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...Křetínský has now been employing a similar strategy across unloved media, retail and infrastructure assets, including a winning offer to bail out the debt-laden French food retailer Casino and talks to buy...
...“Every time there is a big bid in France, whether it is Editis or Casino, he’s there,” said one French investor. “He bought his way into the establishment and it’s working.”...
...Private equity: Hollywood’s new power brokers? Hollywood is a place with good weather and better parties, where billionaires come to spend money on vanity projects....
...But the Hollywood impresario has pulled another ace from his sleeve, doubling down on the booming sports betting market with a $1.2bn acquisition of OpenBet, ratcheting up its stake in one of the most lucrative...
...A degree of toxicity, runs the argument, is as essential a part of the moviemaking process as the catering truck....
...The company behind Las Vegas’s Caesars Palace, Harrah’s and Planet Hollywood was about to close a $17bn, debt-laden sale to Eldorado Resorts....
...The Pope, however, was less than pleased when he discovered the Holy See had gone to Hollywood, and last year “the Holy Father gave instructions to liquidate the fund”....
...Casinos last year....
...of the Reagan White House, Dallas billionaires and even a New York developer and casino owner turned reality television star named Donald Trump, 30 years before he reached the White House....
...Much like his list of potential cabinet nominees, whose shuffles in and out of Trump Tower resemble a Hollywood red carpet, the answer is inside the president-elect’s head....
...times past, including a flurry of 1930s Hollywood glitterati: Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford....
...(Bloomberg) Hollywood sweeps into Saudi Arabia Moviegoers in the Islamic kingdom on Wednesday will sit for a screening of Walt Disney’s Black Panther, the first showing of a Hollywood film in Saudi Arabia...
...Planet Hollywood $515m Shortfall in valuation of the Las Vegas Planet Hollywood/Baltimore JV sold in October 2013 Linq/Octavius $249m Shortfall in valuation for the Linq and Octavius buildings in Las...
...Guggenheim, whose clients range from the New York police pension fund and regional insurance companies to jet-setting billionaires like casino tycoon Frank Fertitta, has faced months of upheaval due to an...
...During the spree, on July 15, authorities allege, Mr Low withdrew more than $1m in cash and casino chips to gamble with Mr Aziz, Mr McFarland and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, star of The Wolf of Wall Street....
...“I met every network in Hollywood and New York, ABC, NBC, CBS — I would have put this thing on the Food Network if they would have put it on.”...
...Yet it was Las Vegas that was most seduced by his vision, particularly casino magnate Steve Wynn....
...Caesars Acquisition also holds properties including Planet Hollywood and the newly renovated Quad Hotel in Las Vegas, now rebranded as the Linq Hotel....
...Hollywood veteran Kevin Spacey....
...As in casinos, these people are known in the mobile games business as “whales”, and they are both lucrative and a concern for many in the industry....
...Mitt Romney will be rounding up donors in the traditionally Democratic strongholds of Hollywood and Silicon Valley this week, in an attempt to maintain his fundraising momentum and lay the groundwork for...
...1980s Hollywood....
...The owner of Las Vegas casinos including Caesars Palace, the Flamingo and Planet Hollywood pointed to positive trends in the business and leisure travel market in a regulatory filing....
...MMC was founded by Mr Penske, whose father Roger Penske controls a sprawling auto empire that includes the Penske racing team and the Penske truck and leasing company....
...His Area club and venues such as Hyde and Foxtail attracted Hollywood types like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and lured eager bar-goers back to the heart of the city....
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