Hollywood Hunter

A few days before the final issue of the new magazine, Malcolm Forbes, the second-generation head of the magazine, was still discussing the new annual list of the 400 richest people in the United States with the editorial team.

Compared to previous years, the obvious difference in this year's home list is Sam Walton's withdrawal.

Due to the continued deterioration of his physical condition, Sam Walton has officially transferred the shares under his name to the family trust and several children at the beginning of this year.

If Sam Walton did not transfer the shares, the retail tycoon’s assets of more than 8 billion US dollars will definitely continue to sit firmly on the top spot in the US domestic list.Now, although the Walton family will be counted as a whole in the global list released next month, the position of the richest person in the local list has become a problem that many people pay close attention to.

During this time, Malcolm Forbes has received countless calls inquiring about this matter. Many rich people seem to be indifferent on the surface. In fact, they are very optimistic about their wealth rankings.As the most authoritative wealth list in the world, the magazine has been cautious about the determination of its own list data.

After careful investigation of multi-party forensics and a lot of discussion by the editorial team, the new list has finally been finalized, and Malcolm Forbes also understands that this year's list is destined to become controversial.

Saturday, September 9.

With the release of the new issue of the magazine, early in the morning, Malcolm Forbes's phone in his home in the wealthy district of Far Hills, in the western suburbs of New York, kept ringing. The first sentence many people said was'Mar, you are here Are you kidding us?'

Of course, it can't be a joke.

However, the name of a young man who was at the top of the list this time made too many people feel a little dazzling.

Beverly Hills.

In the villa of the Trausdale Manor, just after five o'clock on the west coast, Simon began to receive calls from all sides to congratulate him on winning the top position of the rich list this year, even Sophia in France and Janet in Australia All calls were made.

Arranged overtime on the weekend, intending to complete the latter part in one fell swoop.However, the chaotic early morning was doomed to work quietly this weekend.

After breakfast, Simon had just left the house by car, and some media reporters who had been squatting outside followed him up until Simon's seat drove into Warner Studios.As soon as he came to the late center of Warner Studios, Terry Semel appeared in front of Simon, the same word of congratulations, and asked Simon if he had time to eat at noon.

Without seriousness, Simon could not bother to have dinner with a big man, and naturally refused.

Gossiping a few words, Terry Semel left, Simon's driver handed over a magazine before he entered the studio in the late center.

Simon instructed to look at the staff with a little more strangeness in his eyes to prepare for today's work, while sitting down on the office chair in the studio and turning over the magazine in his hand.He has no interest in ranking too long, just looking at the magazine and specifically listing the top ten on a whole page.

First place: Simon Westeros, $6 billion, 21 years old.

Second place: John Kruger, $5.2 billion, 76 years old.

Third place: Warren Buffett, $4.2 billion, 59 years old.

Fourth place: Somerstone East, $2.88 billion, 66 years old.

Fifth place: Ted Allison, $2.8 billion, 65 years old.

Sixth place: Donald Newhouse, $2.7 billion, 60 years old.

Seventh place: Samuel Newhouse, $2.7 billion, 61 years old.

Eighth: Anne Cox Chambers, $2.55 billion, 69 years old.

Ninth place: Barbara Cox Anthony, $25.5, 66 years old.

Tenth place: Ross Perot, $2.4 billion, 59 years old.

A group of top rich people with an average age of over 60 suddenly appeared in front of a burly kid, and it really looked very blinking.

Realizing such an initiative in just three years, if you are unhappy, it is hypocritical.

However, Simon did not continue to read more information, but quickly devoted to the day's work.The $6 billion is indeed not much different from Simon’s current net worth, but still far from Simon’s expected goal.At least, on the list of the world's richest men, he estimates that it is still difficult to enter the top ten this year.His goal is not just to enter the top ten of the global list, or even just get the first place.

On his 19th birthday with Janet, there were some frivolous words on the outskirts of Phoenix, he never forgot.

Since he was back to life again, just doing his best did not meet Simon's expectations, he hoped to reach a height that everyone should look up to.

Simon started his day in a calm manner, but the media in North America and even around the world were boiling because of the news that he topped the US 400 rich list.

The first place is always the most concerned.

Just like the Forbes rich list for many years later, the world knows Bill Gates, which has long occupied the first place, but if asked who is the second or third place, most people can't blurt out.

With Simon's summit, the first reaction of the major media is almost one-sided questioning.

Simon Westero is very rich, this is a concept that has been determined in most people’s minds. However, the 21-year-old young man has not become a richest man in the United States in just three years without inheritance, and his personal net worth is as high as 6 billion US dollars. How can this be?

However, compared with last year, all the data given this year are more detailed, and even some assets that Simon thinks are well hidden have been pulled out by Forbes.

Among the personal assets under Simon's name, the most obvious ones are still those technology stocks.

After the large-scale reduction of shares in the first half of the year, although the remaining 19 technology stocks have stocks such as amd that brought losses to Simon, Westeros heavy stocks of Microsoft and Intel stocks have been in the past six months. Are rising continuously.

Compared with the statistics after the reduction at the beginning of the year, the overall value of technology stocks held by Westeros reached 13% in half a year, with a total value of 1.77 billion US dollars.

The second asset is Cersei Capital.

In recent months, the Japanese have deliberately or unintentionally released more news, and Cersei Capital’s operating status has gradually become known to more people.

According to Cersei Capital’s net asset value of more than US$3 billion, Simon is judged to have at least one-third of the share, which is another US$1 billion.

The third asset is a large number of properties under Simon's name.

This is what surprised Simon.

The magazine found the buildings and corresponding plots that Simon bought east of Madison Avenue in Manhattan. At the same time, the batch of real estate investment in Europe was also counted. Counting Simon's large number of luxury homes in cities such as Los Angeles and New York, statistics The total value of the property held by Simon reached US$400 million.

The fourth asset is a series of unlisted companies held by Westeros.

Cisco, AOL, and even Igreat, which was only a few months old, are included, and Gucci, a luxury company, is also included in the statistics.

Cisco has recently emerged, and Gucci's recovery in the past six months is obvious to all.

The value of this batch of unlisted companies is estimated at 300 million US dollars.

It's just that the above four assets have a total value close to $3.5 billion.

Next, the fifth asset is naturally the most important one, Daenerys Entertainment.'

The magazine specifically lists the assets currently owned by Daenerys Entertainment:

The three movie labels of Daenerys, New World and Gaomen with a large number of popular movies;

Daenerys TV Company, which owns several big-earning reality shows;

Marvel Entertainment;

30% equity in BesTV, which owns more than 750 video rental and sales chain stores;

Pixar Animation Studio;

Daenerys Special Effects Company;

Blizzard Studio

Dalibris Studios in Malibu and the headquarters building in New York;

A toy factory in Rhode Island;

Then, it is compared with the list of assets of Columbia Pictures that Sony has just completed the acquisition.

Sony paid a total of 5 billion US dollars for the Columbia and Samsung brands, including more than 4,000 film and television film libraries, a Loews cinema chain with 820 screens, and five local TV stations.

The two major labels, Columbia and Samsung, are clearly far inferior to the three brands of the dynamic Danellis Entertainment, including Danellis, New World and Gaomen.

The copyright of more than 4,000 film and television works may be the biggest advantage of Columbia Pictures, but the income of more than 4,000 film and television works through annual video tapes and television broadcasts and other home entertainment operations may not be as good as that of Danielle. Receipt of one or two blockbuster movies under Silk Entertainment.

This asset is more of a potential secondary development copyright value and a long history.

Although the Loews cinema chain is wholly owned by Colombia, the scale of 820 screens is not worth mentioning relative to the total number of screens in North America that exceeds 23,000.By comparison, Blockbuster has rapidly expanded its market share to 10% in the past six months.

As for local TV stations, in an industry M&A in March this year, Ron Perelman, who was ambitious to enter the media field, bought 12 local TV stations for only $100 million, and counted the liabilities of these TV stations. The total value of the transaction does not exceed US$200 million.

The national television network of the North American mainstream television network is actually mainly established by these television stations. Each of the three old television networks, abc, nbc and cbs, has more than 200 affiliate television stations.

It is not difficult to meet, the value of the TV station in Colombia will not be too high.

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment has already established Daenerys Studios, but Columbia Pictures does not even have its own movie theater. Sony wants to revive the operation of this veteran film company, it must continue to spend money to buy the studio.

In contrast, Sony Ken pays $5 billion for such a film company, and is still in a state of rapid expansion. The lively Daenerys Entertainment will naturally not be too low in value, and even exceed Columbia Pictures.

Considering that Sony has almost doubled the premium paid to obtain Columbia Pictures, the magazine made a valuation of Daenerys Entertainment of not less than US$3 billion.

Finally, after repaying part of the debts due in the first half of the year, Simon’s debt has fallen below $800 million.

Based on the above data, the magazine rounded it up and gave Simon Westeros personal net worth of 6 billion US dollars.

The statistics made by the magazine are well-founded, but the media controversy has not diminished.In addition to a group of technology stocks that Westero publicly holds that are easy to count, the magazine's valuation of several other Simon's assets has become the focus of media discussion.

In the following days, a variety of media discussions and newspaper articles about the magazine’s wealth list were coming up, packed with countless TV screens and various types of newspaper pages. Simon’s attention was already very high, and it became a new one at this time. Some people in North America, some media have already begun to predict whether Simon Westero will appear in this year's Weekly People.

"Is Daenerys Entertainment really worth $3 billion?"

"What is Simon Westero planning to buy the Manhattan plot?"

"Is Daenerys Entertainment worth only $3 billion?"

"Media tycoon John Krueger accused him of exaggerating Westero's personal net worth figures for his attention."

"Cersei Capital's distribution of benefits revealed."

"Robert Galvin, former chairman of Motorola: The sale of Motorola's stock is Simon Westero's biggest mistake."

"Analysis of the investment layout of technology stocks of Westeros."

"Australian qintex Group issued an invitation to MGM for an acquisition price of US$1 billion."

"Best time to bargain-hunt: Westeros is optimistic about the global real estate market."

"Chicago police cracked the "psychic class" fraud case, with a weekly tuition fee of $10,000, and the suspects illegally made more than 2 million."

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This world is never short of blind followers.

No matter how many media platforms discuss disputes, no matter what discussions and events are happening around Simon's personal net worth, Simon Westero's personal net worth of 6 billion US dollars to seize the top position of the US rich list is already an established fact.

As the wave of discussion about Simon's personal net worth continues to spread, the tech sector in the North American stock market and the Japanese stock market, which continues to rise, have flooded a large number of investors in a short period of time.

As the foundation of Simon's fortunes, Hollywood has once again become the object of capital's close attention.

After the 87 stock market crash, Hollywood actually experienced a period of difficulty, and mainstream second-tier companies such as DeLaurentis Entertainment and Canon Pictures have vulnerabilities. However, with the exposure of the rich list in the new year, because of this series of achievements by Simon The illusion of large amounts of capital in the film and television industry has begun to move around again.u

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