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When Money Is King: How Revlon's Ron Perelman Mastered the World of Finance to Create One of America's Greatest Business Empires, and Found Glamour, Beauty, and the High Life in the Bargain
While the financial community watches his every move with interest, the rest of the world reads about his princely lifestyle in the gossip columns. Ronald Perelman has wooed and wed society's most dazzling beauties, including Hollywood activist Patricia Duff and gossip queen Claudia Cohen. He owns palatial estates in Manhattan, Palm Beach, Easthampton, and Bel Air, as well as an impressive art collection, a fleet of cars, and two G-4 jet planes. He hobnobs with society's elite, from the President and First Lady of the United States to a galaxy of Hollywood stars.
How he has done it all is a well-kept secret - until now. When Money Is King reveals strategies Perelman used to build his multibillion-dollar empire, how he earned the nickname "the billionaire bulldog" now favored by students of business, and intricate details of the Revlon takeover and Perelman's successful turnaround of the company. Also learn about his three marriages, the deep faith that bolsters him, his donations to major cultural and medical institutions, and the trial that got him voted among Spy magazine's "top 100 worst people of 1995."
How he has done it all is a well-kept secret - until now. When Money Is King reveals strategies Perelman used to build his multibillion-dollar empire, how he earned the nickname "the billionaire bulldog" now favored by students of business, and intricate details of the Revlon takeover and Perelman's successful turnaround of the company. Also learn about his three marriages, the deep faith that bolsters him, his donations to major cultural and medical institutions, and the trial that got him voted among Spy magazine's "top 100 worst people of 1995."
286 pages, Hardcover
Published October 1, 1996
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Richard Hack
43 books17 followersBorn in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, Hack attended the Lynnewood School, and Haverford High School, on the Main Line in suburban Philadelphia. He later attended Pennsylvania State University and holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Design.
Hack moved to Los Angeles where he was hired by TV Guide magazine as its West Coast national programming editor. By the early 80s, Hack began writing the TeleVisions column for the daily entertainment trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter. During the next decade, Hack was instrumental in propelling the paper into a dominant position over rival Variety, and often appeared on The Tonight Show and Today reporting on Hollywood.
During the same period, he was a frequent guest on Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, Tomorrow, Entertainment Tonight, and Access Hollywood.
In 1990, Hack left The Hollywood Reporter to become Vice President of Creative Affairs at Dove Audio and Entertainment, a production company that specialized in miniseries and books-on-tape. While at Dove, Hack adapted Sidney Sheldon’s The Sands of Time, Memories of Midnight, and The Stars Shine Down as mini-series, which he also produced, and wrote his first book, Next to Hughes with Robert Maheu.[2]
Since leaving Dove, Hack moved to a horse ranch in Maui, where he stabled polo ponies, and established a home on the Intracoastal in Florida.
His bestseller Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters was released on September 11, 2001. Hack was being interviewed live on the Today show by Matt Lauer when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center.
His subsequent book, PuppetMaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover was the basis of the 2011 film "J Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood.
Hack moved to Los Angeles where he was hired by TV Guide magazine as its West Coast national programming editor. By the early 80s, Hack began writing the TeleVisions column for the daily entertainment trade paper, The Hollywood Reporter. During the next decade, Hack was instrumental in propelling the paper into a dominant position over rival Variety, and often appeared on The Tonight Show and Today reporting on Hollywood.
During the same period, he was a frequent guest on Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, Tomorrow, Entertainment Tonight, and Access Hollywood.
In 1990, Hack left The Hollywood Reporter to become Vice President of Creative Affairs at Dove Audio and Entertainment, a production company that specialized in miniseries and books-on-tape. While at Dove, Hack adapted Sidney Sheldon’s The Sands of Time, Memories of Midnight, and The Stars Shine Down as mini-series, which he also produced, and wrote his first book, Next to Hughes with Robert Maheu.[2]
Since leaving Dove, Hack moved to a horse ranch in Maui, where he stabled polo ponies, and established a home on the Intracoastal in Florida.
His bestseller Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters was released on September 11, 2001. Hack was being interviewed live on the Today show by Matt Lauer when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center.
His subsequent book, PuppetMaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover was the basis of the 2011 film "J Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood.
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June 22, 2020
Covers the life of financier Ronald Perelman in the 80s up until the mid 90s. A lot of gossips about his private life as well as disputes with contractors on the many renovations Perelman did on several of his many houses. The most interesting part of the book is definitely the many takeover battles Perelman was involved in during these two decades; Revlon, Marvel Comics, Technicolor, just to mention a few. This book is well worth reading, but the gossip at times is almost tabloid-like.
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