Nikki Finke says she is set to leave the website she founded and start over again at NikkiFinke.com, announcing it on Twitter on Thursday.
“I am building out NikkiFinke.com and will unveil it right after the new year,” she tweeted. “Can’t wait to report the real truth about Hollywood.”
Finke added in another tweet: “All that’s left is for the lawyers to disentangle me from [owner Jay] Penske. I have no idea why he has fought so hard to keep me. I’ll be free soon.”
Also read: SHOCKER: Jay Penske Fires Nikki Finke From Deadline Hollywood, Sources Say
Trouble has been brewing on the Finke front for several months. TheWrap broke the news in June that Finke and Penske were at loggerheads, to the point where insiders said that the Variety and Deadline owner had fired her.
In June, Finke declined to respond to TheWrap's report in advance or afterward, while Penske called the report "untrue" but declined to respond to repeated questions to clarify her status. Later he issued a statement saying PMC would honor its "obligations" to Finke.
Also read: Nikki Finke Breaks Silence on Jay Penske Feud: Gimme Deadline Back
Matters had been ambiguous since that point, with Finke ducking in and out of "vacation," and at one point sending an email blast informing the industry she would no longer be reporting on the box office "until further notice." Finke then wrote a box office story shortly thereafter.
She made her desire to buy Deadline.com back from Penske known in interviews with several news outlets, but things came to a head on Thursday when Penske apparently shut off the automatic Twitter feed of Deadline article to her account, apparently because she had too many followers.
“Penske makes it official: With no advance warning, he pulled the Deadline news feed from my Twitter account,” Finke wrote. “I have ‘too many followers’.”
Finke did not respond to requests for comment. Penske did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Her tweets are below:
Penske makes it official: With no advance warning, he pulled the Deadline news feed from my Twitter account. I have “too many followers”.
— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 24, 2013
I am building out http://t.co/8vaMwz16aD and will unveil it right after the new year. Can’t wait to report the real truth about Hollywood.
— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013
All that’s left is for the lawyers to disentangle me from Penske. I have no idea why he has fought so hard to keep me. I’ll be free soon.
— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013
The post Nikki Finke Claims to Be Leaving Deadline, Announces NikkiFinke.com appeared first on TheWrap.
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