Last week actress/producer Reese Witherspoon announced publicly that she was getting divorced from her husband of 12 years, Jim Toth. While all reports have been that the split is amicable and the two are committed to co-parenting their son Tennessee together, there are natural questions regarding what led to the split. And one of the things that has recently come up is how failed streaming platform Quibi fits into the story.
Jim Toth had been a talent agent with CAA for 23 years when he made the decision to leave the company in 2019 in order to join Quibi, the short-form, video streaming service started by former Disney and Dreamworks executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. Toth was the platform’s head of content acquisitions and talent. According to Radar Online, who spoke with an “insider” the move was something of a gamble, and Witherspoon was less sure than Toth that it was one worth taking. The insider claimed…
