Hollywood Hunter

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"Simon, I actually very much don't want this money from you, I know you're trying to push me to the front of the stage to fend off public pressure, and it looks like I'm running away from that fate. So, in exchange, how about talking a little about your thoughts on Russia?"

The estate in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

After lunch, the work schedule continues and Simon is entertaining George Soros.

The Southeast Asian operation had already been set up, and Cersei's hedging team was also planning the move.

In order to minimize the size of Cersei Capital's operations and avoid being targeted by Asian countries, Simon wanted to put some of the money into Soros's Quantum Fund, and the two sides had already negotiated a $3 billion investment agreement. After all, it is a big client, and the follow-up of Westeros system also has a different meaning, Soros took the initiative to give a good discount in terms of management fees and commissions.

The financial predator is just whining at this point.

The first time I was in the market, I had a lot of people to blame for the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, but really, the hedge fund magnate is more of a shield that the West has put out to attract firepower, and there are numerous hunting capitals behind the crocodile, which can be hunted madly and dried off at random, and in the blink of an eye, they can jump out as saviors and re-harvest in Southeast Asia.

Simon would have preferred to be a 'noble' saviour.

The two had just discussed some of the details of the Southeast Asian layout, and Simon heard Soros mention Russia and with a glazed eye, fondle his coffee cup, "George, what aspect of Russia would you like to know my opinion on?"

"Political prospects," Soros said, and added, "I know you were in Russia once a while ago, and the Westeros system has been having various layouts in Russia, but I can't see what you're trying to do."

"The political outlook, ah, is obvious: with our combined efforts, Yeltsin can be re-elected this time, and then we can all very happily privatize the large Russian state-owned enterprises and divide the profits."

Soros, sensing the banter in Simon's tone, looked more cautious instead, "Simon, don't you think it would be a good idea to permanently eliminate this potential problem in Russia?"

"That's actually two questions, George," said Simon, getting serious too, "Can we do it, and, do we have to do it?"

"Well?"

Simon was about to continue speaking when a young girl in a pale pink straight skirt came over with a pot of coffee and was a little embarrassed to see the two of them looking at him together, but held up the coffee pot in her hand.

Watching the young girl refill their coffee, Simon said to a confused Soros, "This is Jemma, Sophia's daughter."

Soros naturally knew Sophia Fessi, and the slight displeasure in his expression at the news immediately turned into amiability, smiling and nodding to the girl.

Simon said again to Gemma, "This is Mr. Soros, a very good financier."

Gemma put down the coffee pot and called out nicely, "Hello Mr. Soros, nice to meet you, Simon and Mom have talked about you, the first to beat the pound."

Soros shook hands with the little girl, "Hello Gemma, you can call me George. And, you're very pretty."

"Thanks."

When they had been greeted, Simon said to Gemma, "I'm leaving at about four o'clock, would you like to go to the James Bond premiere in Los Angeles with me?"

Gemma didn't sit down and looked at Simon, "I'm just coming over to say hi, I'm not going, and I have homework."

"Homework aside, where does a pretty girl need to do any homework, there are some other people who will be coming along, and you can bring some buddies along for a few days on the west coast."

"I'd rather not, Danny's off to summer camp, I can't leave Grandma and Grandpa running around too."

Gemma's expression was slightly intent on refusing, in the end.

When Gemma disappeared, Soros complimented her and brought the conversation back to earlier, "Simon, the two questions you were talking about?"

"Yeah, two questions," said Simon, gathering his thoughts a little, "First, Russia has remained a power for centuries, since the time of the Tsars, and therefore that means that the country has a deep-rooted DNA of power, which sounds somewhat inscrutable, but is Not to be ignored is the fact that Russia is not destined to fall completely. And, more realistically, even though the Soviet Union has collapsed, Russia still has its underpinnings and is a nuclear weapons power, so it is also difficult to keep dismembering and indirectly controlling as you think."

Soros pondered a little and said, "Simon, I don't think anything is permanent, how do we know if we don't try?"

"That's the second question," Simon continued as he took a sip of his coffee, "Do we have to do this? There is a Chinese philosophical saying to the effect that a country in a state of ever-vigilant anxiety is more likely to survive, and if it lacks an enemy and slackens peacefully for a long time, it may perish at any moment instead."

"I see, Simon, you want to preserve a strategic adversary like Russia?"

"Exactly."

"Simon, I don't think the United States is ever short of strategic adversaries, such as China, which you just mentioned. And Russia, in my opinion, is a rather uncertain and dangerous country."

Simon shook his head, "Times have changed, George, not a few hundred years ago, not even a few decades ago, the world has formed an international order that will be fairly stable for a long time to come, so you don't need to think about things in the same way you did a few decades ago. Unless the leader of Russia is a madman in the future, this country is also bound to comply with the existing international order as much as possible, even if it violates it, and will encounter the appropriate penalties."

Soros pondered seriously for a moment and said again, "Simon, I still stand by my opinion."

Simon smiled and nodded, "Of course, you can go ahead with your plan and I will go ahead with mine, it's not a conflict, not even a conflict of interest between us, because I'm not going to go over to fight for more Russian state assets in the next few years."

Once upon a time, Soros began betting heavily on Russia after Yeltsin's re-election.

The last secret meeting when Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana talked about to be given as a gift to Simon's privatized shares of the Russian telecommunications giant, the original time and space is the Russian oligarch Potanin in the bag with the huge financial support provided by Soros, in addition to eating a large number of privatized shares, Soros also purchased large sums of Russian government bonds and corporate bonds.

In 1998, the Russian economy hit rock bottom, and there was even a rare default on Russian government bonds, which led to Soros' hot-headed exit from Russia after losing billions of dollars in Southeast Asia, where he had just been on a hot streak.

From Simon's point of view, what Soros is doing is actually a kind of economic infiltration, making profits and at the same time strategically trying to control the Russian economy and thus the country.

Simon is actually doing the same thing.

Soros ending up as a failure is a negative case study for Simon as well.

The main thing is to measure what you can afford.

For large countries, don't expect absolute control, but rather a steady step-by-step approach to gain more influence. As for the Ukraine, such a doomed small country, only to be able to talk about control, after all, this was lulled into self-abandonment of the domestic disk of sand country can only be reduced to a standard pawn in the game of great powers.

Even if play bad, both sides of the game who will not be more serious.

Send away Soros, has returned from Europe Celia Miller and reported to Simon and the results of the French negotiations.

The Chirac authorities basically agreed to Simon's demands.

A certain top French military official who had been working quietly for two years would retire in the near future, and Paris promised that there would be no further entanglements. At the same time, the Chirac authorities also demanded that Simon stop supporting Rwanda's constant international troublemaking and let the matter go once and for all.

Simon, of course, had no objections.

The matter seemed to have reached a good ending, but both sides actually knew that it could not be completely over.

Just like the French side didn't mention the evidence of the captured soldiers' confessions that Simon kept in his hands, because they knew they wouldn't be able to get it back, so they didn't waste their breath.

What happens later, later.

Nothing more than you and me.

After talking about this matter, Simon with a group of entourage in a helicopter to JFK International Airport, this side of the Boeing 767 unit is already waiting to take off.

There were others waiting.

After the first few times, Jerry Hall's daughter Elizabeth has been familiar with the way, it also happens to be the summer holidays, a certain unruly little girl who has become accustomed to calling Simon's father, once again took a group of friends to scuffle Simon's private jet to Los Angeles to attend the premiere of "007's Ghost Party".

This time, there were no other parents except for Jerry Hall.

Instead, Jerry Hall brought along three children, and then the already familiar group of girl liars, the Hilton sisters, the Kardashians and so on, chattering group, Simon this time also accidentally found a certain girl named Ivanka, 14 years old, already very tall.

A little running through made it clear why they could hang out together.

Obviously a bunch of rebellious girls who aren't even very upbeat, like Ivanka, the widely circulated photo of her teenage head in a chicken coop smoking in public, and that tells you which group she's from in Manhattan. And like Sophia's daughter, Gemma, or Grace's daughter, Rita, who's either a good girl or very upbeat, it's not going to play well together.

When the private jet took off from JFK International Airport, leaving the two little children in the care of the maids and explaining the girls who were frolicking in the mid-cabin, Jerry Hall came to the forward cabin, saw Simon sitting on the couch by the porthole in the living room, flipping through a file and still looking a little out of it, leaned over and sat down on the man's lap, put his arm around his neck and asked, "What's on your mind? "

Simon reached around the woman's waist and placed the folder on those amazingly long legs and casually said, "Wondering how I don't have any good kids to hang out with, full of little girls who aren't motivated."

Jerry Hall laughed and said, "Liz they're all still young and they're already doing well, for the record, Liz has also started a channel on YouTube and has over 600,000 followers, she doesn't even need my allowance now."

Simon nodded and hmmmed.

Jerry Hall scanned the document in the man's hand and saw that Simon didn't seem to care, he looked at it a few more times before saying, "This is ...... Well, you're going to buy the Hearst Group's newspaper assets?"

The document in hand is a proposal for the sale of the assets of the Hearst Group, the Hearst family, whose situation has become increasingly dire in the past two years, intends to sell another batch of newspapers, with Goldman Sachs in charge of the project.

Then quite naturally it went into Simon's hands.

Shaking his head, Simon said, "Just looking at it."

For the Hearst Group, Simon had never had the intention of letting go completely, so he had been intentionally keeping an eye on it, and with the unparalleled prophetic advantage, Simon just needed to make sure that the family couldn't go down the right path, and decline was inevitable.

Just as two years ago, Simon had already divested the Hearst Group of all the cable assets that later accounted for more than half of the family's assets and had long-term growth potential, especially ESPN's stake, now the Hearst family was simply confined to the doomed print media sector.

For example, the Hearst Group's most valuable newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, which was the second largest newspaper in California after the Los Angeles Times, was already losing money and shrinking in value after entering 1996, and the Hearst Group's most valuable newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, was already losing money and shrinking in value after entering 1996.

In a few more years, even bankruptcy is not out of the question.

In order to avoid jumping to the wall, Simon has been no big action, completely lukewarm water to slowly suppress, even in the end, in fact, the Hearst family is still able to retain a considerable amount of assets, enough to maintain a reasonably good life, only this family in the American society will no longer have the kind of media discourse that can even start a war.

Jerry Hall, who was well aware of Simon's entanglement with the Hearst family, didn't ask too many questions, chatted with the man about recent events, brewed up a bit of a whisper, and leaned in to his ear, "Let's go to the bedroom, shall we, for four hours."

Four hours really isn't that long.

It was five o'clock in the afternoon on the West Coast when the Boeing 767 landed at LAX.

The red carpet for the premiere of James Bond's Ghostbusters was also at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Simon did not intend to walk the red carpet, so there was no hurry, but Jerry Hall wanted to take this opportunity to show his face, so he was already dressed up on the plane, got off the plane, directly into the limousine to the downtown Sacred Civic Auditorium.

Choosing the Sacred Civic Auditorium for the premiere of James Bond's Ghost Party instead of the usual Hollywood Chinese Theatre was a big move by MGM.

This was supposed to be the beginning of a new phase for MGM.

No room for error.

So give it your all.

Simon and the frolics of a group of girls in a few other cars, but did not condone these girls also go to rub the red carpet request, are some big stars, put a group of girls up, too imprecise.

Arriving at the Holy Civic Auditorium, they entered directly through the back door.

The girls ran to settle down, Simon does not walk the red carpet, or with a few promotional photos, and Shirley Lansing together to a media area in the auditorium, the end of the posing, is chatting with Lansing, a large Arnold Schwarzenegger came over with his wife, enthusiastic with some pleasantness and Simon greeting.

Simon knew why Schwarzenegger had chased him over to the premiere.

It was still the matter of the rights to The Terminator.

After the failure of The Secret Order of Vaporization, and with the whole Hollywood environment, Schwarzenegger thought of rebooting the Terminator series again to avoid the curiosity drop.

Simon considered and agreed to transfer the filming rights as well.

This matter was almost settled, but because Schwarzenegger has found a partner who is controlled by Vivendi's Disney, the French side made a small move a few days ago, and also deliberately jammed the release of Danielle's entertainment-related films in France, Simon returned the favor and directly shelved the negotiations on the rights to the Terminator.

Now, the French side of the matter is done, it is also the time to let go.