Cynthia Littleton Business EditorSumner Redstone, a towering figure in media who built his father’s drive-in theater business into an empire that included Viacom, Paramount Pictures and CBS Corp., only to see his legacy tarnished in his final years by corporate battles and sordid allegations by former girlfriends, died Aug.
11 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97.National Amusements, the Redstone family’s private holding company that controls what is now ViacomCBS, confirmed that Redstone died Tuesday afternoon.
After years of public battles with family members, Redstone had been in close contact over the past few years with his daughter, ViacomCBS chairman Shari Redstone, and others in his extended family.“My father led an extraordinary.
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