Word: ovitz
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...willing to let him have a respectable exit ... and he abused that as he had been abusing his position. It just got me nuts." MICHAEL EISNER, Disney CEO, testifying about ex-president Michael Ovitz in a shareholders' suit to win back some of Ovitz's $140 million severance package...
...MICHAEL OVITZ, former president of Disney, on his former boss Disney CEO Michael Eisner...
Forget Desperate Housewives. This week's juiciest backbiting scenes may come from a Delaware courtroom, where former Disney president and fallen über-agent MICHAEL OVITZ, near left, is expected to testify. Shareholders are suing Disney's board, claiming the 1995 hiring of Ovitz and his dismissal 14 months later by Disney CEO MICHAEL EISNER cost the company up to $200 million. The plaintiffs allege Disney could have fired Ovitz for lying (a charge his spokesman calls "hearsay and gossip") and denied him his $140 million severance. In an internal memo read in court last week, Eisner called Ovitz, once...
...Price per day to watch a webcast of the Disney trial brought by shareholders angry over Michael Ovitz's severance...
...million Amount Ovitz lost by failing to exercise 4.9 million of those options before Disney stock took a dive in 2000; they have now expired...