Is Nikki Finke Ankling Her New Gig Already?
John Cook —Does reclusive Hollywood scoopstress Nikki Finke want out of her multimillion dollar* deal with Mail.com? She says she recently turned down an offer from the Hollywood Reporter to lead the flailing trade. Her archnemesis Sharon Waxman hears they’re still talking. Back in June, Nikki Finke sold her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily, to Jay Penske’s Mail.com for $15 million no where even remotely close to $15 million. She stayed on as the site’s editor-in-chief and “bring DHD to the next level.” Traditionally, arrangements involving the transfer of large sums of money in exchange for property and services are conducted via a contract, which impose certain obligations on the parties. But maybe not in this case. According to an item she posted this morning, Finke was approached by the Hollywood Reporter back in December: [I]n early December 2009, the new owners of The Hollywood Reporter approached me about becoming the trade’s new editor-in-chief. In late January 2010, they made me
