Sumner Redstone And Malia Andelin At The 2009 Tony Awards Editorial Photo

Billionaire entrepreneur Sumner Redstone died at his home in Los Angeles on August 11, 2020 at the age of 97. Though sustaining grievous burns in his mid-50`s in a Boston hotel fire, the successful investor became supercharged with energy and determination upon his survival and recovery and declared he would live forever. He is pictured here at the Tony Awards red carpet, with companion Malia Andelin, nearly sixty years his junior, on June 7, 2009, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Broadway awards show has been televised for decades on CBS. Among his many fabulously successful acquisitions were Viacom and CBS. He has owned stakes in the leading movie studies and at one taime or another gobbled up Blockbuster, Paramount, MTV , and a vast number of movie theaters. He was renowned for his aggressive, take-no-prisoners negotiating strategies were were generally very successful until well into his eighties.