David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav, ex-CEO of the former Warner Bros Discovery, saw a windfall of just over $600 million as he handed over his WBD shares to Paramount at $31 each. An SEC filing Thursday shows the October 6 exchange of tranches of common stock and options as Paramount closed its…

David Zaslav is out of a job. But he’s getting a prodigious sum of $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, the company he fused together and led for more than four years before it agreed to be acquired by David Ellison’s Paramount. Zaslav, who was Warner Bros.…