David Ellison made one thing abundantly clear on his first official day as the owner of the new Paramount – he did not want to get into whether a side deal was reached as part of the pre-merger $16 million lawsuit settlement paid to Donald Trump.
After a grueling and politically tainted 13-month process, Skydance Media’s $8.4 billion merger with Paramount Global officially closed Thursday. Weeks before Trump’s Federal Communications Commission finally approved the deal, however, Paramount – then led by Shari Redstone – agreed to settle with the president in his “meritless” complaint about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.
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