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Vivendi Raided
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French Police Raid Vivendi HQ, Messier Home (thanks Worthplaying) has word that the media giant and its former CEO have been raided by French authorities investigating accounting irregularities during his tenure. Here's a bit:

Police raided the Paris headquarters of Vivendi Universal and the homes of its disgraced former chief Jean-Marie Messier on Thursday as part of an investigation into the media giant's accounts.

French investigators swooped on the offices near Arc de Triomphe and Messier's residences in and around the French capital to search for documents in a probe into potential irregularities during the ousted chief executive's leadership.

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Re: Blue Cheese
Dec 12, 2002, 14:14

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Re: Blue Cheese Dec 12, 2002, 14:14

Dec 12, 2002, 14:14

Schnapple

It was Roberta and Ken Williams...What ever happened to them?

They sold Sierra to Vivendi in 1996. Roberta's last game with Sierra was the eighth King's Quest game Mask of Eternity, following which she promptly decided to take some time off. Mask of Eternity proved to be a disappointing game, critcially and sales wise, due to a largely misdirected attempt to bring the Adventure Game genre into 3-D (the game had more melee than puzzle solving).

Ken left shortly after Sierra was sold to form WorldStream Communications.

Roberta still keeps up with the adventure game scene and reportedly still flirts with the idea of coming out of retirement, but has yet to do so (the latest interview I could find with her is dated 1999).

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