The Hollywood International Press Affiliation has sued Penske Media, dad or mum of Selection and The Hollywood Reporter, alleging firm the fraudulently acquired the Golden Globes as half of a bigger plan to monopolize the awards market.
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in California federal court docket, the HFPA accuses Penske Media of leveraging its management over the Hollywood trades to instigate a boycott of the group with the aim of rendering it susceptible to an acquisition.
“This case arises from a clandestine scheme to fraudulently purchase the distinguished and worthwhile 80-year-old Golden Globe Awards, destroy their founder and former proprietor, the HFPA, and exert monopolistic management over the Hollywood trades, awards, and promoting markets,” states the grievance.
Penske Media didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In 2023, Dick Clark Productions — the world’s largest producer and proprietor of televised reside occasion leisure programming, which shares the identical possession as THR — and Eldridge acquired the Golden Globes from the HFPA, the group of non-American journalists that based the awards present in 1943.
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