Spacey’s $35M Mulligan, Byron’s Poison Pill, Biden Media Mysteries

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon inventory of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Eriq Gardner digs into Elon Musk’s all-or-nothing legal strategy after a Delaware judge vaporized his historic $55 billion executive pay package. Plus, the folly of Hollywood's knee-jerk dismissal of Byron Allen’s Paramount bid.

Then, below the fold: Lauren Sherman files a missing persons report for Alessandro Michele and rounds up other essential pre-Fashion Week dish. Eriq reveals why the producers of House of Cards are betting $35 million on Kevin Spacey. Abby Livingston chronicles the post-border bill whiplash rocking the upper chamber. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and comms guru Jamal Simmons contemplate the snowballing Biden media mystery. And on The Powers That Be, Ben Landy rings up Eriq to flesh out Byron’s F.C.C. trump card.

ERIQ GARDNER

Notes from the legal bar, in Wilmington and Washington, on Musk’s latest board entanglement and Byron Allen’s political play for Paramount.

LAUREN SHERMAN

News and notes on all the gossip and musings and rumor-mongering animating the prelude to New York Fashion Week.

ERIQ GARDNER

The ‘House of Cards’ star has quietly reached an extraordinary settlement that would wipe his debt clean if he testifies on behalf of MRC, the producer of the hit Netflix series, in its $150 million insurance claim.

ABBY LIVINGSTON

News, notes, observations, and horrors surrounding the latest machinations on Capitol Hill.