Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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After breakfast, it was time to head back to Manhattan, where the main agenda for the day was related to a series of Westeros investment and partnership projects in China.

The focus was on the last meeting of the morning, on the IPO of China Telecom.

With the participation of Credit Suisse's First Boston team and Cersei Capital's Apollo Management team, as well as a link to the Chinese team, the main purpose of the meeting was to accelerate China Telecom's overseas IPO process.

According to his memory, Simon previously thought that China Telecom's overseas listing could be completed in the first half of next year, because the second half of the year is the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, and once the crisis erupts, even if the IPO is still successfully completed under the Westeros system, the amount of financing will inevitably shrink significantly, and will affect the subsequent share price trend.

The previously tentative date for an official listing was set for around May next year.

Now, Simon has personally patched up that deadline by five months, requiring this IPO operation to be completed by the end of the year.

The IPO process for large state-owned telecoms companies, which have already been listed in cases such as Japan Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, once took years, would have taken only a year in China from the initial plan to list in May next year, when Simon formally signed the contract during his visit to China in April.

The sudden shortening to seven months caught all parties somewhat by surprise.

Simon was also compelled to do so.

With the current momentum of the new technology wave, Simon judged that the Nasdaq will last until the end of the year at most, just as Westeros' overseas IPO idea for China Telecom is largely a gimmick to attract investment in the new technology concept. In that case, if China Telecom does an IPO after the new tech bubble bursts, you can imagine the results.

Simon didn't publicly hammer out the reasons for the decision on the boardroom floor, but all parties actually know what's going on.

At the end of the meeting, Simon had another personal call with the Chinese side at noon and finally reached an agreement. Simon actually has confidence in the efficiency of the Chinese side compared to the dragging West, as the restructuring of China Telecom's assets, supported by Apollo's management team, has progressed much faster than initially expected in the previous months.

That's a Chinese feature.

Decision making is slow, sometimes dragging it out for ten or eight years isn't impossible, but once it's done, it can be very efficient to execute.

In addition, after the morning meeting, Simon personally drove the team from First Boston and Apollo Management directly on the plane to China, together with Chen Qing and the two women, Simon hopes that they personally participate in the next few months of the entire IPO process in China, so that not only can accumulate more experience, but also to further expand their network.

At the same time, it also acts as Simon's 'eyes'.

China Telecom is the first overseas listing of a large Chinese state-owned enterprise and a test run for overseas financing for many of China's large state-owned enterprises, and is crucial for China, as well as for the Westeros system that will be able to take on the financial cake of more overseas listings of Chinese state-owned enterprises in the future.

So there is no room for error.

The evening was a reception for one of Verizon Telecom's investors, and Simon didn't stay long at the reception, arriving at eight o'clock and simply greeting some important guests, exchanging pleasantries, and leaving early half an hour later.

Catching up with an apartment in Greenwich, this is Jerry Hall's house.

Just after a few knocks, the door opened and one of the more pavilion-worthy little girls jumped out and jumped on Simon, her mouth sweet, "Daddy."

Simon came through the door with Jerry Hall's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, in his arms, only to find that there was a party going on over here too, and it was a very relaxed house party, the trailing family kind.

A quick glance makes it roughly clear that this side is sort of Jerry Hall's social circle, fashion, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and the like; TV.

Most of them know each other because of memories of past lives.

Of course, many of them were just acquaintances, and once even a dozen identities, for the top of these various pyramids often only looked up to, but this time, Simon was the one who was definitely looked up to.

Since it was some unruly little girl who had probably gotten the news or the authorization from her mother to call and invite Simon over at noon, she didn't realize that this side was a party. Even though he had a busy week and didn't want to socialize anymore, Simon didn't think much of women's little thoughts.

Dropping the smiling goblin right onto one of the living room couches before Simon turned to the welcoming Jerry Hall.

Jerry Hall carefully checked Simon's expression to make sure the man didn't mind, before he relented and moved forward to hug Simon, taking his arm on the way to the crowd.

Many sharp-eyed guests also came together at the first time.

Jerry Hall this was still Simon paid for the purchase of the large flat apartment in the beginning with a total area of more than 700 square meters, occupying an entire floor of the apartment building, equivalent to the size of six or seven sets of ordinary people's apartments, the slightest bit of attention could be lost, tonight's more than a hundred guests scattered among them did not appear crowded in the slightest.

"For Vogue to stop, this is a real loss for the fashion industry, Simon, are you really not going to reconsider?"

In the corner of the living room, Anna Wintour said so with regret, and the few people who were able to get together around her also conformed. The latest hot topic in this circle was the fact that the Victoria's Secret show was going to be discontinued after this year, after all the influence the fashion super bowl had accumulated over the past few years was too great.

Simon hugged the slim waist of the tall woman next to him and shook his head with a smile, "It's a decision that has already been made, and it's not a permanent suspension. Unlike the Super Bowl and the Oscars, it's hard to surprise the audience every year with the model of the Vimy Show, so I hope it can be suspended while it still leaves the best memories, and it will definitely be restarted at the right time in the future."

The crowd nodded again in understanding.

It was a pleasant surprise to meet this young man of increasingly incandescent power and wealth tonight, and no one would be foolish enough to deliberately pick on him.

Anna Wintour also looked understanding and added, "Simon, speaking of which, we've finalized the September issue of Vogue, the most important issue of the year, to do a Vimeo feature, as the creator of the Vimeo show, can you find time for a short interview?"

This time Simon just smiled and shook his head.

Not wanting to take that chance.

The first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of people who were not interested in the music, but they were looking forward to the last issue.

"Well, I'm sure I will if I'm inspired."

Simon said, not to be reminded of the previous day's "Love Transfer", Janet's idea was to make a Simon Westeros 'to Jenny' latest single released publicly, Simon was the more I thought about it, the more wrong it was, and finally firmly opposed to the next or stop, after all, the song, not to mention the Chinese language, the lyrics ah! ...... As a Westerner Janet is not as deep as Simon in the end.

It's simply not appropriate to go public with Simon's name.

In the end it was just a decision to move forward with projects related to film and music in China, which Simon was not going to sign at all.

Janet pretended to be angry for a while and then dropped it in the blink of an eye.

This time around, Simon could have easily come up with a few classic BGMs if he wanted to, but just didn't have any such plans and was just playing Tai Chi in the face of Jane Winer's inquiries.

So social for a while, Simon temporarily left to go to the bathroom, and came out again, and saw Kris Jenner in a black deep V dress through the corridor to this side, very fortuitous look, saw Simon, once again with just the right surprise expression greeted: "Simon, I ...... um. Go over there."

For this woman, every time he saw it, Simon didn't have any thoughts of getting into bed, but it was always hard to avoid some urge to flirt with it.

Casually pushing open a door next to him, he ignored the woman's little excuse and simply said, "Come."

Chrissy Jenner hesitated a little, and subconsciously looked behind her to make sure no one was paying attention before she even stepped into the room, closed the door backhandedly, turned around to take stock, it was a simple style study, the side of the window was a lounge area, the man was already leaning on the couch, saw her turn, with a bad smile raised his hand to do a downward motion.

The first time I was in a position to do so, I had to go back to my hometown, and I had to go back to my home.

The party was still lively.

There was a circle of adults and a circle of children.

Elizabeth pulled Paris Hilton sisters, Kardashian sisters, these little friends hiding in their own room exhibition (xuan) show (yao) some time ago with her mother to go to Japan with the purchase of a beautiful cherry blossom kimono vacation, frolicking blah blah blah for a while, but also remembered the geisha doll brought back from Japan, momentarily forgot where, ran out to ask their mother, just in time to see Simon from the other side of the corridor, played! beckoned, and turned to the other side of the hallway with Kim Kardashian, who had developed into a follower herself.

Simon paused as he watched the two girls run off, saying nothing, as if it was too late to say anything.

Elizabeth pushed open the door to the study room where it was obvious Simon had just been in and out and went straight to the bookshelf, pointing to a whole row of about five or six 20cm high beautiful geisha dolls on top, "Look, this is it, let's take it to Ini and the others."

Kim Kardashian was about to help when she suddenly sniffled and said, "Liz, what does ...... seem to smell like in here?"

Elizabeth was confused, "What?"

I said and sniffled.

Then the two girl puppy seekers came over to the couch, looked at the obvious patch of wetness on the expensive Persian rug in front of the couch, and sniffled again, and Kim Kardashian looked odd, "Liz, your family has a dog?"

"No it's not," understanding what this was Elizabeth's little expression changed a few times and got angry again, "That's ...... so uncivilized, but my mother had it brought back from Iran on purpose. " The girl said already covering her nose and taking two steps back, getting even angrier, "If I find out who it is, never set foot in our front door again."

How could Kim Kardashian be willing to do this in her heart after being roped in by Elizabeth from Paris, even though she had been conscientious about being the girl's little fundamental.

Seeing Elizabeth nearly jumping up and down in anger, she was afraid to say anything on the surface, but it was hard not to gloat, pretending not to mean it, "Well, how do you find out who it is?"

Elizabeth spun her little brain around, moved up some, and immediately backed away, forgetting even to take the geisha doll and running right out of the house, intending to tell on her mother.

Kim Kardashian lagged behind a little footsteps to catch up, and thought on the way out, simply let this study room door open, and then be found by others, hmm, see your family is not a little embarrassed, may still think that the Hall family has a strange habit, like to ...... tsk on the carpet.

Only, as soon as Kim Kardashian left, the door to the study was somehow reappropriate. The room was still a little lucky that the two girls hadn't just come back up and noticed the back of the couch. But then it occurred to them that they obviously couldn't stay here much longer.

Once again, they found their mother and Simon, who were chatting with supermodel Cindy Crawford and her fiancé, Randall Gerber, as well as Stephanie Seymour and each other's billionaire husband, Peter Brandt.

The girl, always a lady before grown-ups, waited a moment before whispering in her mother's ear.

Jerry Hall heard, thought, beckoned a waitress, let Elizabeth take the other over to take a look, Cindy and the others have gone away, the girl does not want to go over, immediately hanging on to Simon. Jerry Hall had no choice but to take care of it himself.

When her mother walked away, Elizabeth immediately took Simon by the hand, "Daddy, let's go over to my place and show you my kimono, it's beautiful."

Simon roughly guessed what Elizabeth had just said to his mother and remained silent on the surface, only to see Kim Kardashian, who had followed quietly, and his expression flickered a little oddly.

He was soon dragged by Elizabeth to the girls' bedroom, a room full of girls over here and a party full of boys who obviously couldn't get into this circle of girls.

Simon entered the doorway just in time to see a certain tall girl, also familiar from memory, trying on a blue flower-embellished kimono, and, as soon as Elizabeth saw it, began to laugh, "Ini, you're so fat, it doesn't fit at all, haha, it's ugly."

No woman, not even a girl, wants to hear someone call her fat.

When Elizabeth said that, Ivanka, the daughter of a certain blond real estate developer, was not happy: "I'm just better developed and taller than you are," the girl said, straightening her waist and then giving a very lethal squint to Elizabeth's chest: "Striped fish."

Striped fish?

It was a bit too much of a kill, and the girl immediately released Simon and lunged towards Ivanka on the bed, her small, slender body flinging the obviously taller girl directly onto the bed, still half-heartedly wrestling.

Simon was here to watch the fun, but of course he wasn't helping.

When they came to the sofa against the wall, the girls, who had seen Simon with little stars in their eyes, immediately gave him their seats.

Simon sat down in the seat that Paris Hilton had vacated, and with some ridicule patted his knee, and the girl, not squirming at all, sat down directly on Simon's lap, and hugged him affectionately around the neck towards Elizabeth, who was frolicking with Ivanka, "Liz, your dad is mine."