With the $8 billion sale of Paramount Global to David Ellison’s Skydance complete, Shari Redstone has shared her side of the story in a New York Times interview, detailing executive exits, her doubts about Ellison, and the Trump settlement that cleared the way. Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw break down Redstone’s postmortem. Tattletale? A recent New York Times interview clarified two mysteries: Shari Redstone asked several Paramount board members to resign, claiming they hindered company activity, and she temporarily pulled out of the Ellison deal last summer because David Ellison altered the terms to reduce her payout. “She thought he was on the up and up, and was being forthcoming with her,” says Belloni. And then she began to have some doubts about him, which is interesting, because we h

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