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Jan 07 2024
News
Billionaire Bill Ackman Flip-Flops on Plagiarism After Wife Gets Caught
Bill Ackman has toned down his vitriol toward former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism after Business Insider reported on Friday that his wife, Neri Oxman, copied portions of Wikipedia articles and scholarly documents in her doctoral dissertation at MIT. In a long-winded, 5,139-word post on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday night, Ackman wrote that it is “a near certainty that
Daily BeastApr 06 2023
News
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
In late June 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.
If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht
ProPublicaJan 08 2024
News
Tiger Woods No Longer A Nike Athlete—Ends Deal That Helped Mint Him A Billionaire
Tiger Woods’ endorsement deal with Nike is over, the legendary golfer announced on social media Monday, capping the partnership which was among the most famous—and lucrative—between an athlete and an apparel brand ever. Woods, who had endorsed Nike since joining the professional ranks in 1996, was previously under a reported 10-year contract inked in 2013. Nike acknowledged the parting of ways
ForbesFeb 20 2024
Perspectives Blog
As Billionaire George Soros Takes Control of 235 Radio Stations, AllSides Offers Path to Protect Media Integrity: Give Your Input
Billionaire George Soros just bought a controlling stake in 235 U.S. radio stations ahead of the 2024 elections.
News media integrity is under threat from partisan billionaires on both sides — but AllSides can tell you which outlets are biased.
Take our survey below to submit a radio station for bias review.
Any partisan manipulation of the news — from the left or
AllSides StaffNov 10 2023
News
Billionaires discuss $50 million anti-Hamas media blitz
Wall Street and Hollywood billionaires have discussed in recent weeks a plan to spend as much as $50 million on a media campaign to “define Hamas to the American people as a terrorist organization.”
Real-estate billionaire Barry Sternlicht launched the campaign in the days after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, and in an email viewed by Semafor, sought $1 million donations each from dozens
SemaforOct 13 2023
News
Learning about Rural Higher Education in ‘Billionaire Wilderness’
Last week, Open Campus and USA Today published a tale of two rural Teton Counties — one in Idaho, another in Wyoming — separated by a treacherous mountain pass and a staggering economic divide.
No county in America has an average per-capita income that comes close to Teton County, Wyoming — it’s $318,297, far more than the roughly $35,000 that’s the average in Teton County, Idaho.
The Daily YonderJan 31 2024
News
Fenway Sports Group Lands $3 Billion Deal With PGA Tour—Boosting Billionaire John Henry’s Sports Empire
Billionaire John Henry expanded his booming sports portfolio Wednesday when a consortium led by his Fenway Sports Group—the owner of the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Penguins and Premier League club Liverpool—struck a $3 billion partnership with the PGA Tour, a major deal that gives the consortium a minority share in a new PGA company and allows pro golfers to hold ownership stakes. The
ForbesNov 20 2022
Opinion
The Case for Space Billionaires
Statistically, Americans love space. Anecdotally, they hate it when billionaires go there. Majorities of all parties, genders, and geographies tell pollsters they support U.S. missions to the moon and Mars, and three-quarters say that the effort to land the first men on the moon was worth it. But last year, when the big three spacefaring billionaires—Virgin's Richard Branson, Amazon's Jeff
ReasonJan 04 2024
News
Billionaire Harvard donor demands entire Harvard board resign after Claudine Gay's ouster
(THE POST MILLENNIAL) – Wall Street billionaire Bill Ackman, a Harvard grad and major donor, has demanded that the entire Harvard Corporation, including chairman of that board Penny Pritzker, resign from their posts. This comes after Claudine Gay resigned over allegations of antisemitism and plagiarism. "The Board Chair, Penny Pritzker, should resign along with the other members of the board
WNDJan 03 2024
News
New Albany billionaire Leslie H. Wexner on Jeffrey Epstein list released by court order
Jeffrey Epstein was a longtime financial adviser and business partner with New Albany billionaire Leslie H. Wexner, founder of L Brands, a onetime retail empire that included Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works and other famous brands. So it was no surprise that Wexner's name appeared on a list of names of Epstein associates that were redacted from a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by Virginia
The Columbus Dispatch