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  • Mr. Kluge sold his company, Metromedia, to 20th Century Fox in 1986, which eventually was taken over by media genius Rupert Fox and became the foundation for his Fox network, "We Report, You Decide".

    Georgialee Lang: How to Blow a Billion Dollars Georgialee Lang 2011

  • Kluge had moved to Charlottesville with her then-husband, John Kluge, the billionaire founder of Metromedia, a chain of media properties later sold to Rupert Murdoch that became the foundation for the Fox network.

    Va. winemaker's painstakingly built empire crumbled in months amid recession 2011

  • Seller: Patricia Kluge, an ex-wife of the late Metromedia founder and billionaire John Kluge, whose communications empire included broadcast and cellphones

    tk# 2010

  • Mr. Kluge, 34 years her senior, was named the second-richest man in America in 1986 by Forbes magazine after making billions from his Metromedia broadcasting empire.

    The Fall of the House of Kluge Leads to the Rise of the Yard of Trump Robert Frank 2011

  • I also seized the opportunity to become the first "McLuhanesque" consultant and producer and soon had a thriving business working with clients that included General Electric, Metromedia, Columbia Pictures, Scott Paper and the White House.

    John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012

  • Philip Beaurline Patricia Kluge, an ex-wife of the late Metromedia founder John Kluge, listed this 300-acre estate in Charlottesville, Va., last October for $100 million.

    Sellers Who Caved on Price 2010

  • Consistent with this pattern, on the same Friday that the OIG Stanford Report was publicly released and the Goldman action was announced, April 16, 2010, the SEC also publicly released the OIG's ROI concerning the SEC's failure to timely investigate allegations of financial fraud at Metromedia International Group, Inc., which had been submitted to the SEC by the OIG almost two months earlier.

    Project On Government Oversight: The Case of the Missing Inspector General Reports Project On Government Oversight 2010

  • Consistent with this pattern, on the same Friday that the OIG Stanford Report was publicly released and the Goldman action was announced, April 16, 2010, the SEC also publicly released the OIG's ROI concerning the SEC's failure to timely investigate allegations of financial fraud at Metromedia International Group, Inc., which had been submitted to the SEC by the OIG almost two months earlier.

    Project On Government Oversight: The Case of the Missing Inspector General Reports Project On Government Oversight 2010

  • The company is now developing a way to manufacture the beads on a large scale, says Stuart Subotnick , president of Metromedia and chief executive of the biosciences business.

    Novel Effort To Fight Cancer With Cancer Cells Ron Winslow 2011

  • Mr. Kluge sold his company, Metromedia, to 20th Century Fox in 1986, which eventually was taken over by media genius Rupert Fox and became the foundation for his Fox network, "We Report, You Decide".

    Georgialee Lang: How to Blow a Billion Dollars Georgialee Lang 2011

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