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David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
Zaslav, who walks away with about with $1 billion, made sure that the wealth effect of the deal more than trickled down through WBD, and not just among senior executives.
David Zaslav, ex-CEO of the former Warner Bros. Discovery saw a windfall as he handed over his WBD shares to Paramount at $31 each.