As Disney Trial Unfolds, Ovitz Called 'Psychopath'
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Shareholders suing Walt Disney  Co.'s  board of directors on Thursday portrayed Michael Ovitz  as a dishonest and erratic executive who should have been fired  instead of walking away from his job with $140 million in  severance pay.
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Father Leo O&#39;Donovan, a Walt Disney Co. director and Jesuit priest, testified that he believed CEO Michael Eisner had the &quot;proper authority&quot; to boot Michael Ovitz from the company.
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Michael S. Ovitz, the disgraced former president of Walt Disney, last week told his side of the story about his controversial tenure at the company in the mid-1990's.
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Michael S. Ovitz found himself on the defensive late Wednesday about his continuing relationship with the talent agency he had left for Disney.
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GEORGETOWN, Del., Nov. 17 -- Lawyers for plaintiffs in a shareholder suit over Michael S. Ovitz's $140 million severance package from the Walt Disney Co. suggested on Wednesday that Disney chief executive Michael D. Eisner may have viewed his former protege as threatening.
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In testimony on Friday, Michael S. Ovitz, the former president of the Walt Disney Company, described an aborted attempt to join the Sony Corporation and was questioned
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s chief  executive Michael Eisner on Wednesday was confronted with notes  in which he called Michael Ovitz "dangerous" and "a caged  animal" as he desperately tried to fire his one-time friend  from the entertainment giant.
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GEORGETOWN - Walt Disney company officials will appear in the Court of Chancery in Georgetown starting Wednesday. Shareholders are suing Disney and former president Michael Ovitz.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s chief  executive Michael Eisner on Wednesday was confronted with notes  in which Michael Ovitz was called "dangerous" and "a caged  animal" as he desperately tried to fire his one-time friend  from the entertainment giant.
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Michael Ovitz wanted a &#36;50 million signing bonus to become president of the Walt Disney Co., but the directors who eventually hired him were not willing to make that kind of outlay, an executive compensation expert testified Tuesday.
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GEORGETOWN, United States : A law suit against the Walt Disney Co. over 140 million dollars paid to former president Michael Ovitz started, seven years after shareholders brought the action.
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GEORGETOWN, Del. -- Lawyers Friday challenged an account of allegedly excessive spending by former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz on dinners, magazines, a home screening room and a $2 million office renovation.
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Former Walt Disney Co.  President Michael Ovitz conceded he knew little about running a  public company and called his short tenure fraught with  "difficult days" as he testified in a shareholder lawsuit over  his $140 million severance pay.
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Shareholders suing Walt Disney Co.'s  board of directors on Thursday portrayed Michael Ovitz as a dishonest and erratic executive who should have been fired instead of walking away from his job with &#36;140 million in severance pay.
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WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware corporate law judge Wednesday heard a plea from attorneys for former Walt Disney Co. president Michael Ovitz that asks to remove Ovitz from the list of defendants in a shareholder
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GEORGETOWN, Del.  - Walt Disney Co.'s board of  directors went on trial on Wednesday, on shareholder  accusations that it merely rubberstamped a decision to hire  Michael Ovitz and allowed him to walk away months later with a  $140 million severance package.
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Defense lawyers in the Walt Disney trial on Friday tried to undermine the credibility of a witness who testified that company directors neglected their oversight