Hollywood Hunter

Regardless of whether Lehman Brothers followed suit, after all, it did not have much impact on Simon's operation in the stock index futures market.Noah Scott made a special trip from Chicago to repair the relationship, and Simon will naturally not refuse a thousand miles.

In this country, Simon next wants to go further, it is impossible to get rid of the connection with the investment bank.Although he will still not trust Noah Scott and Lehman Brothers too much, compared to several other investment banks that are still silent, the information that Noah Scott has just revealed has become sincere.

After dinner, Simon and Janet and Noah Scott were separated, just after eight o'clock in the evening.

In the presidential suite on the top floor of the Plaza Hotel.

Janet hung their coats on the hanger and came to the study to see that the man had sat down by the window with his usual hard leather notebook and leaned over to lean on the back of the sofa and asked, "Simon, what are you going to do?" ?"

Simon held the 16-note notebook, which was still bound by hand, used pencils to draw lines on white paper, and casually filled in notes.

Madonna's new album will be released next month. This is a dance-style album called "You-can-dance".Simon had previously handed over a song that fits the album's style.At the time of writing, but another song, Simon intends to be the ending song of "Pulp Fiction."

However, Simon's current thoughts are not here, but just want to find something in his hand for a while.

Despite being reminded by Noah Scott that his operations in the stock index futures market have been exposed, Simon found that he simply has no way to prevent this from being exposed.

Hearing Janet’s question, Simon turned his head and smiled helplessly at the woman, saying, “Nothing can be done, Simon Westero is going to be famous again.”

Janet smiled, turned to the sofa, and leaned over to sit next to Simon.

In front of them were floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlooking the entire Central Park. At this time, the window was dark, and only the buildings on both sides of the park were illuminated by bright lights.

Holding the man's arm and watching him fill in notes on the score, Janet replied a moment later: "Actually, there is nothing to expose, and you haven't done anything illegal."

Simon shook his head: "A nineteen-year-old man has earned more than one billion dollars in just a few months. Is this not enough to violate the rules?"

"Oh, that only shows that my little man is too powerful," Janet leaned over and kissed Simon's face, changing the subject: "Simon, since we can't change, let's not think about it. Watch today What do you think of those houses?"

Simon also tried to get rid of his inner powerlessness as much as possible, and then Janet's topic said: "It's not very good."

Janet was somewhat expectant: "I think the 68th Street top floor duplex is good. The three-story structure, with a total area of ​​more than 1,200 square meters, is next to Central Park. Although the price of $15 million is a bit high, it is Fifth Avenue. The house will definitely appreciate in the future. Even if you don’t like the Baroque interior, we can renovate it."

With the description of Janet, Simon recalled the luxury apartment on Fifth Avenue that he saw during the day.

The 15-story light-grey building built in the 1950s is the top three floors, with a total of 26 rooms, 3 halls, 2 kitchens, 6 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. It also comes with facilities such as a gym, wine cellar and private screening room. I noticed Janet unconsciously The metric measurement used, a smile on the corner of my mouth, said: "Call the real estate agent tomorrow, we will buy this building."

The price of such an apartment in the Upper East Side close to Central Park in the era before Simon's rebirth was absolutely easily over 100 million.

For $15 million, Simon doesn't feel expensive at all.

Of course, now in 1987, $15 million must be regarded as skyrocketing. Especially in the recent collapse of the North American stock market, the US property market will definitely plummet.In Simon’s memory,

Janet saw Simon promise to come down, but with a small hesitant expression on his face, he said: "If you don't like it, let's take a look."

"Buy," Simon turned his head and kissed the woman's cheek. "Actually, I don't really like the entire Manhattan house. Since I want to buy it, we must always have one of them satisfied."

Janet blinked a few times: "What kind of house do you like?"

"You know, modern, minimalist, and naturally if it is the highest level, I want to stand by the window, and all the other buildings in my field of vision are at my feet," Simon said, and suddenly his heart moved. The notebook turned a page, took a pencil to draw quickly, and slowly said: "Probably, that's it."

Janet leaned in curiously.

After waiting quietly for a while, I saw a building with a glass-reinforced plastic structure appear on the manuscript paper.

The whole building is tapered, but there is a terrace on the uppermost floors.Later, Simon also marked a letter on the side. At first, it seemed to be'A'. Well, it should be finished before it was quickly changed to'W'.

'W' is obviously'Westeros'.

Westeros Building.

Simon's drawing skills can be seen in the original sub-lens draft of "Rola Run".A few minutes later, some high-rise building silhouettes were randomly drawn around the building. A building standing tall on Manhattan Island even higher than the Empire State Building and the Petronas Twin Towers jumped on the paper.

Janet waited for Simon to finish painting, but couldn't help but bring the notebook in his hand, blinked a few times, and pointed to the platform at the top of the building: "What is this?"

Simon explained: "Helipad."

"Then," Janet paused. "How high is it?"

"If I don't want to see the Empire State Building outside my bedroom," Simon thought for a while, said: "It should be more than 500 meters."

Janet little dreamed of living in a penthouse apartment in a building over 500 meters high, slowly turned her head to look at Simon, said: "Can this really be built?"

"Since I have earned more than one billion dollars in more than five months, it is no problem to build another building," Simon said, thinking for a moment, and said, "If I start preparing now, maybe, 3 years The construction can start later. Such a building, including all the expenditures such as land, should be enough for 500 million US dollars. Of course, the various internal facilities, the expenditure must also be very large, and there will be future maintenance costs. However, as long as such a building can be built, even if it costs 1 billion US dollars."

Janet's expression was still a little dull, and he put the notebook back into Simon's hands, rubbing the man's arm like a kitten, and said, "Little bastard, I want to live in now."

Simon used a pencil to carefully draw the letter'W' that had just been temporarily changed. Fortunately, before drawing'A', otherwise the'Avenger Building' would be exposed.The Avengers Building in the Marvel Universe movies in memory is probably only as high as the Empire State Building.However, since it is to be built, Simon will naturally come to his liking.

After drawing a few more strokes, Simon heard Janet say this and pointed to the part above the apron at the top of the building, saying: "At that time, all the top ten floors will be Westeros."

"Uh huh," Jenny said with a few thoughts on her head. "I will change her husband's surname in the future."

Simon smiled and turned his head against the woman's head, teasing: "Just to live in a big house, it's so boneless."

"Oh," Janet smiled and pointed to the part below the platform. "What about these?"

"Since it is the Westero Building," Simon said: "Now it should be the headquarters of Westero Company. Of course, it must be carefully planned. These need to be handed over to professionals."

Janet said again: "Where are you going to build this house?"

Simon pointed to the right outside the window and said: "The corner next to it is good. If Fifth Avenue is not working, move it eastward and build it next to Madison Avenue, so that it is still Central Park."

The two murmured a few more words before Janet turned back to the moment and asked, "Since this, little bastard, are we still buying a house?"

"Of course, where else to live," Simon nodded. "The building you just said is good. The building on the sketch is planned for a few years and then built for a few more years. Maybe, when you move in It's seven or eight years later. We can't live without a house in seven or eight years."

"In this case, I will try to lower the price again, it is estimated that it can be won by 12 million US dollars. Now that the stock market crashes, the house prices will also fall sharply. 15 million US dollars is the price before the crash," Janet said. Then, he said: "Little bastard, when the building on the drawing is completed, are you going to move to New York?"

Simon shook his head: "Of course we live where we want to live. In the future we will have a private jet, even if we fly from New York to Los Angeles to work every day."

Janet photographed Simon lightly and said, "I don't want to toss like this."

Simon smiled: "Then I go to work every day, you come to be a housewife."

Janet immediately shook her head again: "No, I don't want to be a housewife."

Simon nodded indifferently: "Well, do whatever you want."

The two chatted for a while, and Janet took the sketch in front of Simon again and said, "Little bastard, in fact, I still think it's a little unlikely."

"You just need to watch me build it," Simon said, adding: "However, you must work hard to make money next."

Janet couldn't help but say: "Who just said that it's already a violation to make more than one billion dollars at the age of 19."

Simon thought for a while and said: "Since it has been known by many people, there is no need to cover it up next. Perhaps this should be considered a good thing."

Prior to this, Simon did many things, always subconsciously making his actions look less conspicuous.Although the results are often dazzling, he has not given up on this behavior that may be a bit of a cover-up.

Now, if the operation of the stock index futures market is exposed, Simon will do something unexpected next, and it should no longer appear so shocking.

You know, one billion US dollars is absolutely very gold-rich in this era.

"Forbes" magazine has just started to count the list of the world's richest people in the past few years. According to this year's latest data, the world's richest people are only those oil families in the Middle East.There are only three in total with a wealth of over US$10 billion.In the fourth-ranked media family, the Newhouse family, the family's wealth directly fell to 8.7 billion US dollars, and the top 10 threshold for the rich list was only 5.4 billion US dollars.

Even if all taxes were removed, Simon was now able to squeeze into the top 100 of the Forbes rich list.

In 1987, the global population officially exceeded 5 billion. Simon, the 100 richest of these 5 billion people, it is conceivable that he is now definitely the top group of people in the pyramid.

In just one year, an 18-year-old boy suddenly squeezed into a list of the world's 100 richest people from a poor and white state. As long as this state is accepted by the outside world, Simon will then do anything outside the imagination. Probably not too abruptly.

Simon continued to stay in New York for a day before returning to Los Angeles, but Janet stayed in New York and continued to work on the house.

On October 30, Simon returned to Los Angeles, and the first week of "Death Is Coming" had already been released at the box office. It was worth 18.16 million US dollars in seven days. Whether it is Fox internal or external media, it is generally predicted that the film will eventually break through the North American box office. 60 million US dollars.

Although it is far from comparable to "Rola Run" and "Butterfly Effect", but in a year, two North American box office top ten movies, one North American box office top 15 movies.Simon's reputation as a blockbuster filmmaker is now fully consolidated.

Simon spent a few days in New York and spared time to complete the script of "Instinct". After returning to Los Angeles, he handed the script to Jonathan Friedman to let him and Amy negotiate new movies with Fox.

Three consecutive films have been successful, this time, Simon will naturally strive for more benefits.

On the other side, after Noah Scott personally visited Simon that day, the two sides remained in contact in the following days, and Simon also heard about himself on Wall Street from time to time.

So until November, although it has been expected, but things broke out, still Simon was caught by surprise.

The fuse is on the Lehman Brothers, and it is also related to Soros, which Simon has always been concerned about.

As a broker of quantum funds, Lehman Brothers in the sell-off on October 22, due to the early leak of news caused the S&P 500 index to plummet, quantum funds suffered heavy losses.After a long period of deliberation, Soros officially brought Lehman Brothers to court, and also involved Simon.