Walt Disney World was anything but the Happiest Place on Earth when Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz visited the Florida theme park for its 25th anniversary in September 1996. The media was ...

The memoir, due out Tuesday, traces Ovitz’s remarkable career as co-founder of Creative Artists Agency and his brief, ill-fated tenure as president of Walt Disney Co. Disney CEO Michael Eisner ...

GEORGETOWN, Del. – Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner portrayed former top deputy Michael Ovitz as a Hollywood prima donna who clashed with top executives and lavished himself with exorbitant perks.

Yesterday, though, the Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner painted the Ovitz story as one more by Arthur Miller--a once liked salesman who, now disliked, has outlived his usefulness. The party ...

Michael Ovitz says he was worth every penny of his $140 million severance from Walt Disney, because he solved studio problems that Chairman Michael Eisner couldn’t handle. Eisner and Ovitz ...

Michael Eisner continues to testify in the suit by shareholders who contend that Disney board members should be held liable for the costly hiring and firing of Michael Ovitz. As a highly ...

Also controversial during his tenure, Eisner famously passed up Jeffrey Katzenberg for the role of Walt Disney Company president, instead recruiting his friend Michael Ovitz for the position.

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Michael Ovitz, who once controlled the careers of ... 16-month tenure as the No. 2 man behind Disney Chairman Michael Eisner. “It is important to recognize when something is not working ...

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner summarized a harsh 1996 letter he wrote to then-Disney president Michael Ovitz as meaning: "You were rotten to begin with, you're rotten now ...