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Nicholas Gordon

Billionaire ex-head of Marvel said he was fired for complaining its films were too expensive

Disney CEO Bob Iger at a lavish Marvel media event with Paul Rudd (Antman), left, Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Robert Downey, Jr (Ironman), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) (Credit: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Billionaire Ike Perlmutter, the chairman of Marvel Entertainment, was one of the most high-profile casualties of The Walt Disney Company’s layoffs last week.

The entertainment company justified the job cuts, totaling 7,000 employees, as a way to slash costs and remove redundancies. 

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