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  • Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's $40 Billion Hollywood Gambit and California Tax Escape Plan Revealed

    Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's $40 Billion Hollywood Gambit and California Tax Escape Plan Revealed
    Jan 10 2026
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    Larry Ellison has spent the past few days quietly moving pieces on three very big chessboards at once: Hollywood, Big Tech AI, and his own tax and real estate footprint in California.

    In Hollywood, his role as the unseen power behind his son David Ellisons Paramount Skydance bid for Warner Bros. Discovery remains the headline story. Fortune recently detailed how Larry agreed to personally guarantee about 40.4 billion dollars to back Paramounts 108 billion dollar hostile all cash offer after Warner boards earlier complaints that the Ellison financing was illusory. According to MarketWatch via Dow Jones, Warner Bros. Discovery this week again told shareholders that even Larry Ellisons vast fortune is not enough, urging them to reject the Paramount Skydance offer and stick with the already accepted Netflix deal, citing Paramounts heavy use of debt and saying the bid still undervalues the company. That keeps Larry firmly cast as the billionaire backstop trying to reshape the future of a Hollywood icon, but for now on the losing side of the board.

    At the same time, Ellison is a central figure in a broader story about billionaires fleeing California. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that he quietly sold his Pacific Heights Billionaires Row mansion in an off market deal for about 45 million dollars, the citys priciest residential sale of 2025. Fox Business and Fox News Digital frame that move as part of a strategic pullback ahead of a proposed 5 percent California wealth tax on residents worth more than 1 billion dollars, noting that Ellison, now officially based on Lanai, could face a multibillion dollar bill if he were still a California resident when and if the tax takes effect. Some details around his exit are still colored by speculation in tabloid outlets, but the core sale price and his broader shift away from California are well documented by mainstream business press.

    On the technology front, Ellison continues to position Oracle as an AI power broker. Coverage in Cloud Wars and in The Times of India of his recent Oracle earnings commentary highlights his argument that the real money in AI is not just training giant models but letting them securely reason over private corporate data, something he insists Oracle is uniquely positioned to deliver with its AI database, cloud infrastructure, and applications stack. That narrative, if it holds, could define the late career chapter of his biography as the database king who reinvented himself yet again for the AI era.

    There have been no widely reported major public appearances or viral social media posts from Ellison in the past 24 hours; his influence is showing up instead through filings, board letters, and strategic leaks around deals and tax moves. Speculation that he is simultaneously angling for influence in media and politics through his Hollywood financing and his reported closeness to Donald Trump is common in opinion pieces, but those political motives remain unconfirmed and should be treated as informed conjecture rather than fact.

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  • Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's $40B Hollywood Takeover and TikTok Control Shakes Tech and Media Worlds

    Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's $40B Hollywood Takeover and TikTok Control Shakes Tech and Media Worlds
    Jan 3 2026
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    Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire titan, has dominated headlines this week with two seismic moves that could redefine Hollywood and social media. According to a Paramount press release reported by Realtor.com and Bloomberg Podcasts, the 81-year-old personally guaranteed 40.4 billion dollars in equity financing for his son Davids Paramount Skydance bid to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery in a 108 billion dollar all-cash deal, countering Netflixs 82.7 billion dollar play for its studio and streaming assets. This irrevocable pledge, announced Monday, addresses board doubts over prior trust funding, hikes the breakup fee to 5.8 billion dollars, and gives shareholders until January 21 to decide, potentially reshaping content empires with greater production and theatrical output as David Ellison stated.

    In a parallel power play, Fortune and JTA report Oracle, under Ellisons helm, is clinching control of TikToks U.S. operations after Chinas approval, greenlit by President Trumps Thursday executive order. Ellison will oversee the algorithm and security in a consortium with backers like Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell, fulfilling a law mandating ByteDances divestiture over national security risks. Jewish leaders at the Jewish Federations of North America hail it as a win against antisemitism on the platform, citing Ellisons pro-Israel philanthropy. This builds on Oracles AI surge, including a 300 billion dollar OpenAI cloud deal and Stargate data centers with SoftBank.

    No public appearances or social media mentions surfaced in the past few days, and all details stem from verified outlets like CNN and Economic Times, with no unconfirmed speculation. These bets spotlight Ellisons enduring influence across tech, media, and geopolitics.

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  • Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle Titan's $40 Billion Warner Bros Guarantee Shakes Hollywood and Tech Worlds

    Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle Titan's $40 Billion Warner Bros Guarantee Shakes Hollywood and Tech Worlds
    Dec 27 2025
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    Larry Ellison, the Oracle titan and Hollywood power player, made waves this week with his bold personal financial guarantee backing son David Ellisons Paramount Skydance bid for Warner Bros Discovery. According to Bloomberg Technology on December 22, Ellison stepped in to assure the $40 billion deal, shifting funds from a revocable trust to ironclad backing, addressing Warner Bros concerns amid competition from Netflix. Screen Daily reports the exact figure as a $40.4 billion personal guarantee, a move analysts say could clinch the blockbuster merger and reshape media empires long-term.

    Whispers in LA Magazine suggest the Ellisons arent stopping at Warner Bros; Oracles eyeing a TikTok play too, fueling gossip of a family dynasty expanding into social video as ByteDance faces U.S. pressures. TradingView highlights Ellison center stage in AIs 2025 surge, with Oracles cloud bets positioning him as a kingmaker in techs hottest race.

    No fresh public appearances or social media posts from Ellison surfaced in the last few days, keeping the 80-year-old recluse firmly behind the scenes. Business buzz stays laser-focused on these media megadeals, with potential to etch his legacy beyond Silicon Valley into Tinseltown lore.

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  • Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle Titan's $300B AI Deal and TikTok Takeover Reshape Tech Empire

    Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle Titan's $300B AI Deal and TikTok Takeover Reshape Tech Empire
    Dec 20 2025
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    Larry Ellison has spent the past few days exactly where he likes to be: at the center of money, power, and controversy. The single biggest storyline is his deepening role in the future of social media and surveillance tech. Fortune reports that Oracle, the company Ellison co-founded and still dominates as executive chairman and CTO, has become a critical infrastructure partner in a massive multiyear cloud deal with OpenAI, worth an estimated 300 billion dollars in compute over about five years, a staggering bet that cements Ellison as one of the principal landlords of the AI era. Fortune also notes that Oracle is tied into the larger Stargate data center project with SoftBank and OpenAI, positioning Ellison as a core player in the physical backbone of next-generation artificial intelligence, a development with clear long-term biographical significance in the same league as his original Oracle database bet.

    Layered on top of that, Common Dreams and NPR report that Oracle and an investor group including Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi based MGX have secured an 80.1 percent stake in the new U.S. TikTok entity, giving Ellison’s camp control over the algorithm and data environment for roughly 170 million American users. Under the deal, TikTok’s U.S. algorithm will be retrained on American data, with content rules set by the new investor controlled board. Politically, Ellison is again in the crosshairs: Common Dreams highlights criticism from Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is questioning whether Donald Trump’s administration orchestrated a backdoor deal for a billionaire takeover of a key media platform, linking this move to earlier scrutiny over the Paramount Skydance merger led by Ellison’s son David. That political heat will likely stick to Larry’s legacy, reinforcing his image as the Silicon Valley billionaire most comfortable operating inside raw power politics.

    On the media front, industry reports summarized by IMDb’s news feed describe David and Larry Ellison as preparing a potential hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, directly challenging Netflix’s already announced multibillion dollar offer. While the bid remains in the realm of high level deal speculation rather than a finalized transaction, sources quoted in trade coverage say the Ellisons believe they can outbid Netflix with an all cash proposal and are furious over what they view as a rigged process favoring Paramount and Skydance. If this gambit advances, it would mark Larry Ellison’s most aggressive move yet into Hollywood, extending the family’s reach from Skydance into a full scale studio empire.

    No major verified public appearances or personal social media posts from Ellison himself have broken through in the last twenty four hours, and recent chatter about his whereabouts appears speculative rather than confirmed. What is clear, from Fortune, NPR, and the Hollywood trades, is that Larry Ellison is currently trying to own the cloud that runs your AI, the app that powers your short videos, and possibly the studio that makes your movies and shows. For a man once obsessed with databases, it is an unmistakable late life pivot into controlling culture and attention.

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  • Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle Titan's TikTok Takeover and $300B OpenAI Deal Reshape Tech Empire

    Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle Titan's TikTok Takeover and $300B OpenAI Deal Reshape Tech Empire
    Dec 13 2025
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    Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison is making seismic moves in social media and AI that could redefine his legacy as a tech titan with unmatched influence. Just this week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order greenlighting a multibillion-dollar deal to bring TikTok's U.S. operations under American control, with Ellison's Oracle poised to lead the charge. Fortune reports Oracle will oversee the app's algorithm and user data security, recreating a U.S. version while ensuring no Chinese backdoor access. Vice President JD Vance confirmed the algorithm falls under American investors, calling it fully U.S.-operated. Trump himself spotlighted Ellison's big role alongside backers like Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell, per White House statements.

    This caps a saga where Ellison, a staunch Trump ally, emerges as TikTok's kingmaker, stirring buzz about right-wing moguls dominating platforms from X to Facebook. The Nation highlights Ellison racing Elon Musk as the world's richest, now controlling TikTok alongside his son David's grip on CBS via Paramount and potential CNN sway. Jewish leaders are optimistic too; JTA notes Oracle's deal, led by the Israel-supporting Ellison—who's donated millions to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces—could curb antisemitism rampant on the app, as praised by JFNA CEO Eric Fingerhut.

    Business-wise, Oracle stunned Wall Street with a 300 billion-dollar OpenAI cloud deal for AI computing power, plus Stargate Project data centers with SoftBank, fueling 455 billion in contracts—a 359 percent jump, per recent earnings calls. No fresh public appearances or social media posts from Ellison in the last few days, but these developments scream long-term power plays in surveillance tech, echoing his past prediction of AI-monitored citizens on best behavior.

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  • Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's Secret Empire - From Wildlife Sanctuaries to TikTok and AI Billions

    Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's Secret Empire - From Wildlife Sanctuaries to TikTok and AI Billions
    Dec 6 2025
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    Larry Ellison has spent the past few days doing what now defines the late chapter of his life story: quietly tightening his grip on technology, media, and real estate while letting others speak for him in public. According to the Palm Beach Post, Ellison recently added Lion Country Safari in Palm Beach County to his trophy‑property collection, paying about 30 million dollars through a company tied to his family address, and local brokers say his Florida land play now approaches half a billion dollars and is likely tied to his wildlife‑focused philanthropy rather than a quick flip. Palm Beach reporting also notes that this comes on top of his near‑total ownership of the Hawaiian island of Lanai and a cluster of ultra‑luxury resorts and estates, underlining how central land, privacy, and controlled environments have become to his legacy as much as software ever was.

    In business and politics, recent coverage from Fortune and The American Prospect puts Ellison at the center of two of the decade’s biggest stories: the AI compute boom and the remaking of global media. Fortune reports that Oracle stunned Wall Street by inking a roughly 300 billion dollar cloud deal with OpenAI, part of a 455‑billion‑dollar backlog that briefly helped make Ellison the richest person on earth this fall, while he championed AI‑driven surveillance as a way to keep both cops and citizens “on their best behavior.” The American Prospect and Business Insider both describe how a relatively small slice of that fortune helped his son David take over Paramount and CBS, then circle Warner Bros. Discovery and CNN, positioning the Ellisons to become a Murdoch‑scale conservative media dynasty if regulators and the White House sign off.

    On social platforms, The Nation and Jewish Telegraphic Agency outlets report that Oracle is set to lead a U.S. investor group taking control of TikTok’s American operations, giving Ellison a major stake in one of the world’s most influential apps and raising hopes in some Jewish and pro‑Israel circles that he will clamp down on antisemitism there, even as critics warn of a hard‑right media bloc spanning Facebook, X, TikTok, CBS, and possibly CNN. Public appearances from Ellison himself remain scarce in the last few days; most headlines lean on past comments, regulatory maneuvering, and property records rather than fresh sound bites, consistent with his increasingly behind‑the‑curtain style.

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  • Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's Oracle Empire - From CIA Project to Cloud Computing Titan

    Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's Oracle Empire - From CIA Project to Cloud Computing Titan
    Dec 5 2025
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  • Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle CEO's $100 Billion AI Play and Hollywood Media Empire Expansion

    Larry Ellison Biography Flash: Oracle CEO's $100 Billion AI Play and Hollywood Media Empire Expansion
    Nov 21 2025
    Over the past few days Larry Ellison has continued to assert his outsize influence at Oracle where he now controls about 40 percent of the company, according to SalesforceBen. This deepening grip signals Ellison's intent to steer Oracle through the next wave of AI-driven growth with an iron hand, raising both optimism and nerves among industry insiders—especially those at rival Salesforce. While Ellison's longtime personal and professional connection with Salesforce's Marc Benioff continues to make headlines, there is increasing speculation that Oracle’s AI infrastructure ambitions will put it in more direct competition with its former protégés.

    The biggest development for Ellison, though, extends far outside the database world. According to a detailed analyst report on RCR Wireless, Ellison’s multibillion-dollar bets on media, notably his investment in Paramount and attempts to court TikTok, are part of a much wider play: creating demand for Oracle’s AI data centers, rumored to have budgets surpassing 100 billion dollars. This move isn’t some billionaire vanity project—it’s a textbook example of Ellison vertically integrating the AI economy by locking down both the compute supply and the insatiable demand from media and social platforms. If this strategy pays off, it could shelter Oracle from the kind of commodity trap that challenges other infrastructure providers and place Ellison at the center of a new tech-media stack with massive long-term implications.

    Ellison’s media involvement continues to spark both public buzz and intrigue behind the scenes. AOL reports that as the primary shareholder in the merged Paramount Skydance entity, Ellison has been actively discussing new corporate maneuvers, including talk of potentially acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. While no deals have been confirmed, industry chatter suggests that Ellison is not just content with Paramount; he’s looking to expand this Hollywood footprint, adding more high-powered chess pieces to his media empire. Insiders even mention Ellison weighing in on CNN’s leadership, although any action remains deeply speculative. Still, this overlapping of Silicon Valley and Hollywood simply fuels the narrative of Ellison as a mastermind shaping the future of data, media, and influence.

    On the business activity front, Oracle’s AI-driven cloud infrastructure remains a major newsmaker, though Ellison himself has kept a low profile in public appearances this week. Social media discourse reflects rising curiosity and analysis of his bold moves, but Ellison’s own accounts have stayed characteristically silent, letting his capital do the talking.

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