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Bob Iger will step down as Disney CEO and assume the role of executive chairman, Disney announced Tuesday.
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Iger will remain executive chairman of Disney through the end of 2021, according to the company. Iger had been planning his succession for a while, saying at Disney’s investor day last year that “2021 will be the time for me to finally step down.” Iger has been CEO of Disney since 2005. He’s pushed back his retirement several times in recent years, and Tuesday’s succession announcement came as a surprise.
Hmm... I wonder if anything about this came up in the Weinstein trial?
Paz de la Huerta, who filed a sexual assault suit against Harvey Weinstein last November, has expanded the list of defendants in her lawsuit. In a new complaint she names Disney, its CEO, Bob Iger, and former chairman Michael Eisner—due to her work with Weinstein on The Cider House Rules, which was produced by Miramax, which Disney owned at the time.
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Per THR, the new complaint introduces claims of negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Iger, Eisner, and former Miramax chairman Bob Weinstein, whose Weinstein Company was named in the initial lawsuit. Against Disney, de la Huerta claims negligent supervision and violation of federal sex trafficking statutes. Attorney Aaron Filler writes in the complaint that it’s “clear that the risk of sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein is inherent in the working environment fostered at Miramax,” THR reports. Filler adds later that Disney is responsible for de la Huerta’s alleged assault because it stemmed from “the bringing together of these two individuals [de la Huerta and Weinstein] in the course of business of Miramax.”
Paz' lawsuit sounds pretty shaky to me; she's claiming Weinstein abused her because Miramax put them together for the first time in a meeting. And Disney owned Miramax.
The entire movie business operates on agents and studios pairing actors with producers and writers, directors, cameramen, etc.
She might have a winnable case against Miramax, but Disney wasn't directly involved as the corporate owner of Miramax. Their involvement, if any, was too remote to be prosecutable.
I suspect her lawyer is just shot-gunning it, hoping some stray shot will hit a target that has money. That's nothing new.
I also doubt it had much in Iger's decision to step down. The guy has been there quite a while, and it's more likely he simply didn't want the pressure of the job any more. Running Disney would be like herding angry cats. It would be much better to quit after a banner year than after a bad one.
Not in my opinion. This whole sequel trilogy has been a train wreck and The Last Jedi is largely responsible for it.
The sequel trilogy is the best thing since empire.
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