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22 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
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1/ re: Andre Balazs (see next tweet...)
2/ My interpretation of WSJ article⤵️ is different, though.
The property Shane Smith offered to buy with "a blank check" was "Locusts-on-Hudson, a 76-acre estate just outside Rhinebeck where he and his wife got married in 2009," not Santa Monica.
Thread⤵️:
3/ Apparently Balazs dated Katherine Keating, daughter of former Australia Prime Minister (1991-96) Paul Keating. @mopeng see thread⤵️h/t @CatsChocolates. (more...)
3/ "After college, [Shane] Smith traveled to Budapest🇭🇺, where he taught at a Berlitz language school." h/t
@clearing_fog (more...)
Sep 6, 2016:
wsj.com/articles/l-a-v…
4/ Answer to Zev's question⤵️, Shane Smith taught at Berlitz language school sometime in the 1990s. Smith was 46 when Sep 6, 2016 article was published, so he likely graduated from college in 1992. /end

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