Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek claims his predecessor-turned-successor Bob Iger underwent a “relentless three-year campaign to push me out” after initially appointing him to the job.
\n\n“The way Disney’s board and Bob Iger handled my firing made it seem as if I had committed some terrible offense,” Chapek writes in an excerpt from his upcoming book “Behind the Castle Walls,” which was published by Vanity Fair Thursday. “To outsiders, it looked suspicious — who gets ousted on a Sunday, right before a company’s big event, unless they’re guilty of something?”
\n\nChapek took over the Disney CEO job in February 2020 — as Iger’s hand-picked successor. But in November 2022, the Disney board ousted Chapek after a series of missteps and called Iger back into service. (Iger stepped down as CEO this March, replaced by former parks head Josh D’Amaro.)
\n\n“From the moment he announced my appointment, he clearly regretted it and seemed to initiate a relentless three-year campaign to push me out,” Chapek writes of Iger. “From day one as CEO, I had respected the board’s decision to have him remain as executive chairman, directing creative endeavors and overseeing the transition until late 2021. I’d always made it clear I…
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