One Monday in April 2016, Tyka Nelson received a call from her brother, Prince. Tyka worked for Prince in the last four or five years of his life, and he would routinely bounce ideas off her for projects he wanted to get off the ground. That day, he was in search of family information – “more information about Daddy’s side of the family,” Nelson says. “It was the beginnings of his book.”
Three days later, Prince was found dead, in an elevator at his Minnesota compound, from an opioid overdose, including...
Three days later, Prince was found dead, in an elevator at his Minnesota compound, from an opioid overdose, including...
- 7/13/2018
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Will Martha Stewart put her company's extravagant good-bye gift to Executive Chairman Charles Koppelman in a tasteful gift box with a bow? The former Emi Music chief -- who was a fixture on NBC's The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005 -- will leave by year's end, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia disclosed in an SEC filing today. His departure was moved up a year to open running room for Mslo's new COO Lisa Gersh, who co-founded and ran Oxygen Media until NBCUniversal bought it in 2007. She's been reporting to Koppelman but will report directly to the board when he leaves. But he shouldn't complain: His exit package includes a $1.47M severance payment and up to $35,000 for the attorneys who worked on his new arrangement. The filing says he'll remain on the Mslo board as "Non-Executive Chairman, Vice Chairman or Special Committee Chairman." That will entitle him to an initial $50,000 in stock rights...
- 7/29/2011
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
- Deadline TV
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