Paramount’s Jeff Shell Fires Back: Exec Says Allegation He Leaked Private Corporate Info Is ‘Utterly False Tale’ Created in a ‘Shakedown’ Attempt

Jeff Shell, the president of Paramount Skydance, is accusing a “fixer” who has demanded $150 million from Shell for crisis communications of trying to extort and defame him, by creating “an utterly false tale that Shell had disclosed confidential details about Paramount’s business.” Shell was sued March 9 by R.J. Cipriani, who alleged in the […]

By Todd Spangler