the network originally wanted as host and how much longer she sees herself working on the reality TV competition.

Julie Chen Moonves has revealed that Meredith Vieira was actually offered the Big Brother hosting gig before her.

's return to CBS with season 25, Julie Chen Moonves is opening up to ET about who the network originally wanted as host and how much longer she sees herself working on the reality TV competition.  When asked if there's anything the fans of the hit series — which sees a group of strangers forced to co-exist in a shared house while they are isolated from the outside world — don't know, Moonves says that CBS wanted another daytime TV fixture to host. «I wasn't the first choice to host.

Hollywood is at a crossroads and the 160,000 actors that make up SAG-AFTRA are seemingly in the driver’s seat.

Donald Trump‘s ongoing sexual assault trial Thursday of the former president mistaking a photo of accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.During an October deposition, Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, handed Trump a photo and asked him to identify who was in it. The late-1980s photo featured Trump, his wife at the time Ivana Trump, Carroll and Carroll’s ex-husband John Johnson.

Paramount Global said that, pending court approval, it will receive $167.5 million in settlement of a suit by shareholders of the former CBS Corp. against some of the broadcaster’s former officers and directors, including Shari Redstone and Joseph Ianiello. Called a derivative suit, it’s filed on behalf of the company, whose parent is getting the cash.

securities filing. CBS shareholders had alleged that it overpaid for Viacom in 2019 so that Shari Redstone could consolidate her family’s media empire.According to a securities filing Friday, the company will be paid $167.5 million to settle the suit.

Susan Zirinsky has criticized documentarians who pay their contributors as she urges her fellow execs to “keep your moral compass.”

From the outset, Sumner Redstone was a curiosity.

Tom Brady might regret his thoughts on the 2004 “nipplegate” at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

As Paramount Global prepares to report quarterly earnings Thursday, with CEO Bob Bakish presiding and Shari Redstone happily ensconced as non-executive chair, a new book is bringing forth some interesting (and at times lurid) revelations about the company’s tortuous journey.

A captain at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) directly and repeatedly interfered with an open investigation into allegations of sexual assault against former CBS CEO Moonves, New York Attorney General Letitia James said today.

Former CBS chief Les Moonves and Paramount Global have agreed to pay an additional $9.75 million to resolve an investigation by the New York State Attorney General’s office.

In a fickle TV business where the top network posts rank at the bottom for job security, we lost two of the longest-tenured executives in just a couple of days, the CW Chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz, who stepped down Monday, and David Nevins, Chairman and CEO, Paramount Premium Group and Chief Creative Officer, Paramount+ Scripted Series, whose exit was announced today. Both were around the 12-year mark in their jobs.

her controversial partner. Chen Moonves’ husband, Les Moonves, stepped down as the CEO of CBS in 2018 following allegations of workplace misconduct and sexual harassment. Another victim alleged that he tried to silence her by offering her a job at the network.

Shareholders of the former CBS have settled a long-running securities class action lawsuit with the company over its handling of sexual assault allegations against former CEO Les Moonves. The $14.75 million cash payout covers shareholders of CBS from November 2017 to July 2018.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterCBS shareholders have reached a $14.75 million settlement in their securities lawsuit against the network for what it relayed about the sexual misconduct allegations against disgraced former chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves and how his #MeToo comments affected the company.In a filing obtained by Variety Monday, CBS shareholders wrote, “Lead Plaintiff and Defendants have negotiated, at arm’s length and with the assistance of an experienced and neutral mediator, a proposed settlement of all claims in this Action for $14,750,000 in cash. This resolution, which falls well within the range of possible approval, involved a thorough investigation, extensive motion practice, consultation with an expert on damages and loss causation, and a formal mediation involving rigorous and extensive negotiations.” Representatives for CBS declined to comment Tuesday.In January 2020, a federal judge in New York allowed the shareholder lawsuit against CBS Corp.

Take-Two Interactive, publisher of video games including Grand Theft Auto is acquiring Farmville maker Zynga for $12.7 billion, creating a bulked-up gaming giant.

The CW may get a new majority owner. Fifteen years after the broadcast network’s launch, its co-parents, ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia, are considering a controlling stake sale, sources confirm to Deadline. Nexstar Media Group, which is the CW’s largest affiliate group following its acquisition of Tribune, is believed to be among interested buyers. Sources caution that conversations with multiple suitors are in exploratory stages and no deal is imminent.

Ronan Farrow’s reporting has brought down such Hollywood heavyweights as Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves, and now the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist has set his sights on Britney Spears’ controversial conservatorship.

NEW YORK -- ViacomCBS said Friday that former CBS CEO Les Moonves will not get his $120 million severance package from his firing in 2018, ending a long-running dispute over the money.Moonves was ousted in 2018 after a company investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct spanning three decades found Moonves violated company policy and did not cooperate with the investigation.But Moonves challenged the decision and his $120 million severance was set aside until the matter could be

Nearly three years after Les Moonves was tossed off his perch at CBS over allegations of sexual misconduct, the one time corporate powerhouse has finally settled his $120 million exit package with the Sheri Redstone controlled company, kind of.

Charlie Sheen regreted not taking former CBS boss Les Moonves' advice and checking into rehab as his life spiralled out of control a decade ago. Marking the 10th anniversary of his "winning and tiger blood" meltdown following his departure from the hit TV show Two and a Half Men, the actor told Yahoo! Entertainment he's glad that part of his life is over.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA Delaware judge has allowed CBS stockholders to sue over the 2019 merger of Viacom and CBS, finding a reasonable claim that former CBS chief Joseph Ianniello “sold” his support for the deal to Shari Redstone in exchange for a $125 million payout.Ianniello was president and chief operating officer under former CEO Les Moonves, and he sided with Moonves in trying to block the merger, arguing it would be bad for CBS.

was first reported by The Information. Bloomberg added that Bakish was accused of inappropriate touching by an employee.Also Read: Bob Bakish Explains Why ViacomCBS Chose Paramount+ Name for Rebranded Streaming ServiceIn 2016, Bakish was acting CEO of Viacom, three years before it would re-merge with CBS.