David Zaslav to Receive Estimated $887 Million in Compensation Related to Warner Bros.-Paramount Merger

Mar 16, 2026 3:02pm PT David Zaslav to Receive Estimated $887 Million in Compensation Related to Warner Bros.-Paramount Merger Amount includes $335 million tax reimbursement for the exec By Todd Spangler Plus Icon Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor xpangler Latest David Zaslav to Receive Estimated $887 Million in Compensation Related to Warner Bros.-Paramount Merger 8 minutes ago Paramount’s Jeff Shell Fires Back: Exec Says Allegation He Leaked Private Corporate Info Is ‘Utterly False Tale’ Created in a ‘Shakedown’ Attempt 4 hours ago For Trump’s FCC Chairman, Trolling Liberals Is the Point of His Threat to Pull Licenses of TV Networks That Air ‘Fake News’ About Iran War 7 hours ago See All That’s quite a golden parachute: David Zaslav is set to receive an estimated $887 million in compensation with the closing of Paramount Skydance ‘s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery . On Monday, WBD disclosed the estimated amounts of compensation for each of WBD’s named executive officers related to Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, also referred to as “golden parachute” compensation. Zaslav, the president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, is set to receive $34.2 million in cash severance; $517.2 million in equity in the combined company; $335.4 million in tax reimbursements; and $44,195 in continued health coverage reimbursement benefits. Popular on Variety Last month, Zaslav sold $114 million worth of WBD stock after Paramount won the bidding war for the company. WBD said the amounts quantified in the section outlining the golden parachute comp “are estimates based on multiple assumptions” and that “the actual amounts, if any, that may be paid or become payable to directors and executive officers may materially differ from such estimates.” Jump to Comments More from Variety Sean Penn Skipped the Oscars to Meet With President Zelenskyy in Ukraine, Who Thanks Him as a ‘True Friend’ to the Country Warner Bros. Discovery Chief David Zaslav Celebrates Oscar...