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...“What happened in Bush vs Gore, we’re hearing an echo of it now in Pennsylvania,” said Matthew Seligman, a Supreme Court litigator and lecturer at Harvard Law School....
...Kavanaugh had faced accusations of sexual assault from a former high-school classmate, sparking a bitter partisan fight, before his eventual appointment....
...The appointment of Mr Kavanaugh to fill a seat leaves the US Supreme Court with five conservatives to four liberals, shifting the court rightward....
...Mr Kavanaugh had previously attracted investment from Elliott Associates, the New York hedge fund run by Paul Singer, and Ron Burkle, the supermarket magnate and Democratic donor....
...He appointed Matthew Whitaker, Mr Sessions’ former chief of staff, to take over the post....
...The Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has shaken off accusations of sexual harassment from a colleague and will debut his new drama series next week....
...Mr Kavanaugh raised hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in movie studio production slates....
...Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity’s chief executive, said the joint venture would be a “bridge between Hollywood and Bollywood”, adding that it would “remake a number of our movies for the Indian market”....
...The most famous examples are a group of Queen Anne-style houses on Steiner Street next to Alamo Square, built in the 1890s by Matthew Kavanaugh and painted in soft pastels....
...However, until recently it was a large equity investor in Relativity Media, a Hollywood production and financing company founded by chief executive Ryan Kavanaugh, an innovative film producer and financier...
...Matthew Garrahan is the FT’s Los Angeles correspondent. To comment on this article, please e-mail magazineletters@ft.com...
...“It’s not dead by any means,” says Ryan Kavanaugh, who has arranged slate deals through his Relativity Media group....
...Since then the company, which is owned by Texas Pacific Group and Providence Equity Partners, has also held negotiations with Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media group about a co-financing deal for several...
...The latest victim appears to be Hollywood and its line-up of big budget movies, reports the FT’s Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles....
...New companies created to raise capital for film slate financing have sprung up, such as Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media, which raised more than $1bn for Universal Studios and Sony Pictures through its...
...Ryan Kavanaugh’s two Gun Hill Road funds have raised over $1bn for the studios. Not all hedge fund investments in Hollywood have been successful, though....
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