Ex-Disney CEO Bob Chapek Says Bob Iger Ran ‘Relentless Three-Year Campaign’ to Fire Him: ‘Made It Seem as If I Had Committed Some Terrible Offense’

By Jennifer Maas

Jennifer Maas

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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.

“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?”

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