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Gerald Levin, Media Executive Behind Time Warner-AOL Merger Debacle, Dies at 84


Gerald M. Levin, the media executive who orchestrated the disastrous merger of Time Warner and AOL, has died. He was 84.

Gerald M. Levin, the media executive who orchestrated the disastrous merger of Time Warner and AOL, died Wednesday. Levin was Time Warner’s chief executive when he and then-AOL CEO Steve Case devised the merger of the two companies. The deal was announced on Jan. 10, 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, and created AOL Time Warner.

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