Example:
Salman Rushdie & girlfriend
Padma Lakshmi
Nothing has changed.
Jan 26, 1995
The Walt Disney Company announces that earnings have grown 31 percent in its fiscal first quarter. The company's investment in Euro Disney resulted in income of $27.9 million, reflecting a gain of $55 million from the sale of approximately 75 million shares to Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
In 2000:
Investment of $50 million in Walt Disney, operator of media networks, studio entertainment, theme parks and resorts, consumer products, Internet and direct marketing ventures.
The Walt Disney Company, through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified entertainment company worldwide.
It operates in four segments: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio Entertainment, and Consumer Products. Media Networks segment operates ABC Television Network (ABCTN) and ABC Radio Networks (ABCRN). ABCTN broadcasts programs in dayparts, such as early morning, daytime, late night, prime time, news, children, and sports; and has 226 primary affiliated stations.
ABCRN produces and distributes various programs and formats, including ABC News Radio and other news network programming, syndicated talk and music programs, ABC Sports programming, and 24-hour music formats to approximately 4,800 affiliated radio stations.
Great post!
such a great post, you should take it and start a new thread with it---"Saudi Prince Owns Disney--No Wonder Graham was Fired!"
Brilliant post! How can we find out how much of Reuters and AFP (for example) the Saudi's own?
That's not all the Prince owns:
"And so it is that Citigroup, the world's largest financial institution, finds itself confronting the fact that a bank it partly owned and managed in Saudi Arabia may have funneled thousands of dollars to terror groups and to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers--at the behest of the Saudi royal family.
The allegations involve Saudi American Bank, also known as Samba, the Riyadh-based affiliate in which Citi had a 20% stake. In late 2002 Samba was added as a defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by relatives of Sept. 11 victims against prominent Saudis and charities to which they appeared to be connected. The suit, prosecuted by Washington, D.C. lawyer Allan Gerson, among others, alleges that Samba "participated in the fundraising campaign in Saudi Arabia for collecting donations to the heroes" of the Palestinian uprising. Samba has filed a motion to dismiss.
Now Gerson is eyeing an additional suit against Citigroup and has lined up as possible plaintiffs 450 people who have lost relatives or themselves been injured in terror attacks in Israel.
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The royal family's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, the world's fourth-richest man, owns $9.4 billion in Citigroup stock and a 7%-plus stake in Samba."
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/research_topics/research_topics_show.htm?doc_id=241713&attrib_id=7575