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20 May 2011, 2:12 pm
Alex Ben Block A law firm also alleges it was never paid for a dispute with Ovitz's former business partner Peter Levin. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 10:34 pm
Prominent art collector, Michael Ovitz, who had a short stint as president of the Walt Disney Co. in the mid-1990s, claimed in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Perry Rubenstein Gallery improperly sold two of his works by contemporary American painter and photographer Richard Prince. [read post]
27 Oct 2005, 8:09 am
[JURIST] Walt Disney [corporate website] shareholders have appealed a ruling by a Delaware court that the company's directors were not liable [JURIST report] for approving a $130 million severance package for former President Michael Ovitz [Wikipedia backgrounder]. [read post]
9 Apr 2008, 5:20 pm
The Pellicano trial, which has been puttering along for nearly five weeks, picked up yesterday when entertainment mogul Michael Ovitz (pictured), a founder of Creative Artists Agency, testified that he paid Pellicano $75,000 to dig up dirt on two reporters who he said hastened the collapse of his Hollywood comeback. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 12:40 pm
Michael Eisner, Disney's CEO for 20 years, hired his friend, the celebrated Hollywood agent, Michael Ovitz, to be Disney's President. [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 3:16 am
In the mid-1990s, the Walt Disney Company hired Michael Ovitz to be its #2 executive. [read post]
10 Aug 2005, 2:31 am
[JURIST] The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in favor of Disney executives [decision excerpts via LA Times] Tuesday in a shareholder suit [LA Times report] that alleged that the Disney board violated their duties by ratifying a 1996 decision to fire former company president Michael Ovitz with severance. [read post]
15 Mar 2007, 5:30 am
Earlier, we wrote about the Disney case and how the Chancery and Supreme Court summarily dismissed a challenge to the disinterested status of Michael Eisner that arose from his close, 25 year friendship with Michael Ovitz. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 7:18 am
Ovitz, former agent and co-founder of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), was wooed to Disney by then-CEO and friend Michael Eisner. [read post]
24 Dec 2013, 8:40 am
Daniel Schnapp has news of a lawsuit by Michael Ovitz against Perry Rubinstein Gallery. [read post]
6 Dec 2021, 4:00 am
Early in my career as a legal academic, I wrote about the suits over Michael Ovitz's compensation as President of the Disney Company. [read post]
3 Oct 2011, 2:58 am
It has been nearly 15 years since the Walt Disney Company offered Michael Ovitz a non-fault termination and the estimated $140 million severance package which came as a reward for 14 1/2 months of turbulent and ineffective leadership at the... [read post]
1 Apr 2023, 12:01 pm
Virgin Islands issued subpoenas this week to Sergey Brin, Thomas Pritzker, Mortimer Zuckerman and Michael Ovitz to gather information for its civil lawsuit against JPMorgan JPM 1.21%increase; green up pointing triangle Chase & Co. over the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, according to people familiar with the matter.The subpoenas from the U.S. territory’s attorney general seek any communications and documents related to the bank and Epstein, the people… [read post]
17 Nov 2004, 2:46 pm
[JURIST] Cross examination of Disney CEO Michael Eisner began Wednesday in a shareholder suit against Walt Disney Co. over whether the executive board neglected its duty to shareholders in allowing former president Michael Ovitz to leave with a $140 million severance package after only 14 months of work. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 9:20 am
Ovitz. [read post]
25 Oct 2005, 3:28 pm
Judge William Chandler [state court profile], who ruled [JURIST report] in August that Disney's directors acted properly in paying $140 million to former president Michael Ovitz [Wikipedia [read post]
9 Jun 2006, 4:58 am
[corporate website] directors and two former executives not liable for the approval of a $130 million severance package [JURIST report] for former Disney president Michael Ovitz [Wikipedia backgrounder], after serving only 14 months as president. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 5:41 am
One of the new videos tells the story of the famous Walt Disney shareholder derivative litigation challenging Michael Ovitz’s massive severance compensation. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 9:00 am
Back in the 1990s, shareholders challenged the compensation paid to Michael Ovitz. [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 5:00 am
., 906 A.2d 27 (Del. 2006), the Delaware Supreme Court wrote what was probably the final chapter in the long running dispute over the $130 million paid to Michael Ovitz upon his departure from Disney. [read post]
