Legal threat from Mario Gabelli was ‘major factor' in doomed Paramount merger

A legal threat from investor Mario Gabelli was a "major factor" in this week's implosion of Shari Redstone's $8 billion deal to merge Paramount Global with its "Mission: Impossible" production partner Skydance Media, The Post has learned. When Redstone made a surprise move to pull the plug on the deal this week — just before a Paramount special committee was poised to vote on it — she was looking down the barrel of a $100 million-plus lawsuit from Gabelli over the deal, according to sources close to the sit ...