“There’s been some talk about Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast combining...and there was this question of who would run the whole thing, Jeff or [WBD CEO David] Zaslav,' says one deal-maker. 'This clears the way for it because it becomes very simple.”
CEO had spent the day at the festival with his wife, Laura, in anticipation of the band’s first show in nearly a decade. Later, he took a seat alongside a leather-clad Kourtney Kardashian, whose long-running “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” holds a significant presence in the NBCUniversal spread, with all 20 seasons of the reality show having recently moved from Hulu to Peacock. But Shell wasn’t there on business.
In the immediate aftermath, Comcast’s stock price took a moderate dip — 1.4% — in the first day of trading post-bombshell as conspiracy theories swirled among Hollywood’s chattering class, with everyone from Anthony Pellicano to Vladimir Putin to Brian Roberts being tagged as the hidden hand behind the Shell shiv.
The investigation unearthed email exchanges between Shell and Gamble that “corroborated the allegations” of sexual harassment, and the CEO was fired “with cause,” according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing by Comcast. NBCUniversal declined further comment for this story.
Though little is known about the specifics of the alleged Gamble harassment, Duncan Levin, a celebrity defense attorney whose clients include Harvey Weinstein and Anna Delvey, says the fallout can extend well beyond the place of employment. “We all have a visceral sense of what sexual harassment is, which is inappropriate, unwanted sexual advances in the workplace or at work or a workplace that is rife with inappropriate behavior,” says Levin. “But it’s also a potential crime.
Regardless, Gamble’s Putin interview drew eye rolls internally at CNBC after she posted an image of herself on Instagram holding up the front page of a newspaper that showed the pair onstage at an angle that showed off her legs. “My best angle,” she wrote, with a “feminism” hashtag. She also posted a shot of a cake she was sent featuring Putin’s face and his comment about her being “too beautiful.
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