Paramount chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos was an early backer of Joe Biden’s candidacy and never wavered, even when it looked like the then-candidate’s campaign was going to founder in the early going.
Gianopulos got to know the then-vice president during the Obama administration through dealing with Motion Picture Association business.
In October 2018, he was among a handful of industry heavyweights who attended a meeting in Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Beverly Hills office when Biden was considering whether to run. (Also among those present: Entertainment Studios owner Byron Allen and Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman.) In October 2019, Gianopulos and his wife Ann hosted a fundraiser for Biden at their Brentwood home..
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