He sold his sprawling entertainment empire in 1936.
Following Lee's death, three of his former followers stepped in to defend his lucrative entertainment empire from other triads.
The sports and entertainment empire he has masterminded on the strength of four Yankee championships in the last six years is beginning to crack.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was a filmmaker and co-founder of the entertainment empire bearing his name.
Blockbuster's move was the latest in a series of investments that reach beyond the company's core business to reposition itself as an entertainment empire.
The new venture marks yet another expansion of the jazz musician's growing entertainment empire.
Instead, they would create a new entertainment empire spanning over film productions, artist management, concert production, publishing and both digital and traditional music industries.
Most had expected the deal, which would create the world's largest entertainment empire, to breeze through the regulatory process.
Something that, if you were Robert Redford - actor, director, one-man entertainment empire - might be very easy to forget.
Its theme is familiar: to grow yet again, this time into an entertainment empire that excites images of Disney by the turnpike.