International Directory of Business Biographies


Sumner M. Redstone Biography

Chairman and chief executive officer, Viacom International; chairman and chief executive officer, National Amusements

Nationality: American.

Born: May 27, 1923, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Education: Harvard University, BA, 1944; Harvard Law School, LLB, 1947.

Family: Son of Michael Rothstein, a salesman then owner of Northeast Theater Corporation, and Bella Ostrovksy; married Phyllis Raphael, a schoolteacher, 1947 (divorced); children: two.

Career: U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1947, law clerk; U.S. Justice Department, 1948–1950, special assistant to the Attorney General; Ford, Bergson, Adams, Borkland & Redstone,...

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