Word: ovitz
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...million Amount Michael Ovitz pocketed from his severance package, which included 9 million stock options, after being fired as Walt Disney Co.'s president...
CORPORATE PERKS Disney later claimed no wrongdoing had occurred. But unsealed audits show that concerns were also raised about Ovitz's expensing of high-priced meals, gifts--and even a subscription to Playboy...
...SPENDER Ovitz racked up $6.3 million in "business expenses," other documents show, including $2 million for office remodeling, $6,100 for a home X-ray machine and $812 for breakfast with the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...AGENT OUT OF WATER Eisner felt that his president never took to the job. But why was he so surprised? Hollywood is a small town, and Ovitz's style is legendary...
...HEAR ME NOW? And lots of those phone conversations were with reporters. Eisner also complained that Ovitz tried to manipulate the media--this from one of the slickest handlers of the press in Hollywood...