In 2001 Johnson sold BET to Viacom. The deal was worth $3 billion and required that Johnson remain CEO for five more years. This move made Johnson the first African American billionaire in the United States. After selling BET, Johnson formed the RLJ Companies, where he began new ventures. ...
Russell Brand Though he may have been stationed in NYC instead of fictional Gotham, Brand—via the billionaire playboy he portrayed—got the chance tosort ofplay Batman (or at least wear the suit and drive the mobile) in 2011'sArthur. DC Comics; Andrew H. Walker/...
Cable Billionaire Sets Sights on Financial Services.(Robert L. Johnson)(Interview)After spending 25 years building the first cable television network aimed at African-Americans, Robert L. Johnson says he is looking to carve a niche in financial services, eventually including bank ownership.Ackermann,...
Johnson, 74, became the first black billionaire in 2001 when he sold BET to Viacom. Soon after, he started the investment firm,The RLJ Cos. Johnson called reparations the “affirmative action program of all time,” saying it would signal that white Americans acknowledge “damages that are owe...
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In David Cronenberg’s thematically murky and pretentious-to-the-point-of-parody apocalyptic takedown of unrepentant American capitalism, an almost word-by-word adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel, Pattinson is aggressively deadpan as a young billionaire asset manager whose sanity relies on a world ...
Threads is a new application and social network created by the Instagram team, which is part of the Meta group, led by billionaire entrepreneurMark Zuckerberg.The launch of Threads has had a positive impact on the market, as Meta’s stocks experienced an increase of nearly 3% during an unfavo...
Though he may have been stationed in NYC instead of fictional Gotham, Brand—via the billionaire playboy he portrayed—got the chance to sort of play Batman (or at least wear the suit and drive the mobile) in 2011's Arthur. DC Comics; Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images ...
in each episode of which Trump “fired” one or more contestants competing for a lucrative one-year contract as a Trump employee, furtherenhancedhis reputation as a shrewd businessman and self-made billionaire. In 2008 the show was revamped asThe Celebrity Apprentice, which featured news makers...
as deputy assistant to the president for strategic communications, has pushed anti-Islamic views, criticized the Black Lives Matter movement and peddled conspiracy theories, penning an essay before the 2020 election suggesting that billionaire George Soros and the Democratic Party were planning a c...