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With just days to go before everyone went to trial, Sunmer Redstone and Manuela Herzer have finally laid down their legal arms. In a January 4 dated agreement announced today just before a scheduled hearing in downtown Los Angeles, representatives for the 95-year old media mogul and his former long-time companion now…

Looks like the once-fiercely independent Sumner Redstone is going to be under the guardianship of the same court-appointed lawyer who ran Britney Spears' affairs for years, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered today in a dramatic hearing. Judge David Cowan told a DTLA courtroom this morning that he is granting…

Comparisons to the Hundred Years’ War that intermittently raged in medieval Europe may not be entirely apt yet, but there were a series of legal moves on both sides of the country today in the hostilities over nearly 100-year old media mogul Sumner Redstone’s mental capacity that sure felt like a battle…

The law of averages said it had to happened one day amidst all the lawsuits, counter-claims and machinations of corporate control that have swirled around Sumner Redstone the past few years – the lawyers all agree on something. Calling it "truly a miracle in this case," Ronald Richards, the attorney for the 95-year…

Hollywood and Wall Street have long wondered how much Sumner Redstone really knows about what is being done and said in his name. Now, thanks to an irate filing Monday by lawyers for the rarely seen 95-year-old media mogul and the legal tenacity of his former companion Manula Herzer, by the end of the week we might…

A video of Sumner Redstone that surfaced as part of the CBS-National Amusements court battle is being cited in a different dispute — one involving the aging mogul’s former companion. Manuela Herzer has asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Cowan to revisit the question of Redstone’s mental capacity, claiming it…

Sumner Redstone’s former companion Manuela Herzer has won a small victory in her legal battle with the billionaire’s daughter, Shari Redstone, getting the court’s permission to file an unedited version of a racketeering suit that includes some potentially embarrassing admissions. Herzer claims Shari Redstone conspired…

Almost two years after Sumner Redstone's former companion Manuela Herzer started the first of several legal actions to get back into the media mogul's life and good graces, today she went after his daughter Shari Redstone and her son for at least $100 million under the once-mob-aimed RICO Act. “The acts of Defendants…

Sumner Redstone's former companion Sydney Holland, who was sued by the media tycoon in October for elder abuse, has filed a motion asking a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to appoint a panel of medical experts to determine if the 93-year-old billionaire is mentally and physically capable of being deposed in the…

UPDATE with statements from Herzer and Holland: Sumner Redstone, the 93-year-old media icon, has filed an elder abuse lawsuit against two of his former caregivers, claiming that they "commandeered" his life and "abused their positions of trust" by accepting more than $150 million in “gifts” from the ailing tycoon. Now…

Three months after a judge denied her a new trial over Sumner Redstone’s heath care directive, his former live-in lover abrupt has fired her chief attorney. Sources confirm to Deadline that Manuela Herzer not only sacked Pierce O’Donnell, she is suing him. Her complaint alleges that O’Donnell and his firm got Herzer…

UPDATE, 9:36 AM: "We will appeal," said the lead lawyer for Sumner Redstone's former companion today after a judge denied Manuela Herzer a new trial over the 93-year old's heath care directive. Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinge's Pierce O'Donnell said after the L.A. Superior Court hearing on Monday that the…