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-------- UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OMB APPROVAL
FORM 4 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 ----------------------------
-------- STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OMB Number: 3235-0287
/ / Check this box if no Expires: December 31, 2001
longer subject to Estimate average burden
Section 16. Form 4 or Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, hours per response .... 0.5
Form 5 obligations may Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or ----------------------------
continue. SEE Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
Instruction 1(b).
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol 6. Relationship of Reporting Person
to Issuer (Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
GAROFALO STEPHEN A. Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. ("MFNX") ---- ----
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(Last) (First) (Middle) 3. IRS Identification 4. Statement for ---- title ---- (specify
Number of Reporting Month/Year below) below
Person, if an entity Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
(Voluntary) -------------------------------------
c/o Metromedia Company, One Meadowlands Plz. NOVEMBER 2000
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(Street) 5. If Amendment, (ceck applicable line)
Date of Original X Form filed by One Reporting Person
(Month/Year) ---
Form filed by More than One
Reporting Person
East Rutherford New Jersey 07073 ---
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(City) (State) (Zip) TABLE I - NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Trans- 3. Trans- 4. Securities Acquired (A) 5. Amount of 6. Owner- 7. Nature
(Instr. 3) action action or Disposed of (D) Securities ship of In-
Date Code (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Form: direct
(Instr. 8) Owned at Direct Bene-
(Month/ End of (D) or ficial
Day/ ------------------------------------------- Month Indirect Owner-
Year) (A) or (I) ship
Code V Amount (D) Price (Instr. 3 (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4)
and 4)
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Class A Common Stock 11/29/2000 A 1,000,000 A $11.1633 D
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President,
813,378 I Garofalo
Foundation,
Inc.
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82,344,846(1) D
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(1) In addition, as reported on Table II of this Form 4, Mr. Garofalo beneficially owns directly options to purchase 346,588 shares
of the company's Class A common stock at an exercise price of $0.1231 per share and beneficially owns indirectly through The Stephen
A. Garofalo 1999 Annuity Trust No. 1 and The Stephen A. Garofalo 1999 Annuity Trust No. 2 options to purchase 5,737,412 shares of
the company's Class A common stock at an exercise price of $0.1231 per share.
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly.
*If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see instruction 4(b)(v). (Over)
SEC 1474 (3-99)
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POTENTIAL PERSONS WHO ARE TO RESPOND TO THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED
IN THIS FORM ARE NOT REQUIRED TO RESPOND UNLESS THE FORM DISPLAYS A CURRENTLY
VALID OMB CONTROL NUMBER.
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Conver- 3. Trans- 4. Transac- 5. Number of Deriv- 6. Date Exer-
(Instr. 3) sion or action tion Code ative Securities Ac- cisable and Ex-
Exercise Date (Instr. 8) quired (A) or Dis- piration Date
Price of (Month/ posed of (D) (Month/Day/
Deriv- Day/ (Instr. 3, 4, and 5) Year)
ative Year)
Security
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Date Expira-
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Code V (A) (D) cisable Date
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Option to Buy
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7. Title and Amount of Under- 8. Price 9. Number 10. Owner- 11. Nature
lying Securities of of Deriv- ship of In-
(Instr. 3 and 4) Deriv- ative Form direct
ative Securi- of De- Bene-
Secur- ties rivative ficial
ity Bene- Secu- Own-
(Instr. ficially rity: ership
5) Owned Direct (Instr. 4)
at End (D) or
Amount or of Indi-
Title Number of Month rect (I)
Shares (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4)
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346,588 D
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Trustee of
5,737,412 I Trust No. 1 and
Trust No. 2
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Explanation of Responses:
/s/ Stephen A. Garofalo December 7, 2000
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**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute **Signature of Reporting Person Date
Federal Criminal Violations. SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space is insufficient, SEE Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained
in this form are not require to respond unless the form displays a currently
valid omb control number.
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