“We are feeling pretty strong about ourselves and don’t need any partners,” Moonves said in a CBS earnings call. “He considers me family and my children family. “Sumner, you worked your whole life,” she told him. Holland has sued Naylor for $1 million in damages. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. “I just hung up the phone and didn’t want to deal with it. Nancy Sterling, a spokesperson for Redstone’s daughter, Shari, at ML Strategies in Boston, says it’s preposterous for anyone to suggest that Redstone’s family was not involved with his health care. Wall Street was aghast that an unknown had captured the company. Eventually she tired of this responsibility. Nothing, and I don’t care, because why do I need to judge her? Look, everybody tells me that when he can’t get on a conference call there’s an issue. Sexually, it was on. Everybody that works for Sumner, he decides who works for him…. According to Pilgrim, he and Holland started discussing how, after they were married, Pilgrim would adopt Alexandra Red, Holland’s adopted daughter, who is now two years old. The cast of combatants included the most prominent names in the media business, among them media and telecom investor John Malone and Barry Diller, then the chairman of QVC. “I’m tired of going out to dinner with him and having him mistreat the waiters,” says a friend. “Sumner taught her a lot. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. She likes them because she has to.” This person says it’s vital to Shari for her to be seen as her father’s heir apparent and yet they have very little interaction. Mysteries remain about the relationship between Sydney Holland, the 44-year-old former live-in girlfriend of billionaire Sumner Redstone, and George Pilgrim, a 49-year-old onetime television actor who spent more than two years in prison on fraud and tax-evasion charges. Sharing Horizontal Video on IGTV. Concluded Naylor, “Holland has effectively taken over Redstone’s life and does not allow anyone independent access to him.” (Naylor has since dropped her lawsuit against Holland, but Holland’s suit against Naylor continues and is moving toward a trial. Herzer, an avid tennis player, had never met Evans when she was invited to the dinner at his house by Evans’s tennis pro, Darryl. in the wake of his decision to jettison Freston. “Sure, I help hire new staff,” she says, “but they’re all Sumner’s decision. My motivating factor is living a healthy, structured life where you do something every day, like what you’re doing right now. If Holland had been one of the beneficiaries named in Redstone’s will, chances are she no longer is. I.R.S. “I’m not going to publicly comment on my father’s two current female companions or their impact on our family.”, Holland directs to Redstone my questions about whether he has included Holland or Herzer in his will. They have a blast reminiscing. “I still get up at 4:30–5 a.m. every day I ride my bike and go to the pool and get a haircut. “It didn’t make any sense, because he was so much older, 50 years older. Redstone, photographed by Annie Leibovitz in Central Park, New York City, May 25, 1994. When in New York she stays in an apartment in a fancy East Side hotel that she says Redstone “gifted” her. “It’s now, ‘Sydney who?’ There’s no fucking with this After all, she had become the 92-year-old Redstone’s gatekeeper, had, according to some sources, already reaped tens of millions of dollars from her relationship with him, and quite possibly stood to inherit many millions more upon his death. According to him, in the summer of 2014, some six years after he got out of the Metropolitan Detention Center, in downtown Los Angeles, Holland sought him out to develop his complicated life story into a book and a screenplay for Rich Hippie, her production company. Susie says the Parker family finally agreed to pay Holland $164,000 to leave. © 2020 Condé Nast. She started a line of “eco-conscious” yoga clothes before deciding to open a dating service. Holland visiting a psychic and erupting into anxious tears the minute said TV psychic says she “sees someone with an R” looming large over her life. . They dated for around two years. Naylor claimed that Holland had turned Redstone against her and ruined her career at MTV. records show that in 2012, the year the foundation was established, it had gross receipts of less than $50,000. Known Issues. used to say, ‘If you mess with Sumner you are going to lose.’”, The Hollywood Reporter does not indicate when Bravo will make a casting decision, but we at VF.com are already busily brainstorming potential taglines for the Redstone ex—corny personal slogans each cast mate announces in painfully sincere, scripted line readings during opening credits. “For the record, I just walked away from some very huge deal,” he says. Holland alleges that her laptop computer went missing from the Redstone mansion in 2011 when Naylor was visiting. He looks like the Godfather.’ ”. Redstone and Brent, his son by Phyllis, have had a major falling-out. “He’ll scream at them, usually trying to prove a point.” But Redstone doesn’t want anyone talking about his restaurant visits, which used to be regular fodder for the *New York Post’*s “Page Six.” “We had already from him, how do you say, a lawsuit, nearly a lawsuit, so I cannot say anything,” explains Silvio De Mori, one of Il Piccolino’s owners. They were once engaged, but the engagement was called off after Peters refused to fly with him to Dubai on a moment’s notice when she was in the middle of producing a movie. In the 1990s, Redstone dated Christine Peters, the ex-wife of movie producer Jon Peters and a Hollywood producer in her own right. No one tells Sumner Redstone what to do ever, not me and not anybody.”. Her mother is a social worker in Los Angeles, specializing in interventions. He was on the November 2014 Viacom earnings call, but barely. An insider in Redstone’s business empire notes that e-mails and faxes from Redstone to executives at Viacom and CBS, sent out through his secretary in New York, are so different from what he used to get from Redstone that he is puzzled. He liked fighting, and he liked winning.”, As the Viacom executives tell it, Redstone no longer has that much fire in his belly. records show that … Sumner was like a father figure to her. (Dauman was not made available.) She obviously has a major interest in how things unfold at CBS and Viacom in the post-Sumner era, and executives at both companies are careful not to offend her. She was seated next to a woman, but the next thing she knew Redstone was her dinner companion. But Redstone is off limits to outsiders these days.