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The Golden Globes has terminated its argumentation of paying $75,000 yearly salaries to erstwhile members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
Helen Hoehne, the organization’s president, made the announcement connected a Zoom telephone Friday, with the 50 members who volition nary longer beryllium paid arsenic voting members of the Globes.
The members were offered $102,500 severance and allowed to stay arsenic Golden Globe members done 2026.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Golden Globes described the alteration successful argumentation arsenic “an acknowledgment that continuing to wage members could adhd to a cognition of bias successful voting.”
The enactment “was afloat gathering its contractual obligations to the voters by offering the severance,” the connection said.
The affected 50 members are a tiny radical of the larger Globes voting body, which is made up of 300 individuals representing 85 countries.
In June 2023, the nonprofit Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced it had been acquired by an confederation of Penske Media and Eldridge Industries, known arsenic Penske Media Eldridge, that would dissolve the embattled HFPA — the tiny radical of planetary journalists that handed retired the Golden Globes for 80 years — and person the nonprofit’s past 95 members into employees of a caller for-profit enterprise.
The alteration successful presumption came successful the aftermath of a Times probe successful 2021 that exposed a tumultuous enactment that had no Black members and raised concerns astir its morals and fiscal practices. The Times’ probe revealed that the nonprofit made millions of dollars successful payments to its ain members for committee enactment and different tasks.
After the investigation, overmuch of Hollywood chopped ties with the HFPA, yet starring NBC to pull the amusement disconnected the aerial successful 2022, and the enactment undertook wide reforms.
Times unit writer Josh Rottenberg contributed to this report.
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