Les Moonves And Paramount Global Agree To Pay $9.75M To Resolve NY State Attorney General Probe Related To CBS Shareholder Lawsuit
deadline.comFormer CBS chief Les Moonves and Paramount Global have agreed to pay an additional $9.75 million to resolve an investigation by the New York State Attorney General’s office.
The new settlement — $7.25 million from CBS (now under the auspices of Paramount) and another $2.5 million from Moonves — was confirmed in a letter today to the judge ruling on a shareholder lawsuit in U.S.
District Court in New York. Moonves was ousted after a long tenure atop CBS after an independent law firm probe substantiated many of the claims of sexual assault and misconduct made by more than a dozen women.
Paramount acknowledged the litigation over Moonves in an SEC filing today summing up its third-quarter financial activities. (The company’s stock has tumbled today in the wake of a middling quarterly earnings report.) Two shareholder lawsuits were filed in 2018 as CBS (then separate from Viacom prior to the companies’ reunion and rebranding as Paramount) was in the process of investigating Moonves.
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