"Carlos Slim attended an event hosted by Louise Blouin in New York in September 2011, the Blouin Creative Leadership Summit, where he received an award. "
"A wealthy businesswoman who owns $200 million in real estate is racking up legal proceedings, notably in the context of an offer to purchase one of the most expensive houses in Quebec...
The lawsuits suggest a princely lifestyle for the woman who made her fortune in particular with her shares in Trader Classified Media (the owner of Auto Hebdo), which she liquidated in 2005
WHO IS LOUISE BLOUIN? ..
She has been in the entourage of Prince Andrew & Bill Clinton..
Her name has appeared in the Panama Papers..
[She reminds me of the black sweater club 🤔👇]
"She made her fortune following the creation w her second husband John MacBain, of the classifieds company “Trader Classified Media”. During her divorce in 2000, her former husband gave her $200 million representing the value of her shares in the company" tvanouvelles.ca/2016/04/09/la-…
2017 "John McCall MacBain O.C. was presented with the Sheldon Medal yesterday for his visionary support for the University of Oxford "
The Rt Hon Lord Chris Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, presented the silver medal
"Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, added: ‘We see the evidence of this generosity all around the University. It has never been more important for universities to have the support of philanthropists.’ "
☝️Re Professor Louise Richardson
"Her leadership at the University of Oxford played an important role in the successful development of a vaccine to combat Covid-19 " ft.com/content/c833d2…
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FT : "In the early stage of vaccine development, for example, scientists at Oxford’s Jenner Institute needed £1m immediately to manufacture trial doses. There was no time to seek the money from external sources so Richardson agreed to provide it from central university funds...
Jul. 2020
"A generous gift of £3.5 million from Lakshmi Mittal and his family has secured the future of a critical professorship in vaccinology at the University. The post, which is currently held by Professor Adrian Hill,.. development.ox.ac.uk/news/future-of…
will be known as the Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology in recognition of this support." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_M…
Lakshmi Mittal is also a member of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Clinic
In 2002, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price obtained a letter written by Tony Blair to the Romanian Government in support of Mittal's LNM Group steel company, which was in the process of bidding to buy Romania's state-owned industry..
"In 2007, it was announced that the Mittal family had purchased a 20 per cent shareholding in Queens Park Rangers football club joining Flavio Briatore and Mittal's friend Bernie Ecclestone"
As part of the investment Mittal's son-in-law, Amit Bhatia, took a place on the board of directors. The combined investment in the struggling club sparked suggestions that Mittal might be looking to join the growing ranks of wealthy individuals investing heavily in
English football and emulating similar benefactors such as Roman Abramovich
"On 19 February 2010 , Briatore resigned as QPR chairman, and sold further shares in the club to Ecclestone, making Ecclestone the single largest shareholder."
"Isha Ambani’s wedding: Hillary Clinton to Lakshmi Mittal, a list of global leaders who are attending
The Clintons and the Ambanis have an association that goes back more than 18 years and have met several times both in India and abroad, according to Indian media reports. "
" Former head of advertising giant WPP, Martin Sorrell, BP Group CEO Bob Dudley, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch and Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih are also invited"
"Mittal's residence at 18–19 Kensington Palace Gardens—which was purchased from Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone in 2004 for £67 million (US$128 million) ...."
July 2023
"Pfizer, AstraZeneca and others ask US Supreme Court to bar Iraq terrorism funding claims"
"Attorneys for the companies contend in their petition that a Supreme Court ruling in May shielding Twitter from liability under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act should bar the service members' allegations." 🤔 reuters.com/legal/governme…
"That ruling said aiding-and-abetting liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act, the same law at issue in the Iraq terror case, requires that a defendant "consciously and culpably" participated in a terror act to help it succeed." reuters.com/legal/us-supre…
A lawsuit against some of the biggest names in the industry — including GE Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Roche Holdings — claims that the companies regularly paid kickbacks to officials in Iraq’s Ministry of Health.
May 2024
Reuters : "White House backs pharma companies in Supreme Court terror funding case" reuters.com/legal/governme…
Hundreds of American service members and civilians who said they were harmed in Iraq between 2005 and 2011 filed the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court in 2017."..
"Bondi needs to answer very specific questions NOW.
ONE: Did you earn $203,738 in 2024 from the law firm Panza, Maurer & Maynard, where you served as “Of Counsel” to Pfizer? You did, right?" opensecrets.org/orgs/panza-mau…
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"SIX: Now let’s get to the issue of conflict of interest. There is a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Brook Jackson, who used to work for Ventavia Research Group, which ran clinical trials for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine." 🤔
"Fergie is reunited with the American former lover she once spied on through a restaurant window after he married another woman and broke her heart" dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…
Daily Mail
"Fergie, 57, met Steve in 1989 at Houston Grand Opera’s British Opera Festival, when she was already pregnant with her second child Princess Eugenie.
Daily Mail, 2017
"Bryan, who was made bankrupt in 1996 after failing to pay debts of £60,000 to creditors — including Fergie's sister, Jane, the photos of whose second wedding he had sold to Hello!"🤔