Hollywood Hunter

This year's Oscar side party re-planned.

Gucci Party officially changed its name to Melissa Sandra Party, even applied for a special trademark, and confirmed "Vanity Fair" magazine and Igrid Portal as the official media partner. At the same time, the party location was also changed to the top of the West Hollywood Sunset Tower Hotel Sunset Tower Bar with wide interior and spacious terrace.

In addition, the invitation letter of the party is no longer as easy to obtain as before. The work team of Melisandre specializing in this after-party party started to find the invitation list one month in advance. The number of guests will be limited to about 200, far below The scale of thousands of spectators at the Academy Awards.

It can be said that it is even more difficult to obtain the invitation letter of the Melissa Sandra Oscar aftermath party than to participate in the Oscar.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the Oscar award ceremony at the Dorothy Chandler Theater in the city center officially ended, and superstars and celebrities with invitations to the Melisandre party rushed to West Hollywood.Those who did not get the invitation letter are not short of places to go. This night, there will be a variety of parties everywhere in Los Angeles, but it is difficult for other parties to get much media attention from the Melisandre party.

Erin Lauder left the Dorothy Chandler Theater with the "Wonder Woman" crew and rushed directly to the Melisandre party at the Sunset Tower Hotel.

Simon has arranged everything for her in advance. She did not make her alone from New York to Los Angeles. She felt out of place in the strange circle of Hollywood. There was even a person who was said to be for Keanu Reeves and Famique Jen. Sen and Sandra Bullock, the top public relations managers of star services, discussed with her whether to arrange some media drafts.

Although she refused the other party's suggestion, she couldn't help but feel some favors with a fellow again.

Came to the Sunset Tower Hotel, because she did not want to appear in front of the media, she directly bypassed the reporter's photo area and entered the hotel building through other entrances.

The party was very thoughtful in details and specially prepared a temporary dressing room for the guests.

Formal dresses are required to participate in the Oscars, but the Melisandre party is very casual, there is no requirement for clothes, and guests are certainly inconvenient to walk around in long dresses.The dresses on many celebrities are rented and cost tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. If they get dirty at the party, they will inevitably be distressed.

Erin Lauder also prepared two sets of clothing. A light blue knee-length dress was used for the party. The style is avant-garde and business-oriented. When choosing clothes, I think a guy should like it.

After changing the clothes, the original dress was handed over to the accompanying assistant who arranged for him. Erin Lauder finally entered the party scene. The atmosphere here was very relaxed. Many familiar Hollywood stars gathered in groups to chat In addition, there are many celebrities in politics and business that she happens to know.

Looking around, waiting by the way just to talk about the Wonder Woman player Famique Jensen who just chatted up, a woman wearing a simple black dress but quite beautiful and full of mature intellectual breath Come over and take the initiative to reach out to her: "Hello, Miss Lauder, this is Sophia Fischer."

Irene Lauder just entered the family business after graduating from college last year, but she also listened to elders talking about a lot of information in the industry on weekdays.

Hearing the woman's self-introduction in front of her, she immediately thought of her identity.

Sofia Fischer, chairman and CEO of Melisandre.

This is a very powerful woman. In just a few years, Melisandre became a comprehensive luxury goods group.Moreover, the other party has a very obvious relationship with Simon Westero.

"Hello, Ms. Fishy, ​​it's nice to meet you."

Thinking about it this way, Erin Lauder shook hands with Sofia politely, and looked at each other subconsciously.

The first feeling is that the woman's skin is really good. The skin exposed on the slightly conservative round neck black dress is smooth, delicate and fair, and seems to be flawless.

Even people really want to pinch.

Ok.

I don't know if he pinched.

Sophia let the girl look at herself, and glanced at the light blue dress on her body, smiling: "Is this the latest model that Montana just released some time ago?"

Erin Lauder was a little surprised and nodded: "Yes, Ms. Fisher, do you know this dress?"

Sophia said: "It's a typical Montana design style. It's bold and avant-garde. It wears you a little more intellectually, and it fits perfectly."

"Oh, thank you," Irene Lauder was a little embarrassed and wanted to compliment the clothes on the other person's body, but she didn't have the eyesight as Sofia. Hesitantly, there were some ghosts who turned the topic to some guy. "Simon... ...Will Mr. Westero come over tonight?"

Sofia smiled a little more at the corner of her mouth and said, "Of course, but it will take a while."

As he was saying, another female voice seemed to be sounding aside: "Hi, Sofia."

The two turned around together, and Sofia opened her arms towards the girl who came over: "Good evening, Sandy, you are so beautiful tonight."

The person coming is Sandra Bullock.

"Thanks, you too."

"Oh, let me introduce you, this is Miss Irene Lauder."

Sandra stepped forward and gently hugged Erin Lauder, and subconsciously asked, "Estee Lauder?"

Erin Lauder nodded and said, "Espee Lauder is my grandmother."

"That's a very legendary woman."

"Thank you, my grandmother has watched your "Rola Run", she likes it very much."

"Oh, ah, you mean..."

"Grandmother is 85 years old, but she has always been in good health."

"that's nice."

After a brief chat, Sandra turned to Sofia and asked, "Why didn't I see Simon?"

Sofia smiled: "He is the boss, of course, whenever he wants to appear."

"It's getting harder and harder to see him now."

"You also know how busy he is."

"Yeah, busy making so much money, don't give me some."

"You can ask him."

"Forget it, in case he dumped me a billion, I don't know how to spend it."

"Oh, I can help you."

"You still help him directly," Sandra opened a somewhat ambiguous joke, and saw a figure not far away, said: "Kinu is coming, I will say hello, this guy has also been away for a long time. "

When Sandra left, Sofia glanced at the entrance and said to Erin Lauder beside her: "The crew of "Wen Xiang Zhi Xuan Zhi" is here. Let's get to know them together?"

Erin Lauder hadn’t seen Famick Jensen, she nodded and said, “Okay.”

As the big winner of the Oscar this time, the crew of "Wenxiang Knowing Women" has just caused a small disturbance on the party scene.

When the two women stepped forward together, they simply greeted each other and had to give the opportunity to communicate to others.

Just after leaving the team of "Wen Xiang Zhiren", several tall beautiful girls came together. It was the five spokespersons of Victoria's Secret, Cindy Crawford, Yasmine Garry, Tyra. Banks, Helena Christensen and Stephanie Seymour.

Erin Lauder listened to Sofia enthusiastically greet a few girls and found out that, before talking a few words, Stephanie Seymour asked when a guy would appear.

It seems, the third time?

In the subsequent greetings, almost no surprise, the fourth, fifth, sixth...

Near ten o'clock, when a guy finally appeared, Erin Lauder felt that it was better to stay away from him.

It's too much to miss this bastard woman, she doesn't want to be one of his many lovers.

Despite this thought, when he praised her tonight for her beautiful skirt, he couldn't help but feel a little happy. When he walked away with Sophia Fischer, it was inevitable that he was a bit tasted.

The shuttle spent more than half an hour entertaining the crowd, congratulated the winners tonight, and greeted some important guests. Simon finally got free and walked to the terrace outside the bar with Sofia.

The two sat down on a sofa in the corner of the terrace. Sophia finally asked with some sarcasm: "How did you hook up with the little girl of the Lauder family?"

Simon said casually: "Just met at a New York party the other day."

Sophia just twitched it a little bit, and she didn't have the urge to chase it hard, and what she should have done just now.Seeing so many beautiful girls paying attention to Simon, the girl should die.

In some ways, Sofia and the female assistant are actually very similar.

As his lover, knowing that she had no chance to fight for anything, it does not mean that she would be happy to see other women beside him.

So I talked about some serious business.

"The Christie's side has probably been negotiated. 309 pence per share, a total of 562 million pounds, equivalent to 878 million US dollars. If you are no problem here, I will return to Europe tomorrow, the news will be officially announced."

Simon nodded: "I read your memo this morning."

Compared to last Friday’s closing price, the transaction price of 309 pence per share is equivalent to a 23% premium, which is exactly 30% higher than the stock price when negotiations began in mid-February.

During this more than one month of negotiation, the two parties sawed several times, and Christie's stock price on the London Stock Exchange continued to fluctuate.

In early March, because Christie's refused to make too many concessions, Sofia suspended the negotiations decisively and made a gesture of completely abandoning the acquisition. In the next two weeks, Christie's stock price, which had continued to rise, began to fall.

Until last Friday, Christie's took the initiative to contact, Sofia also gave a long-prepared plan, and said this was the last offer by Melisandre.

If Christie’s does not accept, the transaction is completely terminated.

Although some shareholders were not reconciled, after the board of directors voted, Melissa's acquisition plan was finally approved.

Obviously, most shareholders also understand that even if Simon Westero is optimistic about Christie's, because of the size of the industry, this auction house is unlikely to sell too high a price.

Continuing to talk about some details, Sofia asked again: "And, what about that Joseph Lewis?"

Simon said: "You should have read each other's information too. I am very interested in the Tavistock group under the name of Joseph Lewis and may have the opportunity to cooperate in the future."

Joseph Lewis wanted to establish a cooperative relationship with Simon. After investigating the details of each other, Simon also found that Joseph Lewis may be a springboard for his investment in Latin America.

This acquisition, the original plan, Melisandre only intends to use its own funds to obtain approximately 51% of Christie’s shares and achieve absolute control. The remaining shares are jointly held by Apollo Management Company under Cersei Capital and other capitals. Have.

After Simon promised Joseph Lewis to take part in a party in New York, Sofia had to change the financing strategy that had been formulated, and allocate 20% of the shares to Joseph Lewis.

Moreover, such as the Italian investment fund controlled by the Agnelli family behind the Fiat Group, plans to obtain about 15% of the shares, and the Italian media tycoon Berlusconi's 10% investment share, these are not just pure holdings It is so simple that it actually symbolizes a cooperation between the Westeros system and Italian local capital, which cannot be pushed or even pushed.

After urgent consultations with Joseph Lewis, it was ultimately only possible to reduce Melisandre’s own share.

Fortunately, Joseph Lewis also spared no effort to establish a cooperative relationship with the Westeros system, and offered to permanently grant 20% of the voting rights to Melisandre. Unless the stock is sold in the future, Joseph Lewis will Has only held equity, but no voting rights.

Calculated, although Melissa Sandra’s shareholding in Christie’s was reduced to 31%, but accounting for 20% of Joseph Lewis, 11% of Cersei Capital’s $100 million investment, Christie’s owned by the Westeros system The voting power will reach 62%.

A 31% shareholding, an absolute controlling stake, is an investment state that Simon is very happy to see.

Even if the capital accumulation of the Westeros system is rapid again, after all, there is a certain limit. Using other people's money to increase its own capital influence is actually one of the important purposes of Simon's development of Cersei Capital.

For example, if Black Rock Asset Management, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, can reach the pinnacle of once controlling $6 trillion in assets worldwide, it will be a huge capital enough to subvert a country.Capital itself cannot exert influence. After all, if you want to do this, you still have to implement it through individuals. Cersei Capital controls the funds to buy a company’s stock. After reaching a certain percentage, the Westeros system can dispatch its own Representatives are stationed on the board of directors of this company, thus forming an influence on a company.

The more powerful corporate giants, the more inclined they tend to be publicly held companies. In such companies, the board of directors is basically the actual controller.

If the Westeros system has its own seat on the boards of corporate giants such as General Electric, Boeing, ExxonMobil, IBM, etc., to a certain extent, Simon will also control the US economy, expand outward, and global The same is true within the scope.

The most important point is that the Westeros system does not have so much money itself.