In fact, he even endorsed (or all but endorsed) Warner in the election before that (2008).
Maybe they are related after all.
And while he achieved fame as one of Elizabeth Taylor's husbands, it was actually his first wife, daughter of Paul Mellon and granddaughter of Andrew Mellon, whose money made him what he is today.
Didn’t Warner win the GOP senate nomination after his opponent(who had beaten him in the primary) was killed in a plane crash?