Employment Agreement - Playboy Enterprises Inc. and Tony Lynn
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PLAYBOY ENTERPRISES INC. INTEROFFICE CORRESPONDENCE
DATE: August 15, 1996 PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL
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TO: Tony Lynn
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FROM: Christie Hefner
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SUBJECT: Employment Agreement
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Tony, this will confirm our agreement to amend your employment
agreement dated May 21, 1992 as follows:
1. The Employment Term will be extended through June 30, 2000.
2. Your Basic Compensation will be $525,000 for the period July 1,
1996 through June 30, 1997 and $550,000 for each year of your
Employment Term thereafter.
3. The Profits Base on which your Contingent Compensation will be
computed will continue to be $2.35 million.
4. The Contingent Compensation payable to you will continue to be 5%
of the amount by which the pre-tax profit of the Playboy
Entertainment Group for each fiscal year during the Employment
Term exceeds the Profits Base. However, once the sum of Basic
Compensation plus Contingent Compensation equals $2 million
in any fiscal year, any additional Contingent Compensation
payable to you in such fiscal year will be reduced to 2.5% of the
amount by which the pre-tax profit of the Playboy Entertainment
Group in such fiscal year exceeds the Profits Base.
5. Paragraph 3.D. under your Employment Agreement will be deleted in
its entirety and the following will be substituted in lieu
thereof:
D. Equity Bonus:
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(i) In the event that Company directly or indirectly sells,
transfers or otherwise disposes of an equity interest in the
Playboy Entertainment Group (or all or substantially all of
the assets comprising the Playboy Enter-
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tainment Group operations) to a third party (including a sale to
the public) during the Employment Term or within three (3) months
following the end of the Employment Term (an "Equity Disposition
Transaction"), then Employee shall be entitled to a one-time
Equity Bonus that will be computed by multiplying the Contingent
Compensation payable to Employee in the fiscal year immediately
preceding the fiscal year in which the Equity Disposition
Transaction takes place by the number of fiscal years remaining
in the Employment Term. The Equity Bonus will be paid to Employee
in cash promptly following the closing date of the Equity
Disposition Transaction.
(ii) It is the express intent of the parties hereto that the Equity
Bonus shall only be payable in connection with an Equity
Disposition Transaction which constitutes a bona fide transfer of
an equity interest in the Playboy Entertainment Group and shall
not be payable in connection with any other transaction (whether
in the form of joint ventures, co-productions or otherwise) which
represents a financing transaction. In no event shall Company
structure a transaction which would otherwise constitute a sale
or disposition of an equity interest in the Playboy Entertainment
Group as a financing transaction for the purpose of frustrating
the provisions of this Paragraph 3.D.
(iii) The payment of the Equity Bonus, if any, will be in addition to
any Contingent Compensation payable to you.
6. If your employment is terminated by the Company without cause, you will be
entitled to:
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(i) a one-time severance payment equal to your Basic Compensation in the
fiscal year in which such termination occurs; plus
(ii) 100% of the Contingent Compensation to which you would have been
entitled for, and only for, the fiscal year in which such termination
occurs (based on the actual pre-tax profits of the Playboy
Entertainment Group for such fiscal year).
Any amounts paid to you under this Paragraph 6. will be reduced by any
amounts paid to you pursuant to your Change in Control Severance Agreement
dated as of June 1, 1992.
Except as modified above, all of the other terms and conditions of your
employment agreement will remain as is.
ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO:
/s/ Anthony L. Lynn
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Date August 16, 1996
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