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• CAA’s New Suitor Has an Inside Connection: French billionaire François-Henri Pinault has set his sights on the talent behemoth CAA. I’m told by two sources that Pinault, chairman and C.E.O. of the luxury fashion group Kering, has approached TPG, the private equity firm, about buying out its stake. Pinault, of course, is also the husband of actress and CAA client Salma Hayek-Pinault, so that would work out nicely.

  Remember, TPG first invested in CAA back in 2010 and became the majority owner in 2014—an eternity in private equity years. But TPG has received other incoming calls about CAA over the years, and, as recently as 2021, it chose to...

It got heated. Todd Phillips, who had just come off a contentious writing credit dispute over Robert Downey Jr.’s contributions to Due Date, alternatively referred to the WGA as...