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Thursday, August 5, 2010
More Billionaires Sign the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge
Apparently, it’s hard to turn down America’s richest men when they ask for money.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett announced today that 40 signers, including at least 30 billionaires and other wealthy families, had officially made the Giving Pledge–a promise to give away more than half their fortunes.
Many of the names already were known, from Eli and Edythe Broad and Michael Bloomberg to Pierre and Pam Omidyar and Paul Allen. But the list also includes some notable new ones, especially from the world of finance: New York financier Ronald O. Perelman; Citigroup founder Sandy Weill and wife Joan; hedge-funders Julian Robertson Jr. and Jim Simons; and private-equity honcho David Rubenstein.
The technology sector also is well represented, by venture capitalist John Doerr and wife Anne; Pierre Omidyar and wife Pam; and Jeff Skoll.
The list includes a few old-money (or at least older-money) names: Barron Hilton and David Rockefeller. Still, almost all are self-made billionaires or near-billionaires.
The turnout is impressive, especially since the Gates-Buffett-sponsored pledge was just announced a month and a half ago.
Since some of the names already planned to give away half their fortune, the hard part will be persuading additional signers in the months to come. The Gates Foundation plans to hold small dinners in coming months in which signers will try to persuade potential givers to give their John Hancocks.
Some people may write off the pledge as a gimmick aimed at simply improving the PR of the super-rich, which could certainly use some improving. But the list could become a strong financial force for philanthropy, if for no other reason than peer pressure, publicity and the inspiring example of others.
America’s rich have been searching for new status symbols in the wake of the Great Recession. Yachts, private jets, seaside mansions are so 2007. But being wealthy enough and generous enough to get on the Giving Pledge list may quickly become the ultimate badge of status–both in the U.S. and abroad.
Do you think the pledge has been effective at raising additional charity dollars?
The Bay Series
Ok well this trailer has me wanting more. Especially with a star studded cast of daytimes hottest soap stars. (Mary Beth Evans, Tristan Rogers, Dylan Bruce, Taylor Stanley, Martha Madison, Gavin Houston, Sandra Dee Robinson, John Callahan, Tanisha Lynn, Kristos Andrews, Jade Harlow, Lilly Melgar, Daphne Bloomer, Réal Andrews, Derrell Whitt, and Camden Toy)
Carol Burnett head over to Glee
Comedy legend Carol Burnett has been tapped to play Sue Sylvester’s Nazi-hunting mother on Glee, sources confirm to me exclusively.
I’ll give you a moment to process the sheer brilliance of that casting before continuing…
Sue referenced her adventurous parents in an episode of the Fox phenom last season. Details of Mama Sylvester’s arrival are being kept under wraps, but I’m told Sue’s father will not be accompanying her.
The six-time Emmy-winning Burnett has made only a handful of TV appearances in recent years, most notably playing Bree’s evil stepmother on Desperate Housewives in 2006 and a Rockette-turned-strip-club owner on Law & Order: SVU (for which she was nominated for an Emmy) in 2009.
Burnett’s episode is slated to air in October or November.
Thoughts? Is this the most genius piece of stunt casting maybe ever? Hit the comments!
Caroline Giuliani, daughter of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, busted in alleged shoplift attempt
The Ivy League daughter of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was busted Wednesday for shoplifting at an upper East Side beauty store, cops said.
Harvard senior Caroline Giuliani was caught at about 3:30 p.m stealing $150 worth of cosmetics from Sephora on E. 86th St. and Lexington Ave., sources said.
"She was caught red-handed. She knew it, and didn't act out," a police source said.
The 20-year-old daughter of New York's toughest-talking law-and-order mayor was arrested for misdemeanor petty larceny and hauled out of the store in handcuffs.
She was taken to the 19th Precinct stationhouse and issued a desk appearance ticket that requires her to return to court on Aug. 31.
"She kept her head low and you could see her eyes were tearing up," a source said of her wait at the stationhouse.
Once store employees learned who the suspect's father was, they told cops they didn't want to press charges.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/08/04/2010-08-04_caroline_giuliani_daughter_of_former_nyc_mayor_rudy_giuliani_busted_in_alleged_s.html#ixzz0vjfOZFBk
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