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How Vice became ‘a fucking clown show’

The wild expenses, shady deals, and greed that ruined Vice.

Dubuc brought in Jesse Angelo, a childhood friend of James Murdoch’s who had spent his career up until that point working exclusively for News Corp. She also hired Cory Haik, the former publisher of a digital startup called Mic, after that company collapsed and laid off nearly its entire staff. A name is missing from the list of executives in the filing: Nancy Dubuc, who abruptly stepped down as CEO in February 2023, days after receiving the termination notice from GMN Cayman. “I decided to leave Vice because I believed that the board and new co-CEOs, having already failed to close two transactions, did not have a strategic vision for the company and were steering it towards bankruptcy,” he said in an emailed statement.

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