Out with a bang: Celebs closing summer in Hamptons blast
A shark♕nado of banking and media celebrities were expected to descend on David Za🐠slav’s inaugural summer party this weekend.
The Discovery Communications CEO, who has a home in East Ham🎀pton, is known for throwing legendary winter parties at his Manhattan home — where boldfaced names from banking, private equity, media and Hollywood mingle an🍨d look swell.
This time, the friendly neighborhood mogul is gꦐathering up his influential buddies for some end-of-summer fireworks — the one💦s that sparkle in the sky, that is — before they light the fire on fall headlines to come.
Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan Chase’sJamie Dimon and Jimmy Leeand media banker Aryeh Bourkoff were invited to sway along to sounds from Julian Marley and T🔯he Uprising while marveling at a giant man-eating shark made out of sand.
Zaslav, who’s heavily associated with all things shark-infested thanks to Discovery’s Shark Week, has invited 🍃a slew of folks to chow down and watch the East Hampton fireworks from the beach. Also on the invitee list: Barry Diller whose company Aereo is being sued by CBS boss Leslie Moonves (also invited, along with his wife, Julie Chen) and CNN boss Jeff Zucker.
Also are expected are the locals. Two grande dames of fashion and home, Donna Karan and Martha Stewart, and music industry titans including manager Irving Azoff, Universal boss Lucian Grainge and Warner Music dealmaker Rob Wiesenthal. Music lover Ron Perelman is also expected, as is Ryan Seacrest and new girlfriend model Dominique Piek.–Claire Atkinson
Let’s eat!
When college football players say they want to share in the NCAA’s enormous $841 million revenue pie, they probably weren’t thinki🦋ng of a literal pie.
But it could be pie that they will get.
As the 2013 college football got under way in earnest last night, word comes that the sport’𒐪s governing body and executives from its largest and wealthiest conferences are weighing change to the rules.
One🅰 of the changes on the table is feeding athletes three meals aꦐ day — up from the current rule that limits the free grub to one meal a day, six days a week.
Smallerꦜ schools might object because they can’t afford it.
“It’s an expensive undertaking,” Bob Bowlsby, the Big 12 Conference commissioner told Bloomberg. “[Smaller schools] might not want to go to three meals a day, but restraining those that do isn’t righ💛t.”
There is also talk — again — of changing the rules to allow schools to pay athletes a stipend🐽, perhaps🦩 as much as $4,000 a year.
Again, smaller schools may push to veto that idea, saying the payments are easy for larger schools like the University of Texas, with its $163 million budget, but impossible for smaller schools with budgets under $15 million.–Post staff
Matchmaking class
Columbia University’s Business School will be getting a lesson from the Hollywood/൲Madison Avenue playbook this fall.
Jarrod Moses, CEO of United Entertainment🉐 Group, has signed on as an adjunct professor. His class, Entertainment Marketing and Crafting of Celebrity Business, will teach young B-School students the art of merging business with celebrity.
Moses’ past deals include uniting Queen Latifah with Covergirl and Rihanna with Doritos.– Jennifer Gould Keil
Better than twerking
In most of the country, the Gold Record “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I., is the song of the summer. But on Wall Street the gold record is the song of the summer.
After taking a beating over the first half of the yღear, the precious metal has had quite the summer romance with investors.
Gold is up 16.2 percent since June 27, spiking to $1395.27 on Friday after closing at $1200.67 j⛄ust after summer started.
Mike McGlone, the director of research at ETF Securities, a provider of commodity-based exchange-traded funds, said the summer comeback is tied to jittery markets — and that is tied in large part to tensions in th🗹e Middle East generally and Syria specifically.
So gold’s comeback may still have some legs