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• It's Expensive Being Rupert Murdoch

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Blackstone Group, China, Cravath Swaine Amp Moore, Dow Jones, Hendrik Hertzberg, Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Milberg Weiss, Morgan Stanley, News Corp, Oscar De La Renta, Philanthropy, Rupert Murdoch, Skadden Arps, Steve Schwarzman, The Nation, The New Yorker

  MEDIA • Did Dow Jones cost Rupert Murdoch an extra $1 billion just because he’s Rupert Murdoch? [Slate] • Rik Hertzberg to blog for The New Yorker. From YearlyKos. And without fact-checking. [

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• Bear Stearns Execs Cashed Out Before Stock Dropped

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Barneys, Bear Stearns, Blackstone Group, Dow Jones, Fashion, Finance, James Cayne, Law, Media, Rupert Murdoch

  via DealBook/NYT] • Blackstone raised $21.7 billion for its latest private-equity fund. Apparently drumming up the last $6 billion was pretty tough. Cue the violins! [Deal Journal/WSJ] FASHION • Karen Elson (a.k.a. Mrs. Jack White) gave birth to a baby boy, named Henry Lee White. [British Vogue] • Uniqlo's parent company

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• When All Fails, What Else? A Country Song.

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Blackstone Group, Chuck Schumer, Don Imus, Frank Bruni, Jeffrey Chodorow, Macy Gray

  not just big firms like Blackstone. How Democratic. [Reuters via DealBook/NYT] MEDIA • Now that Kent Brownridge and Quadrangle finally own Felix Dennis's old lad-mag empire, they've folded Stuff into Maxim, cut a third of the staff, and sent most editors with British passports packing. [NYT, Gawker] • Ex-Portfolio deputy Jim

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• And Trump's $33 M. Mystery Buyer Is... Blackstone's Chinh Chu

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, The Blackstone Group Lp

  Time Listings, the buyer is Blackstone senior vice president Chu Chinh, a maestro of the corporate equity biz. He'll have the tower's 89th floor to himself, plus half of the 90th. Three years ago, Mr. Chu had half an hour to save Blackstone's two-year takeover of a chemical maker called Celanese. It took a few sweaty phone calls for

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• Barack Obama says government must hold contractors accountable

  Published: October 4, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Society, Barack Obama, Blackstone Group, Bush Administration

  Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Wednesday said the Bush administration should do more to crack down on lawbreaking American contractors working in Iraq.

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• Private- Equity Tax Hike Falters

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Private, Equity, Tax, Hike, Falters, Harry Reid, Charles Rangel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Amp Feld Llp, Patton Boggs Llp, The Blackstone Group Lp, Capitol Hill, Jim Manley, Bloomberg Lp, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, The Carlyle Group Llc, Carol Guthrie, David M Rube

  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has told private-equity firms in recent weeks that a tax-hike proposal they have spent millions of dollars to defeat will not get through the Senate this year, according to executives and lobbyists.

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• Private- Equity Tax Hike Falters

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Private, Equity, Tax, Hike, Falters, Harry Reid, Charles Rangel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Amp Feld Llp, Patton Boggs Llp, The Blackstone Group Lp, Capitol Hill, Jim Manley, Bloomberg Lp, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, The Carlyle Group Llc, Carol Guthrie, David M Rube

  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has told private-equity firms in recent weeks that a tax-hike proposal they have spent millions of dollars to defeat will not get through the Senate this year, according to executives and lobbyists.

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• Buyout Firms to Avoid a Tax Hike

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Buyout, Firms, Avoid, Tax, Hike, Harry Reid, Charles Rangel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Amp Feld Llp, Patton Boggs Llp, The Blackstone Group Lp, Capitol Hill, Jim Manley, Bloomberg Lp, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, The Carlyle Group Llc, Carol Guthrie, David M Ruben

  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has told private-equity firms in recent weeks that a tax-hike proposal they have spent millions of dollars to defeat will not get through the Senate this year, according to executives and lobbyists.

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• Rupert Murdoch and the ‘Journal’ Eye Washington

  Published: October 10, 2007, 1:32 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Agyness Deyn, Blackstone Group, Irina Lazareanu, Jeff Zucker, John Mccain, Kanye West, Lapo Elkann, Lily Cole, Milberg Weiss, Oxygen, Rupert Murdoch, Sidley Austin, Wall Street Journal

  already went public with Blackstone's IPO, and with more and more publicity may soon cease being an alternative investment — "more soccer mom than punk rocker." [Deal Journal/WSJ] • Wall Street sure would love a McCain presidency. Last night at the debates the Arizona maverick said, "I'm glad whenever they cut interest rates, I

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• ABC, CBS and NBC Hail 'Sweet Vindication' for Al Gore

  Published: October 12, 2007, 9:45 pm

  Tags: Global Warming, Al Gore, Anne Thompson, Brian Williams, David Wright, John Blackstone, Katie Couric, An Inconvenient Truth, Cbs Evening News, Nbc Nightly News, World News

  the presidential race. John Blackstone reports on Al Gore, the Nobel Laureate. JOHN BLACKSTONE: Arriving at a meeting in Silicon Valley today, Al Gore got a winner's welcome- AL GORE: I'll be back out in just a moment, okay? BLACKSTONE: -with well wishers and a crush of cameras. He'd been up for much of the night. It was 2:00 in the morning

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• CBS Blames Warming, But Also Fuel from Putting Out All Fires

  Published: October 25, 2007, 2:44 am

  Tags: Global Warming, Wildfires, John Blackstone, Katie Couric, Cbs Evening News

  today than ever, and John Blackstone reports, man may be at least partly to blame for that. Blackstone first went to global warming: Fire ecologist Tom Swetnam has a collection of tree rings that reveals thousands of years of climate history. He told Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes that global warming means a longer fire season. Then,

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• Is Kate Beckinsale Too Hot to Play Judy Miller?

  Published: October 25, 2007, 1:07 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Blackstone Group, Joanne Lipman, Judith Miller, Kate Beckinsale, Matt Drudge, Memphis, Penn Station, Portfolio, Red Sox, Stan O Neal, Steve Schwarzman, Valerie Plame, Warren Buffet

  every dollar he can out of Blackstone: The firm pays him upwards of $1 million a year to reimburse costs for his own private jet. [DealBook/NYT] LAW • Peter Barta, the former Legal Aid Society lawyer and Peeping Tom, pleaded guilty to hiding a camera in a clock to spy on undressing female employees. [AP via Law.com] • Which

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• A Good Guy for Hilton

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Good, Guy, For, Hilton, Richard Marriott, The Blackstone Group Lp, Arlington, Host Hotels Amp Resorts Inc, Arne Sorenson, Jon Gray, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Oliver T Carr Co, Starwood Hotels Amp Resorts Worldwide Inc, Willard Hotel, Asia, Bailey Capital, Beverly Hill

  Chris Nassetta may not be the most renowned chief executive in the Washington area -- in fact, if you're not in the hotel business, you've probably never heard of him.

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• U.S. Buyout Kings Bet on China

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Buyout, Kings, Bet, China, United States, China National Chemical Corporation, The Carlyle Group Llc, Hong Kong, Texas, The Blackstone Group Lp, China Pacific Life Insurance, Dealogic Holdings Plc, Ibm Corporation, Colin Blaydon, David M Rubenstein, Michael Prall

  Some of the biggest and most powerful dealmakers in the United States have found a way to keep the buyout boom going: by aggressively pushing into China.

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• U.S. Buyout Kings Bet on China

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Buyout, Kings, Bet, China, United States, China National Chemical Corporation, The Carlyle Group Llc, Hong Kong, Texas, The Blackstone Group Lp, China Pacific Life Insurance, Dealogic Holdings Plc, Ibm Corporation, Colin Blaydon, David M Rubenstein, Michael Prall

  Some of the biggest and most powerful dealmakers in the United States have found a way to keep the buyout boom going: by aggressively pushing into China.

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