Madeline Redstone, sister-in-law of media mogul Sumner Redstone, has put her Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Sumner Redstone wants to be remembered not for his feuds but for the empire he built.
All the more reason for Sumner Redstone, Jeffrey Immelt and Gerald Levin to be interested.
Madeline Redstone, sister-in-law of media mogul Sumner Redstone, has listed her Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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Viacom owns Paramount Pictures, but is controlled by Sumner Redstone's closely held National Amusements Inc.
Sumner Redstone vows to sit down with his daughter in the coming weeks to resolve their differences.
The firm's controlling shareholder, Sumner Redstone, once observed that content is king.
Less than a month ago, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone told investors he was happy with the performance of Chief Executive Tom Freston .
Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old entertainment mogul who has voting control of CBS and Viacom, was giving a speech at Boston University in September.
"If Shari desires to be bought out, I will consider this as long as the price is acceptable, " Sumner Redstone wrote in his letter.
Aside from Bertelsmann, whose newish boss, Thomas Middelhoff, is 46, they are run by old and oldish men Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone and Gerald Levin.
Fellow American billionaire Sumner Redstone was also selling heavily this month.
When Sumner Redstone sold a big block of his Viacom holdings, the preferred stock dropped overnight to a 12.5% yield before recovering to the 10% level.
Google Chairman and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone and Viacom Chief Executive Philippe Dauman are also among the executives who will be asked for depositions.
The current dispute centers around whether Shari Redstone, under terms of a family trust, is entitled to become chairman of Viacom and CBS succeeding Sumner Redstone after his death, without board approval.
Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old entertainment mogul who has voting control of CBS and Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ), was giving a speech at Boston University in September.
Even as a bruised Sumner Redstone was putting most of that agitation behind him by 2005, his relations with the offspring who he had nurtured in the business, daughter, Shari, were growing more tense.
Sumner Redstone's company, which owns MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures, said it would be suspending salary increases for senior-level management in 2009, as well as write down the value of certain programming and other assets.
Sumner Redstone's CBS will be broadcasting the game, allowing the network to bring in millions in ad dollars from companies willing to fork over big bucks for a chance to catch all the eyes focused on the game.
Shari Redstone, National Amusements' president, originally planned to use the concert space as an add-on theater to its next-door Cinema de Lux, one of National's top theaters, but the daughter of the company's billionaire owner Sumner Redstone gambled on a different model.
Viacom ( VIA - news - people ) in December 2005, when Chief Sumner Redstone (still its controlling shareholder) yanked the broadcast division from its cable siblings MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, among others, as well as movie studio Paramount Pictures.
The area, which runs east from Central Park past ritzy Park Avenue apartment houses to the East River, and north from 60th Street to 69th, is home to such plutocrats as David Rockefeller, Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Perelman, Robert Bass and Sumner Redstone.
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Sumner Redstone has continued to serve as CEO of National Amusements as well as chairman of Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ) and CBS (nyse: CBS - news - people ), which is said to be a continuing source of irritation to his daughter, who also serves as vice chairwoman and director of both of these two large media conglomerates.
Sumner and his younger brother, Edward Redstone, grew up in Boston, born to Belle and Michael (Mickey) Redstone.
The Redstone family battle centers on a rift between Sumner and his 54-year-old daughter, Shari.
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