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Warner Bros Discovery’s Billion-Dollar Club: Here’s What Top Execs Took Home From Skydance Deal

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Former Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav collected a massive windfall (more than $600 million) for orchestrating the company’s $110 billion sale to Paramount – but he wasn’t alone. Zaslav’s top deputies also made out extremely well from the combination under new corporate parent Skydance, which…

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  1. Variety

    David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger (opens Variety)

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    David Zaslav is out of a job. But he’s getting a prodigious sum of $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, the company he fused together and led for more than four years before it agreed to be acquired by David Ellison’s Paramount. Zaslav, who was Warner Bros.

  2. Deadline

    David Zaslav Cashes In: WBD CEO Scores Massive Merger Windfall (opens Deadline)

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    David Zaslav, ex-CEO of the former Warner Bros. Discovery saw a windfall of just over $600 million as he handed over his WBD shares to Paramount at $31 each. An SEC filing today shows the Oct. 6 exchange of tranches of common stock and options as Paramount closed its acquisition of WBD and changed i…

  3. The Hollywood Reporter

    David Zaslav Cashed Out More Than $600 Million in Warner Bros. Stock in Connection With Sale to Paramount (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The WBD CEO saw his stock liquidated in connection with the acquisition, though his total severance package will be more complex.

  4. Bloomberg

    Ex-Warner Bros. CEO Pockets $600 Million in Sale to Paramount (opens Bloomberg)

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    David Zaslav, the longtime TV executive who created Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. but ultimately failed to keep it going as an independent company, made about $600 million on the sale of the business to Paramount Skydance Corp. this week.

  5. Quartz

    Warner Bros. Discovery's departing CEO pocketed $606 million from Paramount sale (opens Quartz)

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    David Zaslav received $606.1 million for shares and stock options as Skydance closed its acquisition of WBD on Oct. 6

  6. New York Post

    Mystery over ex Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav’s whereabouts as he goes ‘off grid’ with $606m from sale (opens New York Post)

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    David Zaslav has ridden off into the sunset — quite literally, sources tell us — after raking in more than $606 million on the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger.

  7. The Hollywood Reporter

    $1.1 Billion for Five Warner Bros. Execs: Who Cashed Out From Paramount Sale (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    David Zaslav's $606 million haul accounted for most of the gains, but his four top deputies also sold their shares in the deal, with payouts averaging over $100 million.

  8. Deadline

    Warner Bros Discovery’s Billion-Dollar Club: Here’s What Top Execs Took Home From Skydance Deal (opens Deadline)

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    Former Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav collected a massive windfall (more than $600 million) for orchestrating the company’s $110 billion sale to Paramount – but he wasn’t alone. Zaslav’s top deputies also made out extremely well from the combination under new corporate parent Skydance, which…

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