Nikki Finke Says She's Leaving Deadline (UPDATED)

Nikki Finke Says She's Leaving Deadline

Famed and feared Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke announced Thursday night that she intends to leave Deadline, the site she founded, by the end of the year.

Finke has been in a heated and very public battle with Jay Penske, the man she sold her website to. She continued that pattern on Thursday:

I am building out http://t.co/8vaMwz16aD and will unveil it right after the new year. Can't wait to report the real truth about Hollywood.

— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013

All that's left is for the lawyers to disentangle me from Penske. I have no idea why he has fought so hard to keep me. I'll be free soon.

— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013

Later, Finke tweeted that Penske had retaliated against her following her tweets:

I have been locked out of the Deadline Hollywood website which I founded 7 1/2 years ago. Jay Penske gave the order. Not even the staff knew

— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013

I now only have very limited access inside the Deadline website's admin after 7 1/2 years of full access. What a very sad day.

— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013

For weeks now Jay Penske pledged to me he would wage 'nuclear war' on me unless I obeyed him and stayed at Deadline. He started it Wednesday

— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013

I'm going to try to resume my box office story. But there's all sorts of alerts showing that Tech staff are inside my story. Hmm.

— Nikki Finke (@NikkiFinke) October 25, 2013

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