{"id":2298523,"date":"2026-02-25T00:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2298523"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:28:36","slug":"whistleblower-claims-paramount-president-jeff-shell-leaked-details-of-7-7-billion-ufc-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/whistleblower-claims-paramount-president-jeff-shell-leaked-details-of-7-7-billion-ufc-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Claims Paramount President Jeff Shell Leaked Details of $7.7 Billion UFC Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paramount<\/a> president Jeff Shell<\/a> improperly disclosed specific details about the timing, cost and structure of the public company\u2019s $7.7 billion media rights deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship<\/a> almost a month before its August 2025 announcement \u2014 that\u2019s the allegation of leaked confidential data that an outside law firm is now investigating, The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> has learned. The SEC<\/a> is also now reviewing a related whistleblower complaint.<\/p>\n

UFC<\/a> parent Tko Group Holdings\u2019 stock price surged 10 percent following news of the Paramount pact.<\/p>\n

The reporting party is R.J. Cipriani<\/a>, a high-stakes gambler with a documented history as a federal whistleblower. He\u2019s been in settlement negotiations with Shell over a dispute involving consultation services. He declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Both men have shared the same attorney: noted Hollywood power lawyer Patricia Glaser<\/a>, who no longer reps Cipriani.<\/p>\n

When asked for comment, Glaser said in a statement, \u201cwe were presented with a draft complaint…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paramount president Jeff Shell improperly disclosed specific details about the timing, cost and structure of the public company\u2019s $7.7 billion media rights deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship almost a month before its August 2025 announcement \u2014 that\u2019s the allegation of leaked confidential data that an outside law firm is now investigating, The Hollywood Reporter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2298524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2298523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Whistleblower-Claims-Paramount-President-Jeff-Shell-Leaked-Details-of-77.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298525,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298523\/revisions\/2298525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}