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Jessie's New Boss: Steven King

This is a funny little story about Jessie’s new uber-boss:

THE SKELETON’S IN STEVE KING’S CLOSET – Don’t expect newly anointed Zenith Optimedia chief Steve King to relocate the media buying giant’s worldwide headquarters to New York any time soon. In keeping with Zenith’s roots, the company will remain in London. But the Riff can’t help wondering if the reason has more to do with a horrible experience King had while working for Zenith in New York, than it does with any other real estate issues. It seems that during the mid-1990s when King served as COO of Zenith North America and was working in its Houston Street offices in Lower Manhattan, he would mistakenly receive mail from another Steve King. “Penguin Books, was in the same building, and at the time they were publishing some of Stephen King’s books,” recalls Zenith’s King. “Most of my mail when I was general manager and COO of Zenith came from strange people sending in the weirdest letters, like, ‘Would you like me to tell you my story about how I butchered my husband and have him buried in my basement?”

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