The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of 'Unscripted,' an investigative chronicle of media mogul Sumner Redstone’s final years, freshly explore questionable conduct in his corporate realm as well as the lurid drama that engulfed his personal life.
Those two women, Sydney Holland and Manuela Herzer, who for a time toward the end of the mogul’s life resided in Redstone’s Beverly Park mansion, ended up rich. By the time he ultimately rid himself of them, the authors report, citing a lawsuit, the pair had taken him for more than $150 million. spoke to Stewart and Abrams about their book, its novelistic cast of characters and what they learned in their reporting. The interview has been edited for publication.
Why should readers care about your telling of this saga, whether they’ve known nothing about it or they’ve been closely following previous press coverage over the past decade?This book is about the collision of the #MeToo movement with corporate governance. It’s a look in real time at a company that was slow to adapt to modernity: technologically, culturally. I think it is very illustrative of the ways that corporate governance can completely fail.
Are the workplace failures you reveal at CBS and what was then Viacom specific to their cultures and structures, or are they emblematic of larger issues and currents in corporate America?Imperial CEOs who are surrounded by people that are loyal to them, who are also of their ilk: There’s no reason that that would be unique to entertainment., which was inspired in part by the Redstone family saga.
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