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flyingcuttlefish ago

CAA associated with mobbed up MCA -

Ovitz helped negotiate Sony Corporation’s $3.4 billion acquisition of Columbia Pictures Entertainment in 1989. A second blockbuster deal followed in 1990; with Ovitz as advisor to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., the Japanese firm successfully courted and conquered MCA, owner of Universal Studios, in a $6.6 billion buyout. This deal earned CAA anywhere from $8 million to $40 million and garnered Ovitz the title of “Mike the Manipulator” in Spy magazine.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/creative-artists-agency-llc

A good book on MCA and the mob -

Dark Victory: RONALD REAGAN, MCA AND THE MOB by Dan E. Moldea

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-12/books/bk-3097_1_dark-victory

Lots and lots of Hollywood dirt in that book. MCA paid for Jack Ruby's lawyer.