Posted on 12/03/2008 7:17:27 AM PST by Kevin J waldroup
Someone really has it in for Sumner Redstone, the 85-year-old media tycoon who is restructuring his debt-plagued empire. An extraordinary piece appears on TheFirstPost.co.uk and is picked up elsewhere. “His demons have come home to roost. He lives alone in his mansion, famously miserly, shaving naked in the hot tub and obsessively feeding his tropical fish, his only constant companions since the collapse this year of his five-year marriage . . .”
All very Citizen Kane. And yet . Redstone is not universally loved, and is, indeed, known for his interest in tropical fish and credited with starting a fashion for the same among fellow Beverly Hills tycoons.
I can't help but recall a piece that appeared in Vanity Fair last December, describing the days when he was at his height a few years ago: “Redstone had a sparkling young wife and a new home in a gated community above Beverly Hills, where he spent his days tending tropical fish, taking phone calls and shaving nude in his hot tub. Sylvester Stallone lived next door. He ate out every night. Life was good.” Could the two pieces be related?
(Excerpt) Read more at business.timesonline.co.uk ...
Howard Hughes, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
Somebody, Please get in there and save those fish.
The guy is 85. I’d let him feed his fish in peace and shave wherever he wants on his own premises.
You sleep with MTV, you wake up with fleas.
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