Stacy Perman is a Business reporter working on investigations and enterprise stories covering the entertainment industry. She reported on The Times investigation into the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.; profiled Hunter Biden’s lawyer and benefactor Kevin Morris; investigated the unsolved disappearance of a 1940s child star; uncovered the mystery of a rare, stolen cello; delved into the secret payments and scandal-plagued career of Vince McMahon, the reality of the hit show “Shark Tank” and the career of a longtime indie producer with a trail of lawsuits and fraud accusations. Born in Los Angeles, she has lived in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, reported from many countries and corners of the U.S. Before joining The Times in 2018, she was a writer and correspondent for Time and Businessweek; her work has appeared in a number of publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Inc. and the Hollywood Reporter. She is the author of three books including the New York Times bestseller “In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-The-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules.”
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Ireland, with its storytelling tradition, infrastructure, experienced crews, lower labor costs and competitive tax incentives, has become a major filming destination for American films, TV series and even game shows as movie and TV productions leave Los Angeles to film elsewhere.
A former long-standing member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. ends his four-year legal battle with the organization behind the Golden Globes.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison can proclaim victory after settling a lawsuit with state attorneys general that held up his company’s merger with Warner Bros. But Ellison will have considerable work ahead to repair frayed relations with Hollywood talent.
Activision Blizzard previously agreed to pay about $50 million to settle a California employment discrimination and equal pay lawsuit.
Actor Tom Cruise announces a new “Days of Thunder” sequel 36 years after the original blockbuster
‘Derogatory’ fliers directed at the Armenian community were scattered around a Glendale elementary school, police are investigating the matter as a potential hate incident.
L.A. rapper ColdheartedAC and two others were arrested and charged in a multimillion-dollar check-cashing scheme across Southern California.
A former child actor alleges that she was ‘repeatedly raped and abused’ by an adult while working on the Disney Channel movie ‘The Poof Point.’
Jerry Sharell alleges in a lawsuit that he was ‘intentionally excluded” from a group of 20 employees who migrated to Texas because he is openly “homosexual” and was later singled out before being put on hiatus.
The story of how L.A. steadily lost much of its homegrown industry to other locales is a tale of hubris, escalating costs, political inaction and fierce competition from states and countries hungry for a piece of the Hollywood pie.