Leslie Moonves
Julie Chen Moonves Says She “Felt Stabbed in the Back” Over ‘The Talk’ Exit, Spoke to Leslie Moonves About Sexual Misconduct Claims
Julie Chen Moonves said she questioned her husband, Leslie Moonves, over the 2018 sexual abuse allegations that resulted in his resignation as CBS CEO and disputed a previous statement that she made the decision to leave The Talk after a decade as co-host. Chen Moonves opened up about both topics, while also declining to discuss […]
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How Les Moonves and His CBS Loyalists Worked to Discredit Accuser: “It Was Sort of a Mafia Culture”
On Nov. 2, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she’d secured a $30.5 million settlement from CBS and its former president and CEO Leslie Moonves for misleading the company’s investors about his misconduct, concealing sexual assault allegations against him and related insider trading by another top CBS executive. Her office also released […]
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Budd Friedman, Founder of the Improv, Dies at 90
Budd Friedman, the comedy club pioneer who founded the original Improv in New York in 1963 and gave early career breaks to the likes of Jay Leno, Robert Klein, Bette Midler, Richard Pryor and Andy Kaufman, has died. He was 90. Friedman died Saturday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his […]
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Sumner Redstone, Tenacious Media Mogul, Dies at 97
Sumner Redstone, the hard-charging mogul who parlayed his father’s New England drive-in theater business into a media empire that includes ViacomCBS, has died at age 97.
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Why This CBS-Viacom Merger Will Be Different From 1999
In early September 1999, Viacom and CBS unveiled a roughly $35 billion stock combination — at the time the largest U.S. media deal ever — which was completed in 2000. They then agreed to separate in 2005 and the separation became effective in 2006. Fast-forward nearly two decades, and the two entertainment companies are recombining.
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Les Moonves Starts New Company Weeks After Leaving CBS
Les Moonves, fired by CBS over claims of sexual misconduct, has created three new companies under the banner "Moon Rise," according to a filing with the California Secretary of State.
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Stephen Colbert Mocks Les Moonves Over Loss of $120M Severance
After news broke that Leslie Moonves will not be getting his $120 million severance, as CBS concluded after a months-long investigation, Stephen Colbert addressed the network’s CEO during Monday night's 'Late Show.'
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CBS Picks 18 Advocacy Groups to Get $20M As Part of Moonves Exit
CBS Corp. has detailed which "organizations dedicated to fostering safe and equitable work environments and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace" would get portions of the $20 million that it had previously said it would be donating as part of its separation agreement with former CEO Leslie Moonves.
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CBS’ Acting CEO Says Press Reports of Leslie Moonves’ Leaked Misconduct Report Are “Troubling”
In a memo issued Thursday to employees, CBS acting CEO Joe Ianniello attempted to rally and steady company morale after a draft report into Leslie Moonves' alleged workplace misconduct was leaked to the media.
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New Leslie Moonves Exposé Could Cost Former Mogul $120 Million
A devastating new exposé about Leslie Moonves that includes reprinted text messages exchanged by the disgraced mogul and a talent agent allegedly helping him hide an incident of sexual misconduct is putting pressure on CBS to finish an investigation into its former CEO to determine whether it should pay him $120 million it has earmarked for him.
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Julie Chen Moonves Officially Returning to CBS as Host of ‘Big Brother’
Julie Chen Moonves will return to host season two of the celebrity edition of 'Big Brother' on Jan. 21.
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Leslie Moonves Shuts Down a Possible Return to TV: “I’m Retired”
Former CBS CEO and chairman Les Moonves shut down the idea of a return to television, insisting that he's "retired."
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