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Sumner Redstone Death – Dead | Media Mogul Sumner Redstone Obituary

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Media Mogul Sumner Redstone Death – Dead | Passed Away – Obituary

Sumner Redstone Death – Dead: A great loss was made known to InsideEko. As friends and families of the deceased are mourning the passing of their loved and cherished Sumner Redstone.

Sumner Redstone, the hard-charging mogul who parlayed his father’s New England drive-in theater business into a media empire that includes ViacomCBS and flows into virtually every avenue of entertainment, has died.

JUST IN: Sumner Redstone, a media titan and billionaire who, as chairman of Viacom and National Amusements, drew headlines both for his deal-making as well as his turbulent personal life, died on Tuesday. He was 97.

Sumner Redstone, who turned his family’s movie-theater company into a global media empire spanning television, movies, radio and books, and who famously proclaimed that “content is king,” has died

RIP to Sumner Redstone, the comparatively less problematic originally-from-Dorchester media billionaire. There must be something in the water here, it seems OFD folks are outspoken until the end.

Sumner Redstone, ViacomCBS Chairman Emeritus, and Chairman and CEO of National Amusements, the controlling shareholder of ViacomCBS, died at 97. He single-handedly transformed a family-owned theater company into a preeminent global media portfolio.

Sumner Redstone: the other great media tycoon that influenced the creation of Logan Roy.
“Patience is a virtue I cannot support. If you are patient, you never get anywhere.”

Sumner Redstone’s lived a helluva life.
He first served in the DOJ straight out of law school as a special asst to AG Tom C. Clarke and in the Tax Division.
After time in private practice, he joined his father Michael’s Northeastern Theater Corp., becoming CEO in 1967.

Media mogul Sumner Redstone, who built a global empire spanning television, movies and books and famously proclaimed that “content is king,” has died at 97

Having heard about this great loss, the family of this individual is passing through pains, mourning the unexpected passing of their beloved.

This departure was confirmed through social media posts made by Twitter users who pour out tributes, and condolences to the family of the deceased.

We are still working on getting more details about the death, as family statement on the death is yet to be released.

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