Shari Redstone
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- Sunday, 09 Jan, 2022
- Redstone, the daughter of media mogul Sumner Redstone, is chairwoman of media empire ViacomCBS.
- She successfully facilitated the 2019 $12 billion merger deal between CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc.
- She is the first woman to have such a large stake of a U.S. media business, controlling a $30 billion media empire.
- A CBS suit against Ms. Redstone over control of the company was dismissed in May 2018 as CBS Chief Leslie Moonves was ousted due to sexual misconduct.