Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Yusef Jackson Take on HFPA Chief Todd Boehly for Self-Dealing in Explosive Letter to Members (Exclusive)
end the HFPA’s non-profit status and essentially buy out the current 102 members, making them profit participants in the lucrative Golden Globes telecast. The intention would be to expand the voting pool by another 200 voters, while not conferring membership status on those new voters, according to TheWrap’s reporting. The letter criticized this to the members as looking to “cozy up and offer to buy you out…for nothing, with a 3-year termination,” a reference to Boehly’s proposal. Jackson and Boone Isaacs are offering an alternative, and reached out to individual HFPA members earlier this week to explain their plan.