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But after a tumultuous tenure, former Disney Chairman Michael Eisner ousted Ovitz two years later. In 2010 Ovitz founded venture capital firm Broad Beach Ventures, which is based in Los Angeles.

So, after 19 years with the company, Katzenberg resigned. But then Michael Eisner hired Michael Ovitz, a founder of Creative Artist Agency, as president in October 1995, only to terminate him 16 ...

Less than six months after purchasing a Manhattan condo for $22 million, former Disney President Michael Ovitz is looking to let it go for a $3 million profit. Ovitz, who co-founded Creative ...

Mr. Ovitz, who served as president of The Walt Disney Company under chairman Michael Eisner from 1995-97 after resigning from Creative Artists Agency, a talent and sports agency he co-founded in ...

When Eisner declined to promote him, Katzenberg resigned and Michael Ovitz was selected. Ovitz would also later resign due to growing turmoil within the company. After years of success ...

The stock closed Thursday at $67.50. Ovitz resigned in December after a year on the job amid growing tension with Chairman Michael Eisner. Disney signed Eisner to a new 10-year contract Thursday.

With Livent’s Oriental Theatre scheduled to open this fall in the Loop, Ovitz will be challenging ex-boss Michael Eisner’s Disney-leased Chicago Theater (two blocks away) for our entertainment ...

On his association with the Michael Eisner/Michael Ovitz regime at Disney: “Part of it was the association with (Eisner). I was just tarred by the same brush,” Mr. Iger says. “And part of it ...

In fact, it was decreed that Iger would report, not to Eisner, but to newly appointed Michael Ovitz, the CAA agent who had yet proved that he himself was prepared for his role as Disney president.