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One of Hollywood’s most-powerful talent agencies has acquired one of soccer’s biggest player representation agencies.
Los Angeles-based International Creative Management Partners, whose clients include the actors Samuel L. Jackson and Ellen DeGeneres, said Thursday it had purchased the London-based Stellar Group, representatives of Gareth Bale, once the world’s most-expensive player, as part of plans to diversify into sports.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. But three years ago, in a prospectus obtained by The New York Times, Bale’s agent, Jonathan Barnett, had set a floor for offers for his agency at 100 million pounds (currently about $129 million).