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The newly ousted chairman of Disney-owned Marvel Entertainment said he once contacted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to express his support for the Republican in his public feud with the Mouse House. Ike Perlmutter, the 80-year-old billionaire executive who was ousted in the first wave of Disney’s recent layoffs, claims he was fired by the company due to his combative relationship with top brass. The notoriously outspoken Perlmutter also revealed that he called DeSantis to voice his disagreement with Disney’s decision last year to publicly lobby against the DeSantis-backed Parental Rights in Education law, branded by critics as the “Don’t Say...

Full Title: Marvel's Ike Perlmutter, a Trump Friend, Hopes Homeland Security Helped Solve Bizarre Mystery Perlmutter is now claiming extortion — and a court filing suggests that Trump's go-to lawyer may have known about it. For the longest time, decades in fact, Marvel chairman Isaac Perlmutter wouldn't show his face in public. The 74-year-old Israeli American could very well have taken a bow for rescuing Marvel Comics from bankruptcy in the 1990s or selling his company to Disney for $4 billion in 2009, but Perlmutter has never been interested in publicity. His aversion to the limelight runs so deep that...