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At the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show, Katy Perry sang "I Kissed a Girl" with a man, Lenny Kravitz, which freed her from being criticized as a straight woman for singing about kissing a girl.

After decades of lobbying, Mitchel Libman convinced Representative Robert Wexler to

propose the "Leonard Kravitz Jewish War Veterans Act of 2001".

Private Kravitz was the younger brother of filmmaker and TV producer Sy Kravitz and uncle of musician Lenny Kravitz.

Robert Ira Wexler (born January 2, 1961) is an American politician and lawyer from Florida. He is

the president of the Washington-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace.

The Center was established in 1989 by U.S. Congressman Wayne Owens (D-Utah) and then-Slim Fast Foods Chairman S. Daniel Abraham.

S. Daniel Abraham was born on August 15, 1924, the son of

Stella K. and Dr. Samuel Abraham. He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Long Beach, New York. His father was a Zionist and follower of Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

Benzion Netanyahu was an editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia and assistant to Benjamin Azkin, Ze'ev Jabotinsky's personal

secretary.

Abraham founded Thompson Medical, which introduced the Slim-Fast line of diet products in the late 1970s.

Abraham is a long-time donor to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation.

In March 2015, former Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Clinton

administration, Donna Shalala, was selected to run the Clinton Foundation.

In 2016, Reuters reported that the Clinton Foundation suspected that it had been the target of a cyber security breach. As a consequence of the suspected cyber security breach, Clinton Foundation

officials retained a security firm, FireEye, to evaluate its data systems. The cyber security breach has been described as sharing similarities with cyberattacks that targeted other institutions, such as the Democratic National Committee.

FireEye was founded in 2004 by

Ashar Aziz, a former Sun Microsystems engineer.

Ashar Aziz is a member of the board of governors of Namal Institute, founded by Imran Khan.

On 16 May 1995, Imran Khan married Jemima Goldsmith, in a two-minute ceremony conducted in Urdu in Paris.

Jemima Goldsmith was a close

friend of Diana, Princess of Wales, who visited her in Lahore in 1996.

Following her divorce in 2004, Jemima returned to London and later became involved in a romantic relationship with Hugh Grant.

In September 2013, The Daily Telegraph reported that Jemima was dating British

activist and actor Russell Brand. In September 2014, she and Brand separated.

Russell Brand first met American singer Katy Perry in mid-2009 when she filmed a cameo for his film Get Him to the Greek, although the cameo was cut from the film. They began dating after meeting again

at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in September. The two became engaged on New Year's Eve 2009 during a holiday in India, and married there on 23 October 2010 in a Hindu ceremony, near the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan.

In October 2011, Brand and Perry announced via

Twitter that they had switched to a vegan diet.

In 2012, Russell Brand briefly dated singer Geri Halliwell. From 2013 to 2014, Brand was in a relationship with Jemima Goldsmith (formerly known as Jemima Khan), a daughter of financier James Goldsmith.

The Goldschmidts,

neighbours and rivals of the Rothschild family, were a wealthy, Frankfurt-based, Jewish family that had been influential in international merchant banking since the 16th century. James's great-grandfather was Benedikt Hayum Goldschmidt, founder of the B.H. Goldschmidt bank and

consul to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. James's grandfather was Adolphe Benedict Goldschmidt (1838–1918), a multi-millionaire who moved to London in 1895.

While Maximilian, the later Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, moved to Berlin, Adolphe went first to Paris and then to

London, where he bought a large house in Mayfair. He also bought a 2,500 acre country estate in Cavenham, Suffolk. Adolphe and his wife Alice became collectors of art. They acquired many expensive pieces including the furniture of Louis XV and Louis XVI.
Adolphe did not want to

go back into banking, but he became a sleeping partner in London merchant bank Helbert, Wagg & Co. (estab. 1848, acquired by Schroders in 1962) and invested in bonds. He also held interests in the Central Mining Investment Corporation, which controlled mines in South Africa and

had interests in the De Beers diamond and oil business.

The British South Africa Company was founded in 1889 by Royal Charter. On the initiative of Anglo American Corporation it merged in 1965 with The Central Mining & Investment Corporation and The Consolidated Mines Selection

Company to form Charter Consolidated.

Charter International plc was a large British engineering business based in London. It was acquired by Colfax Corporation in January 2012.

Enovis was founded by brothers Mitchell and Steven Rales as the Colfax Corporation in 1995.

Amaryllis Fox was born Amaryllis Damerell Thornber in New York City. Her mother, Lalage Damerell, is an English retired actress. Her father was an economist. Fox's mother has since married billionaire businessman Steven Rales.

Fox became one of the youngest female officers in

the CIA at the age of 22, assigned to "non-official cover," entailing living abroad with a fake identity and no diplomatic protections.

Fox states her work focused on preventing terror organizations from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, assuming the cover of an art dealer.

Fox's memoir, entitled Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA described her experiences as an officer. Prior to the book's release, numerous journalists and former CIA officers pointed out that her memoir's manuscript had been submitted to publisher Knopf Doubleday without

first receiving approval from the CIA's Publication Review Board, a potential violation of nondisclosure agreements signed by CIA staff. Fox was represented in that process by attorney Mark Zaid.

Mark Zaid was a member of the legal team, led by Andrew Bakaj, representing the

whistleblower whose complaint against President Donald Trump sparked a major political scandal and led to the launching of an impeachment inquiry against the president.

As a student attending The George Washington University, Bakaj interned for three United States Senators:

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chuck Schumer, and Hillary Clinton. Bakaj's internship with Clinton coincided with the September 11 attacks, and he worked directly for her foreign policy advisor.

Bakaj is among the attorneys representing Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Vindman, whose

twin brother Alexander Vindman served as a key witness in President Donald Trump's first impeachment, in a whistleblower reprisal complaint filed with the Pentagon's Inspector General.

In September 2017, Mark Zaid and former U.S. State Department whistleblower John Tye

co-founded Whistleblower Aid, a legal organization that assists people in the government and the private sector to safely report lawbreaking.

Initially focused on employees and contractors of the U.S. federal government, Whistleblower Aid emphasizes it is not WikiLeaks. "No one

should ever send classified information to Whistleblower Aid," the firm states.

In 2020, W-blower received a $150,000 grant from the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm founded by Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar.

In 2013, Pierre Omidyar announced that he would create

and finance First Look Media, a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill.

Omidyar is also a member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council.