Sentences with phrase «mogul turned»

Eric Trump claims his real - estate mogul turned presidential candidate father has paid «a tremendous amount» of federal income taxes over the past 18 years — even though tax experts suspect otherwise.
The governor has not been quite as outspoken a critic of the Queens - born real estate mogul turned presidential candidate as some of his Democratic colleagues in the state, but he was nonetheless not surprised to wind up in Trump's crosshairs.
«I want to vote so Donald Trump won't win,» Hortensia Villegas told reporters of the mogul turned GOP frontrunner.

Not exact matches

It's been a mixed year for Participant Media, the production house owned by tech executive turned media mogul Jeff Skoll.
For 100 years, it's been turning out Fortune 500 CEOs, Hollywood moguls and Wall Street wizards.
To find those traits, we polled a sampling of successful female founders at the event, from Wurwand to an 11 - year - old lemonade entrepreneur who snagged a sweet offer on Shark Tank and an El Salvadoran - immigrant - turned - millionaire - waste management mogul who «turns trash into treasure.»
To many, the belated revelation seemed too good to be true — making the unemotional programmer - turned - mogul look even guiltier.
It's been a banner couple of years for Participant Media, the production house owned by tech executive turned media mogul Jeff Skoll.
Birthed one of the first female media moguls: In 1988, he turned the Playboy empire over to his daughter, Christine - the first time he wasn't in power since the 1953 launch.
Eager to bring on a sharp - elbowed advocate like his former lawyer, the legendary Roy Cohn, Trump turned to Cohen — who was never just an attorney for the real estate mogul and reality TV star.
Nearly a decade after launching Participant Media, a movie production company with a social conscience, Internet - mogul - turned - unconventional - philanthropist Jeff Skoll is still looking to change the world.
Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).
The first president of eBay is betting on millennial audiences to turn him from a web 1.0 dot - com billionaire into a 21st - century entertainment mogul.
The rapper turned business mogul discusses his latest tech venture and his strategy for vetting investment opportunities.
According to Forbes, the music - turned - business - mogul invested $ 1 million into the team, and sold his stake in 2013 with a reported gain of approximately 135 percent.
The Mavens & Moguls team also turned a well - received bylined column on Forbes.com (reaching 8 million readers) into a monthly leadership guest column by one the book's editors who was a C - level executive at Cendant Corp..
-- Hollywood Reporter, «Young Harvey Weinstein: The Making of a Monster,» by Scott Johnson and Stephen Galloway: «Long before he was a Miramax movie mogul, Weinstein was an «artsy - fartsy» student, a savvy concert promoter and, it turns out, a budding abuser and sexual predator.
Toy saga: The Toys R Us bankruptcy took an unexpected turn when L.A. toy mogul Isaac Larian said he was leading a campaign to save more than half of the 735 Toys R Us domestic stores slated for closure.
The movie is the brainchild of retail mogul Mart Green, who heard Steve Saint and Mincaye speak at a conference in 1999 and was so moved by the story that he decided to turn it into a film — two films, actually; the companion documentary, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, released last year.
Two days before the men's event, its flatbottom contained so much slush and crud that it turned into a kind of mogul field.
Several possibilities have been mentioned: NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who hasn't yet shown any interest in running; and Democrat - turned - Republican supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, who gave up his mayoral aspirations in 2009 when Bloomberg successfully pushed to extend term limits and ran again himself.
Last week, John Catsimatidis» campaign made much of the fact that the Democrat - turned - Republican supermarket and oil mogul had landed the support of former Gov. George Pataki for his NYC mayoral bid.
Democrat - turned - Republican supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis is apparently returning to his old Democratic fundraising roots, hosting an event at his Upper East Side apartment on June 22 for Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr..
Cox, the only son of Tricia Nixon Cox and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, was 31 at the time, while Catsimatidis, whose father is supermarket mogul, Democrat - turned - Republican and erstwhile NYC mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, was a 19 - year - old undergrad at NYU (Class of» 12).
Supermarket mogul, fundraiser and (briefly) Democrat - turned - Republican 2009 mayoral contender John Catsimatidis and his wife, Margo, sent out a press release shortly before 8 p.m. this evening to announce the wedding of their daughter, Andrea, to Christopher Nixon Cox, son of state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and his wife, Tricia.
Brad Grey, the University at Buffalo graduate - turned - Hollywood mogul, died this week after a battle with cancer.
New York Republicans at the Clearwater Beach Hilton were treated to a little taste of back home today, with supermarket mogul and Democrat - turned - Republican political donor and activist John Catsimatidis making sure to ship in stacks of The New York Post (along with a sticker letting everyone know where they came from).
ALBANY - Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein's former company received more than $ 400,000 in state tax credits — and one New York lawmaker says it's time to stop rewarding companies that turn a blind eye to sexual harassment.
Other contributors of interest / note: Democrat - turned - Republican supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis gave $ 8,000, Wilson's fellow hedge funder Bruce Kovner and his wife, Suzanne, both maxed out at $ 37,800.
Billionaire supermarket mogul - turned - radio host John Catsimatidis will run for NYC mayor — again.
The real estate mogul - turned reality TV star said that if he's elected he would support hydrofracking and Second Amendment rights.
In an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton, rap and fashion mogul Sean «Diddy» Combs urged the African - American community to «turn up the heat» on Clinton and Trump, because their issues have not been addressed under President Obama's leadership.
Ambassador Robert P. Jackson added that, the US government will advance its Young African Leaders initiative to turn African youth into business and entrepreneurial moguls.
The fund, started by Colorado software mogul Tim Gill in 2005, had turned the art of flipping legislatures into a science.
On the opposite side of the aisle, real estate executive Paul Massey and Jets lineman - turned - minister Rev. Michel Faulkner have already launched their own quixotic bids, while eccentric supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis has hinted for months he will enter the Republican race.
Kat Von D is a tattoo - artist - turned - beauty - mogul, and she's shown on her Instagram how the Lock - It line can cover up tattoos effortlessly — so I was hardly surprised to see this product eliminate all signs of hyperpigmentation and totally transform my skin into a blank canvas.
Despite all of Lucious» actual and spiritual crimes, the title card signaled the rapper - turned - mogul was still the top dog of the series and his company, whether he deserved it or not.
Founded by rapper - turned - mogul Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), Empire Records is a powerhouse in the music industry.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has revealed that the director of «Doubt» turned her down for a role in the film.
Harvey Weinstein's Statements Have Taken a Striking Turn — Megan Garber traces the mogul's words, from denials to apologies to claiming «a different recollection of the events.»
The casual comment might have landed the Benin - born actor in a little hot water because the model - turned - fashion magnate wasn't yet divorced from hip - hop mogul Russell Simmons.
Ant - Man star Michael Pena jokes about his disappointment after TV mogul - turned - actress Oprah Winfrey decided to present each of her castmates and crew members on new film A Wrinkle In Time with a top - of - the - line juice machine as a wrap gift.
The villain is Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), a tech mogul with a lisp, whose plan is to make every cellphone and computer into a transmitter for a mind - altering signal that turns people in its vicinity into merciless killing machines.
The evil corporation, Energyne, is run by a pair of cartoon sibling moguls (Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy, abysmally bad in thankless roles) who watch most of the movie unfold from the computer monitors in their high - rise headquarters, like kids waiting impatiently for their turn at the joystick.
The all - new 2015 McLaren 650S Supercar will make its stunning debut in front of thousands of word weary automotive journalists and media moguls who will no doubt be fantasizing about taking it for a turn around the block.
In the movie, Kevin Kline's father, a corporate mogul who goes around purchasing underperforming companies, decides to buy a zoo, but unless it turns a profit, will close the zoo.
Learning short turns, off - piste, moguls, powder and more difficult terrain.
He reminded his listeners that, like most every self - respecting millionaire mogul these days, he is an avid collector of contemporary art, although he alone turns the pursuit to his singular ends in lyrics that knowingly name - check everyone from Jeff Koons to Jean - Michel Basquiat.
Dean Valentine, the cultural connoisseur and media mogul who's timely collection of contemporary Los Angeles art makes up Second Nature, has apparently left this era behind and turned his attention to neoclassical drawings and conceptualists of an earlier generation.
The music mogul was spotted turning his attention toward art at Swiss Galerie Gmurzynska's booth at Art Basel Miami.
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