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Paramount won't say whether Middle East money is funding its WBD deal​

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Saudi Arabian ruler Mohammed bin Salman at a US-Saudi investment event in Washington, DC, in November 2025. In December, Paramount said a Saudi-controlled fund would pitch in $10 billion toward its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
Mar 3, 2026, 2:18 AM GMT+8

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• In December, Paramount's Larry and David Ellison said they had partners to help them buy WBD: Three Gulf states.
• At the time, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar were going to chip in a collective $24 billion into the deal.
• Are those countries part of the new deal Paramount struck with WBD last week? We don't know yet.

A few months ago, Larry and David Ellison's Paramount said it had lined up big backers for its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery: three Middle Eastern countries, which would contribute a total of $24 billion to help buy the media conglomerate.