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Creative Artists Agency and Artémis have closed their previously announced agreement for the Pinault family’s investment company to become majority stakeholders in the entertainment and sports agency, the companies said Monday.

As previously reported in TheWrap, Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett will remain co-chairmen of CAA. Lourd will be named chief executive officer while Jim Burtson will remain president. Singapore-headquartered global investment firm Temasek will remain a minority investor in CAA. Cmc Capital will remain a CAA strategic partner.

Artémis CEO Francois-Henri Pinault had been in discussions to buy the stake in the talent agency — which underwent company-wide layoffs in early August — since at least July.

Tpg will exit the investment of 35% of the agency that it made in 2010, which it increased to a majority stake in 2014. The secondary investment was reported to be $225 million for the 53% majority stake. It was a landmark moment for growth for CAA,...

Wasserman has finalized plans to acquire Brillstein Entertainment Partners. The entertainment management and production company run by Cynthia Pett and Jon Liebman will now be under the umbrella of Wasserman’s sports marketing and talent management.

The current Wasserman clients, including but not limited to athletes and musicians, will now be able to potentially more closely participate in films, shows or related content created by Brillstein and using the IP already existing within Brillstein. The pitch to current and future clients is an exchange of services and ideas across marketing, representation, content creation and talent management arms all under one proverbial roof.

“Cynthia [Pett] and I will continue to be co-ceos and will continue to run our production company/talent management company,” co-ceo Jon Leibman told TheWrap. “We will retain our identity.”

Concurrently, Wasserman Chairman and CEO Casey Wasserman told TheWrap, “Every company we acquire we operate as a single...

Jessica Simpson will not tolerate being body-shamed, especially in the year 2020. As one of the many famous celebrities who's attended the exclusive Met Gala event over the years, the singer was looking forward to taking a walk down memory lane this first Monday in May. However, she was appalled to see that Sally Singer, former Vogue creative digital director, remarked on Simpson's breasts in the Vogue article "Only at the Met: An Oral History of the World's Most Glamorous Gala," rather than the fashion from the night or other moments. Specifically, Singer recalled, "One year Jessica Simpson was there with John Mayer. She was wearing Michael Kors and her...

Cardi B is making fashion moves. The sassy fashionista rapper, who has her own clothing line, will offer her hilarious anecdotes and style expertise at the magazine's 2019 Forces of Fashion Summit. She will be a featured speaker, joining the likes of fashion icons such as supermodel Cindy Crawford and model daughter Kaia Gerber and Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, as well as a slew of top designers. Cardi will speak at a panel along with Vogue Creative Digital Director Sally Singer. In a Vogue  "Go Ask Anna" Q&a posted on YouTube in July, Wintour sang Cardi's praises when asked what she thinks of the rapper's style. She said...

Since being released from prison in May 2017 via a commutation by President Obama, Chelsea Manning has quickly and adroitly readapted to civilian life. While a lot has changed over the last seven years, for a tech savvy millennial like herself, the learning curve doesn’t seem to be particularly steep. She’s already become a force to be reckoned with on Twitter, skillfully shutting down her many trolls and haters with a charming optimism and clear-eyed view of the realities and foibles of modern culture, buoying her supporters with her signature hashtag, #WeGotThis. And it seems that same no-nonsense approach...

Next year’s SXSW may still be months away, but the annual multi-pronged festival and conference gathering has already started rolling out a slew of impressive announcements. Next up, their third wave of Keynotes and Featured Speakers, plus 700 planned sessions for the 2017 event. Conference Keynotes now include filmmaker Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Godzilla” and “Monsters”); Adam Grant, author of “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World”; Creative Director and L.A. Anchor for Beats 1, Zane Lowe; and Mt. Everest photographer Cory Richards. They join previously announced Keynotes, including Lee Daniels, Jennifer Doudna and Jill Soloway.

Featured Speakers now include “Transparent” actor Kathryn Hahn and global design icon Marc Jacobs, along with business and tech influencers Whitney Wolfe and Padmasree Warrior, covering subjects that range from user privacy to next-generation entertainment options.

Read More: SXSW and White House To Throw Special One-Day Festival For Creators and Innovators

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As Fashion Week kicks off in Paris today, two of the industry’s longstanding authorities are throwing shade at a crop of digital influencers who have risen to new prominence.

In a Milan Fashion Week roundup from Vogue, for instance, the magazine’s creative digital director Sally Singer spoke out against the fashion blogger phenomenon. “Note to bloggers who change head-to-toe, paid-to-wear outfits every hour: Please stop. Find another business. You are heralding the death of style.” Added fashion news editor Alessandra Codinha: “It seems to be all about turning up, looking ridiculous, posing, twitching in your seat as you check your social media feeds, fleeing, changing, repeating.”

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