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Aug 12, 2020 · Media titan Sumner Redstone, who built the company Viacom into a global empire, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97. Through shrewd investing and strategic deal-making, Redstone...
Aug 12, 2020 · (14 min) Sumner Redstone, a ruthless litigator and shrewd deal maker, has died. WSJ's Keach Hagey, who wrote the only biography on the media mogul, and WSJ media editor Amol Sharma recount his...
Aug 12, 2020 · Sumner Redstone, a towering figure in media who built his father’s drive-in theater business into an empire that included Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS Corp., only to see his legacy...
Aug 12, 2020 · Sumner Redstone, one of the US media giants who shaped the modern entertainment industry, has died at the age of 97. Redstone took over his father's drive-in movie theatre business National...
Aug 12, 2020 · Sumner Redstone, who joined his family’s drive-in movie chain in the 1950s and used it to build a vast media empire that included CBS and Viacom, has died. He was 97. Under his watch, Viacom...
Aug 12, 2020 · Sumner Redstone in 2012, before the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died Tuesday. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters. By Edmund Lee. Published Aug. 12, 2020 Updated Dec. 24, 2023.
Aug 12, 2020 · Sumner Redstone, Media Titan and Longtime Friend of BU, Has Died. Viacom head, founder of The Redstones, BU’s annual film festival, had declared: “Content is king” August 12, 2020. 2. BU Today staff. To the world at large, Sumner Redstone (Hon.’94) was a self-made, Type A corporate titan.
