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But faced with the elder abuse: Holland Cross-Complaint at 20, Redstone v. Herzer and Holland.
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“Sydney may be forced”: Holland Cross-Complaint at 20, Redstone v. Herzer and Holland.
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“knew about Redstone’s largest”: Holland Cross-Complaint at 20, Redstone v. Herzer and Holland.
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Klieger responded that Holland’s: Ashley Cullins, “Sumner Redstone Ex Asks Court to Order Independent Medical Evaluation,” Hollywood Reporter, January 18, 2017.
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restraining order against him: Sydney Holland v. George M. Pilgrim, case no. SQ007229, order dated January 8, 2016.
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three years’ probation: Criminal Case Summary, Los Angeles Superior Court, Van Nuys Courthouse West, sentencing date April 13, 2016.
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“Knowing that her father’s”: Complaint at 1, Manuela Herzer v. Shari Redstone, Tyler Korff et al. (United States District Court Central District of California) (Case No. 2:17-cv-07545-PSG (KSx)).
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Herzer’s complaint alleged: Complaint at 6, Herzer v. Redstone, Korff et al.
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Season 2, Episode 10: “Don’t Go Near This”
With CBS the most-watched: Lisa de Moraes, “NBC Wins 2016–17 Season in Ratings Demo; CBS Takes Total Viewers,” Deadline, May 23, 2017.
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More fundamentally, Moonves was willing: Keach Hagey and Joe Flint, “Redstone Daughter Seeks a Viacom Reunion,” Wall Street Journal, September 29, 2016.
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essentially requiring the Redstones: Verified Complaint at 21, CBS et al. v. NAI, Shari Redstone et al. (In the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware) (Civil Action No. 2018-0342-AGB).
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The Redstones’ initial letter: Joe Flint, “Two Wary Moguls Hold Key to CBS Deal,” Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2016.
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On December 12, the companies: Keach Hagey, Joe Flint, and Joshua Jamerson, “Redstones Abandon Plan to Merge Viacom and CBS,” Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2016.
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“We know Viacom has”: “National Amusements, Inc. Asks Boards of CBS and Viacom to Discontinue Exploration of a Potential Combination,” PR Newswire, December 12, 2016.
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She proposed meeting for coffee: Memorandum Opinion, December 29, 2020, at 61, In re: Viacom Inc. Stockholders Litigation (In the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware) (Civil Action No. 2020-0111-JRS).
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was often rumored: Glenn Thrush, “Obama Consults on SCOTUS Choice,” Politico, April 21, 2010.
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Newton Minow, had been chair: “ ‘Wasteland’ Revisited: Newton Minow Looks Back at His FCC Tempest and Forward to the Future of Televised Debates,” Broadcasting & Cable, February 29, 2016.
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as a “vast wasteland”: “ ‘Wasteland’ Revisited.”
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Shari had maintained: Kim Masters and Paul Bond, “Shari Redstone Explores Plan to Launch Fox News Competitor (Exclusive),” Hollywood Reporter, October 15, 2019.
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“tremendous supporter of me personally”: Kim Masters, “Shari Redstone Named THR’s Women in Entertainment Executive of the Year,” Hollywood Reporter, December 6, 2016.
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They’d served together: “2012 JFK Profile in Courage Award Winners Announced,” Targeted News Service, March 12, 2012.
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She’d made the pilgrimage: “Sumner Redstone Makes Donation to Harvard Law School in Support of Public Service,” Professional Services Close-Up Business Insights, January 24, 2014.
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“It galls me to this day”: Sumner Redstone, A Passion to Win (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).
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When she went over: Irin Carmon, “Last Woman Standing,” New York, July 8, 2019.
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“I hear you’re upset”: Carmon, “Last Woman Standing.”
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“Everyone at CBS”: Jessica Toonkel, “CBS’ CEO Moonves Says Viacom Undervalued,” Reuters, May 19, 2017.
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Ianniello also got: Keach Hagey and Joe Flint, “Shari Redstone Alleges CBS CEO Threatened to Quit If Board Didn’t Strip Redstones of Control,” Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2018, www.wsj.com/articles/shari-redstone-alleges-cbs-ceo-threatened-to-quit-if-board-didnt-strip-redstones-of-control-1527608926.
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Minow was the top vote getter: CBS Corporation, SEC Form 8-K: Current Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, May 9, 2017.
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Klieger assumed Sumner’s: “Robert Klieger Elected to CBS Board of Directors,” Hueston Hennigan, July 28, 2017.
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“Is The New York Times about”: Kim Masters and Chris Gardner, “Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Battling N.Y. Times, New Yorker over Potentially Explosive Stories,” Hollywood Reporter, October 4, 2017.
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over three hundred Oscar nominations: Neda Ulaby, “Harvey Weinstein Expelled from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences,” NPR, October 14, 2017.
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The Times article, by reporters: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades,” New York Times, October 5, 2017.
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Weinstein conceded he had: Kantor and Twohey, “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off.”
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The Weinstein Company board: Andrew Limbong, “Weinstein Company Fires Co-founder Harvey Weinstein,” NPR Morning Edition, October 9, 2017.
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The New Yorker article by Ronan: Ronan Farrow, “From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories,” New Yorker, October 10, 2017.
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“You can do anything”: David A. Farenthold, “Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation about Women in 2005,” Washington Post, October 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html.
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Bill O’Reilly, the star: Manuel Roig-Franzia and Ben Terris, “ ‘The Mission Was to Bring Down Bill O’Reilly’: The Final Days of a Fox News Superstar,” Washington Post, April 21, 2017.
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Roger Ailes, the head: Paul Farhi, “Roger Ailes Resigns as CEO of Fox News; Rupert Murdoch Will Be Acting CEO,” Washington Post, July 21, 2016.
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he was eventually convicted: Mamta Balkar, “Bill Cosby Convicted of Sexual Assault,” Financial Times, April 26, 2018.
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the conviction was later overturned: “Bill Cosby’s Accusers React to His Overturned Conviction,” NBC Nightly News, June 30, 2021.
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coined by sexual abuse awareness activist: Mary Pflum, “A Year Ago, Alyssa Milano Started a Conversation about #MeToo. These Women Replied,” NBC News, October 15, 2018.
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“If you’ve been sexually harassed”: Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano), “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this,” Twitter, October 15, 2017, 1:21 p.m., https://twitter.com/alyssa_milano/status/919659438700670976?lang=en.
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“the patron saint of actresses”: David Remnick, “Illeana Douglas Steps Forward, and Rachel Carson at Sea,” New Yorker Radio Hour, September 14, 2018.
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“son and his brother-in-law”: Michael Schulman, “Ronan Farrow: The Youngest Old Guy in the Room,” New York Times, October 25, 2013.
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And Farrow had backed his sister: Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (New York: Little Brown, 2019).
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Farrow had graduated: Schulman, “Ronan Farrow: The Youngest Old Guy.”
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As a journalist, he’d looked: Erik Wemple, “Here’s the Cosby-Oriented Interview That Ronan Farrow Laments,” Washington Post, May 11, 2016.
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and sexual abuse on campus: Matt Lauer and Ronan Farrow, “It’s Also a Dangerous Time Right Now at This Moment When It Comes to This Issue, Sexual Assault on Campus,” Today, October 12, 2016.
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had initially been researching Weinstein: Farrow, Catch and Kill, 403–5.
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her grandfather was: “Illeana Douglas,” Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, vol. 70 (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2006).
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Douglas met Moonves in 1996: Ronan Farrow, “Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct,” New Yorker, July 27, 2018.
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After appearing in his films: Remnick, “Illeana Douglas Steps Forward.”
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In 1997 CBS had cast her: Farrow, “Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations.”
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When she and Moonves met: Farrow, “Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations.”
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“In a millisecond”: Farrow, “Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations.”
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disheveled and crying: Farrow, “Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations.”
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who became tabloid fodder: Chris Gardner, “Jeff Bezos Battle Begins to Rattle National Enquirer Insiders,” Hollywood Reporter, February 13, 2019.
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Season 3, Episode 1: “We All Did That”
As Bing he’d published: Richard Sandomir, “Gil Schwartz, CBS Spokesman with Alter Ego Who Mocked Corporate Misdeeds, Dies at 68,” New York Times, May 8, 2020.
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“The ability to feel deep”: Stanley Bing, “If Tonya Did Business,” Esquire, June 1, 1994.
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Moonves responded with a high: Stephen Battaglio, “Gil Schwartz, Longtime CBS Communications Executive and Author, Dies,” Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2020.
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He’d had to bat down: George Rush and Joanna Molloy with Suzanne Rozdeba and Ben Widdicombe, “Moonves’ Marriage May Get an Airing,” New York Daily News, April 23, 2003.
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a veteran television producer: Meg James and Richard Winton, “ ‘This Has Been with Me the Whole Time’: Accuser Talks to CBS Investigators in Moonves Inquiry,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2018.
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“For those of you tuning in”: Ty Duffy, Ryan Glasspiegel, and Dan Reilly, “How Late-Night Hosts Discussed Louis C.K.,” Vulture, November 10, 2017, https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/stephen-colbert-louis-ck-1202611764/.
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For Golden-Gottlieb, the revelation: James and Winton, “ ‘This Has Been with Me.’ ”
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There he parked: Ronan Farrow, “As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Six Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims,” New Yorker, September 9, 2018.
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Two years later she was in: Farrow, “As Leslie Moonves Negotiates.”
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The next day he berated her: Farrow, “As Leslie Moonves Negotiates.”
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Berk preferred to work: Ann O’Neill, “Blair Berk Makes Stars’ Legal Scrapes Disappear,” CNN, October 4, 2010.
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“The applicable statutes of limitation”: “L.A. Prosecutors Decline to Pursue Sex Abuse Charges against CBS CEO Moonves,” Reuters, July 31, 2018.
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at Kopelson’s urging: Rachel Abrams and Edmund Lee, “Les Moonves Obstructed Investigation into Misconduct Claims, Report Says,” New York Times, December 4, 2018.
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“the early-morning light filtering”: Anne L. Peters, “A Physician’s Place in the #MeToo Movement,” Annals of Internal Medicine 168, no. 9 (May 1, 2018): 676–77.
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Moonves grabbed her: Peters, “A Physician’s Place.”
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that of a “monster”: Peters, “A Physician’s Place.”
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He left the room: Abrams and Lee, “Les Moonves Obstructed Investigation.”
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When Peters reported the incident: Peters, “A Physician’s Place.”
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Kopelson had brushed aside: James B. Stewart, “ ‘Disaster for CBS Shareholders’: Damning Report on Moonves Reveals Total Failure at Top,” New York Times, December 4, 2018.
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“we all did that”: Stewart, “ ‘Disaster for CBS Shareholders.’ ”
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The little-known Zimmerman: John Koblin and Prashant S. Rao, “Hoda Kotb Named to Replace Matt Lauer as Co-anchor of NBC’s ‘Today,’ ” New York Times, January 2, 2018.
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Longtime director Linda Griego: Amended Verified Complaint at 9, CBS Corporation, Gary L. Countryman et al. v. National Amusements Inc., Shari Redstone et al. (In the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware) (Civil Action No. 2018-0342-AGB).
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Just two days later: Irin Carmon and Amy Brittain, “Eight Women Say Charlie Rose Sexually Harassed Them—with Nudity, Groping and Lewd Calls,” Washington Post, November 20, 2017.
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The behavior identified by the Post: Carmon and Brittain, “Eight Women Say Charlie Rose.”
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Rose conceded he “had behaved”: Carmon and Brittain, “Eight Women Say Charlie Rose.”
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both CBS and PBS fired: “CBS Fires Charlie Rose After Sexual Misconduct Allegations,” CBS News, November 21, 2017.
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“I’ve enjoyed a friendship”: Erik Wemple, “CBS News Makes Quick Work of Charlie Rose,” Washington Post, November 21, 2017.
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Moonves was the keynote speaker: Leslie Moonves, “Photos from Variety’s 2017 Innovate Summit.”
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NBC finally fired Matt Lauer: David Folkenflik, “NBC Fires ‘Today’ Host Matt Lauer Following Complaint of ‘Inappropriate Sexual Behavior,’ ” All Things Considered, NPR, November 29, 2017.
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