The share price of the former investors darling fell on the news.
He remained on the board as the company, a Silicon Valley darling, fell from grace after regulators uncovered a slew of problems.
As the crowds funneled out of Marc Jacobs's very-Julie-Christie-in- Darling" fall show in New York last month, the expression one kept hearing people use to describe it was "very-Julie-Christie-in- Darling
The most negatively portrayed companies managed to beat the market by an average of 12.4%, whereas the outperformance of the media darlings fell to just 4.2%.
While the spotlight has glared brightly on Facebook in recent weeks, it is far from the only tech darling to fall after its I.P.O.
What is certainly true is that Hirst is not the first art market darling to fall out of favor and he won't be the last.
The telecoms firm, once a stock market darling, had fallen on hard times.
BG Group, the gas explorer and producer, had been a stock market darling but fell back because of cost overruns on big projects.
John Rockwell of The New York Times wrote in 1975 that the Troggs, whom he characterized as "cave-man primitive," were "everything mothers feared their darlings would fall for or turn into".
It was clear for all to see that the two men had radically different personalities and ways of working, and it is widely known that Darling sometimes fell foul of Brown's uncouth henchmen.
A short time later, Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) ― widely regarded as an NRA darling ― fell to Democratic challenger Jennifer Wexton in a battle for Virginia's 10th congressional district, which houses NRA's headquarters.
