How Celebrity Memoir Deals Actually Pay — and Who Keeps the Story
The advance gets the headlines. The ghostwriter fee, the royalty escalators and the rights split decide who really cashes the check.
Celebrity News and Profiles
Famous people treated as businesses: payrolls, production companies, equity stakes, licensing income and the liabilities that follow a public name.
Celebrity Deaths: How Newsrooms Prepare, Verify and Break the News
Obituaries get written years in advance. The hard part is deciding what to publish, and when.
Celebrity Cruises, Explained: What a Star-Studded Sailing Really Sells
Themed voyages look like fan service. They are a business with three payers and one product.
How a Profit Participation Agreement Actually Pays a Star
Points, percentages, and the accounting choices that decide whether a star's back-end check arrives or never does.
Widow's Bay Takes Six Emmys: What the Record Night Means for the Winners
Apple TV's comedy-horror hybrid set a new 14-Emmy record, and the names on the winners list now hold the most leverage of their careers.
