Hints and tips:
...Wall Street megadonors including Paul Singer and Ken Griffin are bankrolling Nikki Haley SFA Fund, a super Pac supporting Nikki Haley, raised $69mn last year, and burnt through all but $3mn of it....
...Billionaire donors such as Ken Griffin and Harold Hamm showered cash on anti-Trump candidates. But there was no strategy or co-ordination of their efforts....
...$2mn to a pro-Chris Christie group....
...Marc Filippino So are people like Ken Griffin? He’s the founder of the hedge fund Citadel....
...Chris Christie ends his campaign: The decision by the former New Jersey governor is expected to consolidate support for Nikki Haley. 3....
...Ramaswamy and Stephen Schwarzman spent $2mn on a pro-Chris Christie super Pac....
...Several big GOP donors — from billionaire hedge fund bosses such as Paul Singer and Ken Griffin, to Miriam Adelson, the wife of the late casino emperor Sheldon Adelson — are now on the sidelines....
...Christie, for instance, only had $7mn in cash on hand at the end of June, while Trump’s former vice-president Mike Pence had just $2.9mn....
...to impress Griffin’ ahead of the 2024 election....
...The price is a record for a book, though a printed copy of the US Constitution sold for $43.2mn with fees to Citadel founder Ken Griffin in 2021....
...The private sale of “Orange Marilyn” in 2017 to Ken Griffin, founder of the hedge fund group Citadel, for more than $200mn makes Christie’s estimate look rational, insofar as anything is rational about the...
...included Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lopez, Natalie Portman and Kendall Jenner — the Kardashians TV star bought a work by the American light and space artist James Turrell (through Pace Gallery and Kayne Griffin...
...Christie’s runs its auction just once a year and plans to open an edition of the Outsider Art Fair in Basel fell through this year....
...Kenneth Griffin: a billionaire hedge fund manager said to have an insatiable appetite for historic and expensive art....
...Mr Rubio has received $5m from Paul Singer, the hedge fund manager, and Kenneth Griffin, founder of Citadel. Steve Cohen, founder of SAC Capital, and his family gave $2m to Mr Christie....
...Mr Griffin of hedge fund Citadel has given $100,000 each to super-Pacs supporting Mr Bush and Mr Rubio....
...He implies that the buyer is Ken Griffin, whose Citadel hedge fund has its headquarters in Chicago....
...In 2014, Ruscha’s 1963 painting “Smash” sold at Christie’s in New York for a record $30.4m to his dealer Larry Gagosian. “It seems like the art world is flush,” he says....
...When his large sunset-coloured 1961 canvas “Orange, Red, Yellow” sold at Christie’s New York in 2012 for $86.9m (£53.8m), it set the price record for any work of contemporary art....
...Paul Griffin of Brighton’s PopChoc Prints also describes much of the work on view as “traditional”....
...Griffin admits that sometimes enthusiasm can go too far. At Christie’s in 1989 he paid £4,180 for a Clarice plate in Applique Windmill. He says: “It was competitive bidding and I got carried away....
...Sotheby’s has largely withdrawn from selling pop memorabilia, although Christie’s South Kensington and Bonhams continue to hold two sales a year....
...Jasper Johns $80m Last year Kenneth Griffin, a Chicago hedge-fund billionaire, acquired Jasper Johns’ “False Start” from David Geffen, the movie mogul and founder of DreamWorks, for $80m, putting the artist...
...Ken Griffin, who founded Chicago’s $12bn Citadel hedge fund, has emerged as a strong buyer of contemporary art....
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