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Prarthana Prakash

Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, and Steven Spielberg have a new rep as French billionaire buys CAA, one of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies

Francois-Henri Pinault (Credit: David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

The billionaire Pinault family will play a leading role in Hollywood after agreeing to buy a majority stake in Creative Artists Agency, a talent management company that boasts Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg among the A-listers it represents. 

Artémis, French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault’s holding company which owns assets worth more than $40 billion, will buy an estimated 53% stake in CAA from private equity firm TPG, which first acquired a stake in the agency in 2010.

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