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Just days ago, Logan Roy paid a surprise visit to the American Television Network newsroom and delivered a saber-rattling speech outlining an aggressive vision for the conservative cable news network as it heads into a presidential election.It was midafternoon, and standing atop boxes of printer paper, the embattled chief executive of media conglomerate Waystar Royco urged his employees to vanquish ATN’s rivals, reducing them to “f— jam smears on the highway.” After years marked by declining health, embarrassing scandals…

Seymour Stein, the music executive who launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and the Ramones, and introduced the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Smiths to America, has died aged 80.Stein died on Sunday morning in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer, a spokesperson for the family confirmed to Variety.As the co-founder of label Sire Records, Stein nurtured talents spanning pop to punk to new wave, including Madonna, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Depeche Mode, the Ramones, the Pretenders, the Smiths, the Cure, the…

Jay-Z’s net worth soars to $2.5 billion ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has seen his net worth soar to a new height. He boasts a fortune of $2.5 billion. According to a Forbes report on Friday (March 24), Jay-Z is now the 1,203rd wealthiest person on the planet. French business magnate Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, currently sits at No. 1, with a reported valuation of $216.1 billion, reports ‘aceshowbiz.com’. The report notes that the Grammy Award-winning artist’s fortune…

Winklevoss vs Silbert: At issue is $900 million of Gemini client funds that sit frozen inside DCG Winklevoss vs Silbert: After weeks of uncertainty, Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss has expressed some satisfaction following the filing for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 by Genesis Trading, a subsidiary of Digital currency Group. According to Winklevoss, Genesis will be required to provide documentation on how the situation led to this stage. Notably, Genesis Trading and Gemini cryptocurrency exchange entered…

Harvey Weinstein’s youngest known accuser, former model Kaja Sokola, has spoken out against the movie mogul. She was 16 when she first met the movie producer at an event. He was 50 at the time. Now 35, Sokola has opened up to tell her story in a new interview with Rolling Stone.Some readers may find details in this article upsetting“People at the event said, ‘This is the king of Hollywood, and he can make everything happen,’” Sokola recalled of her first encounter with Weinstein. “He said, ‘If you want to be an actress, I…

Hernan Diaz’s second novel, Trust, is a collection of four manuscripts at different stages of completion, and they tell different versions of the story of a Wall Street businessman and his wife in the years leading up to the Great Depression. In Bonds, ostensibly a bestselling novel authored by one Harold Vanner, a monkish mogul manages to make a massive windfall during the 1929 stock market crash while his wife tragically succumbs to mental illness far away in Switzerland. My Life is the partial autobiography of Andrew…

Lasting in any music genre for two decades is not the easiest of feats, but Lethal Bizzle has stood the test of grime’s turbulent time. The 37-year-old emcee-turned-entrepreneur’s journey begins in 2002, first as a member of the East London trio More Fire Crew—whose debut single, “Oi”, was a Top 10 hit and remains a classic draw in Black British clubland—and then as a solo artist and executive producer, creating some of the most iconic grime hits known to man or woman.One of those iconic grime hits came in the form of a…

Days into his role as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, WBD -1.99% David Zaslav gathered movie-studio executives and grilled them about a recent string of box-office flops, including “Cry Macho,” a Clint Eastwood neo-Western.Warner Bros. executives conceded they had doubted the movie would turn a profit, people familiar with the meeting said. Why, Mr. Zaslav asked, was “Cry Macho” made if they had reservations? When they replied that Mr.…