Vanity Fair : Don Flood Just ask Sumner Redstone, shown here standing in front of one of his massive display tanks. The 85yo Viacom CEO turns out to be a big time fish collector! Back in 2007 he was worth an estimated 7.6 Billion, but has since taken some substantial hits… Nonetheless he has a fish [...]
Vanity Fair : Don Flood
Just ask Sumner Redstone, shown here standing in front of one of his massive display tanks. The 85yo Viacom CEO turns out to be a big time fish collector! Back in 2007 he was worth an estimated 7.6 Billion, but has since taken some substantial hits… Nonetheless he has a fish collection most would envy: Chaetodon tinkeri, Chaetodon wiebeli and Centropyge interruptus to name a few.
Via CNN in 2005:
“When people around Viacom say, “Sumner’s gone fishing,” they don’t mean that he has escaped with a fly-casting rod to a mountain stream. No, they mean Redstone has asked a driver to take him down the hill to visit aquarium stores all around Los Angeles in search of rare tropical fish. He owns about 200 of the creatures, which he keeps in five tanks–three for fish, one for coral, and one for sea horses, as well as a hospital tank for fish in need of medical treatment.
This is no casual hobby. Redstone knows the names of all the fish, studies their habits, and grows attached to them…His specialty is angelfish.”
