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A bombshell new guide concerning the battle for energy on the Paramount World leisure empire will lay naked never-before-reported allegations of sexual assault in opposition to the late Sumner Redstone, Confider has realized, and one lady talked about within the guide has already issued authorized threats to its authors.
Unscripted: The Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Household Legacy, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Instances journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, isn’t resulting from hit cabinets by way of Penguin Random Home till February, but it surely already has Tinseltown energy gamers nervous about a few of its salacious revelations.
Redstone’s ex-fiancée Sydney Holland—practically 50 years his junior—has lawyered up, hiring pit-bull defamation lawyer Larry Stein and sending Stewart and Abrams a authorized risk over the participation of her ex-boyfriend George Pilgrim within the guide, two folks aware of the matter advised Confider.
Pilgrim is seen as the person who broke up Redstone’s engagement to Holland again in 2015, however sources declare the ex-convict—who frolicked in jail on fraud costs—has a deeply private agenda to harm Holland and there could also be authorized motion if sure claims made by him function prominently within the hotly anticipated guide, which is already being shopped to streamers for a TV adaptation.
Stewart, Abrams and Stein declined to remark. Reps for Penguin, Redstone and Pilgrim didn’t get again to us.
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