He was the first prominent victim of cancel culture.
It's easy to say “he got what he deserved” because you didn't like his style on the radio but what happened to him was wrong. The asterisk in his bio is because of people like Sharpton, who was a frequent guest on Imus, wanted to get a belt notch.
How many of us will like to go to their graves and have their whole life defined by one blunder?
Imus won a large settlement from CBS radio after they fired him. I believe he was basically paid out for the remainder of his contract.
From what I understand, he filed a lawsuit against them and simply cited the provision in his contract that explicitly said his job was to say incendiary things on the air. LOL.