Story Arc Jeff Shell Sundance/Getty A $150 million lawsuit filed Monday against Jeff Shell looks to be putting the Paramount executive in both legal and corporate peril. "Jeff knows he f*cked up," an insider told Deadline this morning as the long-anticipated action by Robert James "RJ" Cipriani hit the court docket. "His second act is over," the source added of Shell, who was booted from his NBCUniversal CEO gig in 2023 under a cloud of misconduct involving a female CNBC reporter.