Rachel Abrams
Objectively speaking, I’m about as well versed as one could be in the intricacies of the perverse Redstone-family saga and their voting control over what’s now known as Paramount Global, the 2019 recombination of the CBS and Viacom corporations. I’ve probably written dozens of pieces about the late patriarch, Sumner Redstone; his various paramours, many of whom succeeded in fleecing him; his estrangement from his immediate family; and the raging battle to control his (much diminished) media empire.
Would it be Shari Redstone, in the end the only child with whom Sumner managed to have a modicum of a relationship? Or would she be outstripped by Les Moonves, the powerful longtime C.E.O. of CBS, who detested Shari almost as much as her father once had?
