Jeffrey Epstein Was Buddies With Leon Black

Posted 08/21/08 in Daily Intel: White Men With Money

The billionaire perv is found to have had connections to the Apollo Management founder, and perhaps more disturbingly, to the Children’s Museum.

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Katie Couric: ‘America Is Giving Me the Hillary Clinton Treatment’

Posted 07/22/08 in Daily Intel: Company Town

The CBS anchor identifies with the former presidential candidate. Plus, why it's not looking good for Wall Street bonuses, or the doorman who won $5 million on a scratch ticket a couple of months ago, and more, in our daily rundown of New York media, finance, real-estate, and law news.

Tags: atlantic city, barack obama, carroll gardens, david paterson, fannie mae, freddie mac, haaretz, harvey weinstein, henry paulson, hillary clinton, katie couric, labaton sucharow, leon black, ryan lizza, sexism, the weinstein company

There Goes the Schneighborhood

Posted 04/08/08 in Daily Intel: Company Town

Richard Gere has put his apartment in Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi on the market, private-equity execs come down to earth, Sam Zell continues to be wacky, and Jeff Zucker and Harvey Weinstein fight like a couple of queens over 'Project Runway' in our daily roundup of real-estate, finance, media and law news.

Tags: bono, cnn, harvey weinstein, jackie robinson, jeff zucker, john mack, julian schnabel, leon black, linens n things, mrogan stanley, nbc, palazzo chupi, project runway, richard gere, sam zell, shea stadium, wienstien company, william jb brady

64 New Yorkers Make ‘Forbes’ 400

Posted 09/21/07 in Daily Intel: In Other News

You haven't, by any chance, been feeling rich lately, have you? Sort of feeling a little bit smug that the burst of the real-estate bubble won't splatter all over you? At least a little bit excited that in November, your every-other-Friday paycheck will come three times instead of twice? Well, just in time for all that, Forbes has released its annual list of the 400 richest people in America. And guess what? Sixty-four of them are New Yorkers! The top 100 billionaires, in fact, include household (okay, apartment-hold) names like shareholder activist Carl Icahn, Revlon CEO Ron Perelman, designer Ralph Lauren, Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse … oh yeah, and Mayor Bloomberg, who at $11.5 billion is America's 25th richest man. According to Forbes, he more than doubled his wealth from last year, which was enough to leapfrog over rival media magnate Rupert Murdoch in the ranks.

Tags: bruce kovner, carl icahn, david koch, henry kravis, ira rennert, joan tisch, leon black, leonard blavatnik, leonard stern, mayor bloomberg, paul milstein, ralph lauren, ron perelman, rupert murdoch, si newhouse, stephen ross, stephen schwarzman