Chapter 778： scandal

After leaving Walt Disney and returning to the Weinstein brothers, Miramax embarked on a literary film and strategy around awards. These are far from Disney’s business policy. The cooperation between the two parties has gradually decreased, although the Swiss En doesn't pay much attention to this company anymore, but he personally owns nearly 20% of Miramax's shares.

Although not a member of the board of directors, Harvey Weinstein naturally wanted to inform him of such a major incident.

Perhaps the big Jewish man didn't mean to let Ryan help settle things.

However, this kind of thing was not notified by the media in advance, and someone stabbed it out on the Internet. The most important thing is that it is still a video, which is indeed very troublesome.

After confessing a few words to Natalie, Ryan walked to the flight deck at the end of the yacht, took the helicopter directly back to Los Angeles, and made several consecutive calls. Nicole who received his call was not surprised, except for Mi In addition to the major shareholder of Lamax, he is also a member of the board of directors, and just got the news.

The matter is not complicated. The bed of the well-known African-American professional manager, Richard Nanura, the current chairman of Miramax, was posted on a gossip website and quickly spread. It's a normal woman who appears, which is nothing, but the heroine inside is Jessica Alba, and the time of the video shooting happened to be when Miramax was casting the cast for "Sin City".

Many things in Hollywood are actually not secrets. There are a lot of rumours in North America, but private discussion and exposure to evidence are completely two concepts.

If not handled properly, this matter is likely to affect Miramax and directly bring huge losses of hundreds of millions of dollars to Ryan and Nicole.

"Harvey, this may not be an isolated scandal."

In the reception room of the clubhouse in Malibu, Ryan directly asked Harvey Weinstein, who was sitting across from him, "What do you and Bob have in mind?"

"That..." The big fat man frowned tightly. "Ryan, is there any hope..."

"You should know better than me, Harvey."

Standing up and walking a few steps, Ryan turned his head and said, "The Internet is an open media. When I came over, I had seen gossip websites. Now it is not something that our strength can hold down."

Actually, Harvey Weinstein understands this, without him, but no matter who it is. There will always be a little hope, even if you know it is unlikely.

"Only let Richard Nanura resign."

Hearing Harvey Weinstein's unwillingness, Ryan walked back to his seat, "Richard Nanura is indeed a rare talent, but this is the best choice right now."

Things are far from that simple. Ryan believes that this kind of trading with small stars is by no means an exception in Miramax, and having said that, this kind of thing is not uncommon within Disney. The atmosphere in the entire industry is like this. Now what we need to consider is how to shut up those two people and take the responsibility on their own shoulders.

Harvey Weinstein has been together in Hollywood for decades, and naturally understands the truth. After a few brief words with Ryan, he hurriedly left, and convened personnel to start crisis public relations.

This incident was directly reflected in the stock market, and the New York Stock Exchange had just opened the next day. Miramax's stock fell in response, and it fell by nearly 10% in just half a day, if according to the financial media. Together, Ryan and Nicole lost more than 50 million dollars in wealth.

Celebrity scandals have always been the focus of public attention, involving both the chairman of Hollywood's second-tier companies and the third-rate starlets of ‘Sexual Disease’. Paparazzi and gossip media across the United States have jumped up and down.

The firepower was concentrated on Richard Nanura. Firstly, the star must be a weaker, and secondly, his experience was much more brilliant than Jessica Alba.

As early as the early 1990s, the 31-year-old Richard Nanura became Disney’s chief financial officer, the youngest one of the Fortune 500 companies; he also owned Starwood, a Fortune The first black in the top 500 companies in the United States.

He was selected into the new lineup of Fortune Black Human Rights and is one of the most promising executives in the American business community.

In the video uploaded to the gossip website, Richard Nanura pretended to be a **** star named "" and recorded the process of having **** with Jessica Alba.

Fortunately, this guy did not mention the movie and role issues in the video, otherwise Miramax would face even greater trouble.

It's just that the video recording time shown on the video is too close to the casting time of "Sin City" in the text annotation and explanation below, and it is difficult to not think of some well-known things.

Once a person is unlucky, there will often be more unlucky things.

That is, on the second day, his ex-wife Tracy Nanura accepted an interview with the media, claiming that Richard Nanura had been addicted to **** for many years. He had been in Santa La, California as early as 1999. The City of Phoebe received **** addiction treatment. When she discovered that her husband had spent a full 10,000 dollars on a prostitute, she insisted on sending him for treatment.

Although the problems of executives can be said to have nothing to do with the company, the widespread private scandals are so lethal. Miramax has not only become the focus of the public, but will also face investigation by the Actors Guild...

In addition, several Hollywood stars, including Brad Pitt, have interrupted the cooperation negotiations with Miramax, and several directors have also withdrawn from the film that Miramax is preparing.

All this led to further turbulence in Miramax's stock. In less than three days, the market value had evaporated by 15%.

Under the intensified **** scandal, it was an inevitable choice to sacrifice Richard Nanura to quell the turmoil, and Miramax soon announced that the other party had resigned for "personal reasons."

As the protagonist in the video and a well-dressed victim, Jessica Alba’s spokesperson said that this was just a mistake made when she was young and ignorant, and now she regrets it very much...

In short, she pushed all this to her innocence and ignorance in crisis public relations, and in other things, she was extremely clever to choose silence. Obviously Miramax paid a certain price in order to stop her mouth. .

According to common sense, this is the best crisis public relations response, and her team has done a good job. Compared with Richard Nanura, she will inevitably receive a little sympathy from the public and the media, and there is no possibility of turning over in the future. , But if you jump out of nonsense, the nature of the matter will completely change.

In exaggerated terms, that would be against the entire Hollywood studio. Who will use her in the future?

But things have had the opposite effect. Her very pure and ignorant statement has been ridiculed by the media. After all, even a fool will not believe the protagonist of the "Sex and Disease" and the young drug queen Lindsay Luohan? The confidant will be a simple ignorant person.

Jessica Alba's remarks inadvertently helped Miramax lose a lot of pressure.

Of course, Ryan will not pay too much attention to such small stars. Miramax’s compensation is not worth mentioning to him. What he cares about is just like what Harvey Weinstein said to him. Richard Nanura’s individual incident, or was it a blow with ulterior motives?

Does the other party have any other goals?

"From the day the gossip was exposed."

After kissing his daughter’s little nose, Ryan said to Nicole, who was sitting on the other side flipping through the script, “I told Harvey, this is definitely not an isolated incident.”

"Dad...Dad." Sandy's little hand scratched on him, scratching it from time to time, and then Grid smiled and said only a few words that he knew, "Dad...Dad, Mommy."

"Don't say these things in front of your children."

Glancing this way, Nicole patted Sandy's hands with fear. The little guy struggled to get out of Ryan's arms, and leaned on the couch and walked slantingly towards his mother. Although the speed was very slow, he finally drilled. Into Nicole's arms.

"Mummy."

Compared to Dad, she said the word too fluently.

"My dear." Nicole kissed Sandy's little face. "Let Aunt Elsa take you to the garden, please?"

The little guy had no right to object at all, and was taken by Elsa into the stroller and pushed through the back door to the garden.

"Ryan, you have to pay attention later."

Sitting down again, Nicole closed the script and said seriously, "Even though Sonny is still young, our words and actions will affect her. Please don't mention these too dark things in front of your children in the future. ?"

"I hope Sunny has a carefree childhood." She said again.

"Sorry, I may have overlooked this." Ryan understood that it was his fault and quickly promised, "I will pay attention to it in the future."

"According to the analysis of Miramax's technical department."

Now that her daughter is gone, Nicole has no hesitation in discussing with Ryan, “Someone used hacking techniques to steal these private content from Richard’s computer and post it on the Internet.”

"My people checked it." Ryan frowned. "They didn't blackmail Richard, nor did they bid on gossip websites. They published it for free..."

"What is their purpose?"

Hearing Nicole's words Ryan shook his head and said, "The idea of ​​hackers is not something we can understand. Maybe these people just find it fun."

Even so, Ryan doesn't believe this. Behind the doors of Hollywood in the past life, who knows what is hidden.

"Nicole." Ryan suddenly thought of something, "Remember, don't take selfies indiscriminately in the future, and don't store too private things in your phone or computer."

"I'm not that ignorant."

Standing up and tidying up her clothes, Nicole walked towards the back, "I'm going to find Sunny, won't you be with me?"

"of course."

Ryan walked over and took her hand.

The matter gradually subsided, but Ryan did not give up on the investigation. Miramax stock fell, so that he and Nicole had lost 80 million US dollars in the stock market, and the matter did not end so easily. (To be continued...)

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