Monday, November 10, 2025

Motown Great Suzanne de Passe Scores $1 Billion Development Deal with Hot Finance Partners for New Media Company

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Suzanne de Passe is a name we don’t see often enough in success stories.

Suzanne literally ran Motown and was Berry Gordy’s head of state for a long, long time. She’s much younger than the 95 year old legend, trust me!

Suzanne has 2 Emmy Awards, 30 Emmy Nominations, 1 Golden Globe, an Oscar nomination, 3 Peabody Awards for Excellence in Television, 5 NAACP Image Awards, and was a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee in 2024.

Now she’s gone into business with heavy finance partners and scored $1 billion in credit for a new company called Immortal. They are backed by a landmark strategic alliance with Vobile and Yangbin Wang, Chairman and CEO of Vobile. She’ll be guiding it with Madison Jones, who already works with at DePasse Jones Entertainment, and leading entertainment attorney Corey Martin, Esq., Managing Partner of Granderson Des Rochers law firm.

Immortal Studio enters the market with a bold strategic mandate: to fully finance the
development of complete seasons of premium television, streamlining the path from story
conception to global screen. The studio combines financial firepower with traditional storytelling expertise and cutting-edge technology to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving entertainment industry.

The main story is Suzanne, who can do anything — and again, doesn’t get enough credit for being the top female executive in movies, TV, and music. We’re going to see big things from Immortal — like maybe the real Marvin Gaye movie — one that shows his genius. Only she can do it!

PS One day Suzanne will write her book and we’ll find out everything — probably more than we can take — about Diana, Michael, Smokey, Stevie, and Berry. I’m ready to read it now!

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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