(BPT) - In a new legal turn, a U.S. federal court may require the daughter of Polish media mogul Zygmunt Solorz to hand over documents related to an ongoing dispute over the succession of his companies.
A new filing in California alleges that the self-made billionaire's children misled him into prematurely initiating succession proceedings — raising questions about manipulation and control over a multi-billion-dollar media empire.
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