{"id":3361,"date":"2026-06-12T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/12\/how-much-did-ex-paramount-president-jeff-shell-pay-to-settle-gamblers-suit-nothing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:13:00","slug":"how-much-did-ex-paramount-president-jeff-shell-pay-to-settle-gamblers-suit-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/12\/how-much-did-ex-paramount-president-jeff-shell-pay-to-settle-gamblers-suit-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Did Ex-Paramount President Jeff Shell Pay to Settle Gambler\u2019s Suit? Nothing."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tEx-Paramount president Jeff Shell<\/a> personally paid nothing to R.J. Cipriani to settle the scorched-earth lawsuit between the two men, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n

\t\u201dHe did not pay a single cent,\u201d said a person familiar with the situation. \u201cNothing.\u201d A source, however, confirms that Cipriani was paid off, just not by Shell or Paramount. <\/p>\n

\tPatricia Glaser, a veteran industry litigator who had represented both men separately in unrelated matters and arranged a meeting between the two sides in 2024, offered Cipriani $150,000 of her own money to resolve the dispute, according to his lawsuit. He rebuffed that offer. The lawyer, who declined to comment for this story, later offered to pay more than $1 million, said a person with knowledge of the situation. The final settlement figure remains unknown.<\/p>\n

\tAt the time of their initial meeting, Shell suspected Cipriani of orchestrating a campaign to undermine his comeback at Paramount. Glaser set up the talks for the two sides to reach a truce.<\/p>\n

\tThat meeting became the foundation of a lawsuit from Cipriani, who claimed<\/a> that Shell solicited his advice in the wake of the latter\u2019s 2023 departure from NBCUniversal for alleged sexual harassment. The high-stakes gambler, who didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment, alleged that Shell subsequently shared confidential information with him to suppress negative stories and to circulate favorable coverage for Paramount. One example: details about the timing and structure of Paramount\u2019s $7.7 billion media rights deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship almost a month before its August 2025 announcement<\/p>\n

\tIn a cross complaint, Shell accused Cipriani of exploiting the access that Glaser had brokered. This includes pestering him to pick up Roku\u2019s Spanish-language series Serenata de las Estrellas<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\tIn his lawsuit, Shell said he repeatedly declined but agreed to meet Cipriani at Glaser\u2019s recommendation. During a confrontation earlier this year, Cipriani claimed that he had been working for Shell for 18 months and demanded payment.<\/p>\n

\tShell\u2019s cross complaint referenced Glaser dozens of times, though she wasn\u2019t a defendant in the case. Across her multidecade career, she\u2019s represented Conan O\u2019Brien, Harvey Weinstein and Ron Meyer, among several others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Logo text Ex-Paramount president Jeff Shell personally paid nothing to R.J. Cipriani to settle the scorched-earth lawsuit between the two men, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. \u201dHe did not pay a single cent,\u201d said a person familiar with the situation. \u201cNothing.\u201d A source, however, confirms that Cipriani was paid off, just not by Shell or Paramount. Patricia Glaser, a veteran industry litigator who had represented both men separately in unrelated matters and arranged a meeting between the two sides in 2024, offered Cipriani $150,000 of her own money to resolve the dispute, according to his lawsuit. He rebuffed that offer. The lawyer, who declined to comment for this story, later […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,95,2,1947],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-business-news","category-hollywood","category-jeff-shell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}