<![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i> - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i> - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> @smitty: To paraphrase Jack from 30 Rock, when you're that rich, you can pay people to look at your teeth.

Rebellitor

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> Steve's best (or worst, depending on your point of view) investment decision was to sell a portion of Blackstone's future profits at the top of the market last summer in an IPO. Perfect timing. It shows that he knew the market was turning, that the credit crunch/subprime mess would wreck his LBO business, and that there would never be a better time to sell a piece of the company. Stock drops by half after the IPO? That just means that the sellers were geniuses and the buyers were chumps.

Sigerson

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> He was worth $8 billion when BX's share price was at 36 or so. Not so much anymore.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> That the Blackstone Group is edging towards bankruptcy appears to be the real reason that this billionaire douche is actually giving all this money away.
I guess Stevie is trying to buy himself some good PR before the bust!

Greasy Thumb Guzik

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> @KiKiRiKi: Freal? That'd be the worst college name since Ezra Stiles.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> Schwarzman is trying to get the Yale Corporation to name a new undergraduate college after him. They won't name a college after anyone living, but Schwarzman wants to name it after his father, who was also named Stephen. He was planning on donating $100m to Yale, but I wonder if the deal fell through and he donated the money to the library instead.

KiKiRiKi

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> he's telling the world he's just beginning to think through his personal charitable giving? and further will do so working under the assumption his Blackstone firm recovers its big losses? ugh! he should've had learned to donate philanthropically when he had more, not less (Blackstone) monies to give. for this guy, too little, too late.

hugomania

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> I guess he couldn't afford teeth whitening??

smitty

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> I would really prefer if he would have donated that money to NYC schools so that we can have a future generation who could, you know, read and actually appreciate those tomes in the library instead of TyPiNg N sPelInG LeiK Dis.

The Real JR

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> Throw a blanket over this scumbags head, tie him up, parachute him over Bangladesh with a ripped-up 10 rupee note in his pocket, let him see how most of the world lives...

if toilets were human they would be Schwarzman

laura_pinkstone

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> @PandoraSpocks: I once ordered this for room service at the Mayflower.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> How to spend three grand on food over a weekend without going out:

Breakfast: 1 cup Cheerios with unicorn milk and a pound of white truffles.
Lunch: send plane to szechuan for the szechuan.
Dinner: Two tins Beluga and an '87 Taittinger followed by a main course of gently roasted Benjamins seasoned with gold dust.

PandoraSpocks

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> @flynnchick: even at Short's standard rate of $5,500/hr, it does seem extravagant.

Also, Ryan, since you began typing this post, Schwarzman's Blackstone stock has dropped to $4 billion.

dotorg greg

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> He spent $3mil on a party and could only get Martin Short?

mavricky

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> 100 million just doesn't buy what it used to, huh?

extremelysnarky

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> The media is at work.

backseat_driver10023

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> oh come on now. that gift had to have been all but signed on feb 11. gifts like that don't happen rarely in less than a month. if anything the library is lucky the gift didn't fall apart after the board members comment, i've seen it happen. not $100 million dollar gifts, but large ones.

chip

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> Where the hell does $100 million end up in the NYC library system? Does anyone read books any more?!? I demand a full accounting!

Tony the Tiger

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> I feel your pain Steve. It's like when the Staruck's barrista holds my change out to me over the tips jar. I nod, she drops it in with nary a smile. As if we earned our 8 billion by thowing our money around. Bet you got someone to pick up pennies you see on the sidewalk. Be strong bro.

Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Billionaire Shamed Into Donation By <i>New Yorker</i>]]> Did they throw in the lions too: Patience and Fortitude?

belltolls

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