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Succession

Bernard Arnault
Lauren Sherman • December 2, 2024

Arnault Holds Barred

Bernard Arnault’s bizarre Thanksgiving Day courtroom appearance may have been awkward and uncomfortable, but it was less jarring than the apparent media blackout of the event that ensued.
Lauren Sherman • November 14, 2024
Arnault Boy Is All Grown Up
Alexandre Arnault
The LVMH succession drama heats up as 32-year-old Alexandre—last seen at the Trump rally at MSG—leaves Tiffany for the mothership’s booze business, where his celebrity connections and brand building could prop up a lagging division desperately in need of reinvention.
Rachel Strugatz • October 30, 2024
The Last Lauder
Jane Lauder
Jane, an ELC exec and a runner-up to replace departing C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, has announced she’s stepping back from the company her grandmother built, along with her cousin William Lauder. How will this notably un-familial succession drama, and the new reign of Stéphane de La Faverie, scramble the company the Lauders are leaving?
James Gorman
William D. Cohan • October 30, 2024
What Would James Gorman Do?
News, notes, tea leaf-reading, and second-guessing regarding Wall Street’s favorite (recurring) succession sweepstakes.
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Lauren Sherman • October 7, 2024
LVMH Succession Intrigue
Bernard Arnault has begun clearing the executive decks for the next generation—Delphine, Antoine, Alexandre, Frédéric, and Jean—amid growing anticipation of another sale and fresh acquisition targets as the fashion world braces for change.
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Eriq Gardner • September 3, 2024
The Murdoch Succession Trial Will (or Won’t!) Be Televised
Barricaded doors and records kept secret? Inside the Nevada battle for control of the Fox News empire—and whether the whole drama should be sealed off from public view.
The Bob Iger succession sweepstakes are under way.
Dylan Byers • August 30, 2024
The Burbank Campaign
News and notes on the intensifying shadow campaign to succeed Bob Iger at Disney as the fall closes in.
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Dylan Byers • August 23, 2024
On Walden’s Shores
News, notes, and the latest inside conversation among the Toscana crowd about Dana Walden’s odds of succeeding Bob Iger.
Fabrizio Freda
Rachel Strugatz • August 21, 2024
The Estée Exodus
Notes on the accelerated retirement of C.E.O. Fabrizio Freda, the two senior executives following him out the door, and whether Jane Lauder will step into her uncle Leonard’s old job running the family cosmetics empire.
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Lauren Sherman • July 22, 2024
Tom Ford After Tom Ford…
The quick departure of Peter Hawkings, Ford’s handpicked successor, begets the question: Without the founder’s obsessive control and inimitable taste, what’s left?