Michael Wolff on Viacom: How the Philippe Dauman-Shari Redstone War Will Go Down – Hollywood Reporter

Michael Wolff on Viacom: How the Philippe Dauman-Shari Redstone War Will Go Down

So how does Shari Redstone get rid of her father’s successor, Philippe Dauman, enabling her to sell the dwindling Viacom assets that Dauman controls and that her father’s failing health and geriatric bouffe have effectively frozen in place? That’s the question that Shari has engaged in some combination of corporate farce and grand strategy, and the one that has many hedge fund managers — believing that the fate of Redstone’s Viacom and, to a lesser extent, CBS Corp., are the first dominos of a…

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