Hollywood Hunter

Grace's sudden slap in the face made Laura Gralf a little stunned. She has been pampered for many years. She can't remember when someone did something to herself last time, even if the conflict in the restaurant had just happened. The diners who entered the store separated her from the two punks, and she didn't suffer at all.

Feeling the little star floating in front of her, Laura Gralf forgot to fight back for a while, but still stared at Grace bitterly: "You hit me, I... I want to sue you, I want to fight Elite Cancel the contract."

Grace slapped it out, and suddenly regretted it.

However, hearing the threat from the woman in front of her, Grace did not intend to bear any longer, got out of the car and went to the other side, opened the car door, grabbed Laura Gralf by the hair and pulled her out of the co-pilot and threw her on the road. Get on, and go straight away after getting in the car again.

Returning to the company, because there was no helicopter to pick him up this time, and worried about traffic jams during off-duty hours, Grace would leave work early and rush to Greenwich until 4:30 in the afternoon.

The agreed time is six o'clock in the afternoon.

Grace arrived half an hour early, not too early. After spending twenty minutes at a coffee shop in downtown Greenwich, she set off again. When I came to the gate of the manor last time, I was stopped by the security guard, and it took a while before I was allowed to enter.

Simon hadn't returned yet, and she was greeted by an Indian girl named Aaliyah.

Still taken to the last living room, Zoe was there, and after entering the villa, she found out that a party was being prepared here, and a group of beautiful girls with obvious potential for development in the fashion circle shuttled in the villa. Being busy, even made Grace have some inexplicable low self-esteem.

Simon returned from outside at half past six, and her wife Janet Westeros.

Suddenly he was a little guilty.

However, Janet Westero did not show up until Simon walked into the living room more than ten minutes later.

In the living room, Simon sat down casually on the sofa and looked at her with a smile: "Did you beat Laura at noon?"

He didn't expect a man to talk about this suddenly, and he didn't expect to know so soon.

Grace was nasty for a while, not knowing how to explain it.

It's just that, um, the man doesn't seem to be very angry, which relaxes her a lot.

Seeing Grace did not answer, Simon did not follow up and said: "A said you have something to talk to me, right?"

There was a buzzing in my head. Fortunately, I did not forget the excuse I thought of before: "Simon, I just want to ask, what should I do next? Regarding the three of them, I'm sorry about the noon matter, but I really want to I can't control it."

Simon shook his head slightly and said, "Actually, you did a good job at noon. By the way, you rented the house they lived in. According to your idea some time ago, if you can't stand it, you can drive them to live in the basement tomorrow. Up."

Upon hearing this, Grace looked at the man with a strange expression on her face.

Simon did not hide anything, shrugged, and said: "Every day someone sorts out their three things to me, just as a pastime." With that said, Simon thought for a while, summoned Zoe, and said a few words, babyface The girl quickly brought a booklet over.

Grace pretended to look inadvertently. Judging from the picture, this should be some real estate information.

Simon picked it up for a moment, stopped on one of the pages and circled his fingers, and handed it to Zoe again, but he said to Grace: "Tomorrow someone will give you a set of keys to the real estate. Regarding those three, express Let them move in when you are done, and if you are not obedient, you can drive them out. You don’t need to be too concerned about affecting your work."

Grace nodded.

Although I don't know what the real estate given by the man looks like, the real estate that I want to buy in Westeros, no matter how common it is, it is at least more luxurious than the house where their family lives now.

It was...too wasteful to live with the mother and daughter for three.

Thinking of this, Grace was about to continue speaking. Girl A walked in and said something in a low voice in the ear of the man. Grace only heard one word, Hirst.

Simon heard that Girl A finished speaking, but just nodded slightly and said to Grace: "That's it, yes, there will be a party later, if there are no other arrangements at night, you can stay."

At breakfast, Grace promised her son to go to the movie with the family tonight. Before she could decline Simon's invitation, the man got up and walked out.

Watching the man leave, Grace looked at the baby-faced girl who hadn't been standing by her side, thought for a while and asked, "Zoe, what is the party today?"

"A party in the financial circle on Wall Street, you know, Daenerys Entertainment will be listed next week," Zoe explained, and said: "Ms. Spoult, the boss just was polite, if you have other If arranged, it’s okay to leave early."

A gathering in the financial circle of Wall Street!

Grace's heart jumped, thinking of her husband's recent difficulties.

in case……

After hesitating, Grace asked carefully: "Zoe, me, can I invite another person over?" Without waiting for Zoe to wonder, Grace added: "It's my husband who happens to be working on Wall Street. First Boston."

Zoe took a look at her, and the face of the baby who always made people want to pinch suddenly became a little more cunning: "The guest list was drawn up by A, Ms. Spoult, if you really intend to, You can discuss it with A, but I think she will definitely agree."

Thinking of the indifferent attitude of Girl A towards herself in the few contacts, and looking at the sly expression on Zoe's face at this time, Grace quickly understood what.

The man is not interested in himself, at least, he has not reached the interest in going to bed.

So Grace didn't expect anything at all.

For so many years, even though she has long been plain and dull, she still has feelings for her husband. Now that she has the opportunity, it is only natural to turn to her family.

Man is a very complicated creature.

Sometimes, even if the body and mind are all derailed, it doesn't mean that you don't care about other things.

Seeing Grace had no objection, Zoe blinked at her: "Then, follow me."

The two left the living room, Zoe and the passing girl asked a few words, and soon found Girl A who was instructing the chef to prepare party dishes in the kitchen.

Grace spoke about her request, and Girl A really agreed.

With permission, Grace didn't care about other things for the time being, and called her husband, asking him to put down everything in his hands and come to Greenwich as soon as possible. As for taking the kids to a movie at night, of course it doesn’t matter.

Summer is long, so the party is scheduled to start at eight o'clock.

A full hour before the party, Simon was in the villa study with Randolph Hirst, the current speaker of the Hearst family, and the lawyers of both parties to discuss the final details of the settlement between the two parties.

After the last attempt to sell assets to alleviate the family business crisis was disturbed by Simon, the Hurst family realized that they wanted to overcome this hurdle. In any case, they could not bypass the Westeros system. It continued to delay for some time. The possible methods have been exhausted, and finally decided to compromise and fully agreed to Simon's request.

There have been several discussions in advance, and the two sides only confirmed some details this time.

or.

More precisely, it is some details that the Hirst family cares very much about.

In the final agreement, the Hearst family sold a 20% stake in the ESPN television network held by the Hearst Group to Westeros at a price of $1, and paid a total of $370 million in compensation for six lawsuits. In exchange, the Westeros system will no longer have any targeted actions against the Hurst family in the future.

After the formal signing of the agreement, the Hearst family can publish information on the family media in order to convey certain information to the media and the public.

On the other hand, the Hearst family also promised that in the future, all media under the Hearst Group will not have any news that slanders the Westeros system, and the Hearst family will not support politicians to promote any possible targeting of Westeros. System of government bills.

The basic core is that the well water of the two sides will not violate the river water.

However, the settlement agreement limits the Hurst family far beyond the responsibilities that the Westeros system needs to bear.

When night fell completely, Simon and Randolph Hirst signed their names on several contracts respectively. The Westeros system and the Hirst family lasted for several months, either explicitly or implicitly. The entanglement, at least on the surface, ends here.

The two parties left the study together, and the party had begun.

Randolph Hirst didn't have any plans to show up in front of others. Even though this could bring some benefits to the Hirst family, he still quietly left through the side door of the villa.

When Hirst left, Simon said to James Rebold, who had just attended the meeting: "Jim, you send someone a message to the ABC side privately and let them buy the shares of the Hearst family's AE television network."

AE Television Network is another basic cable network operated by the Hearst family and Metropolitan ABC Group, focusing on fashion, lifestyle, and popular science. Each party holds 50% of its shares, and its subsidiaries include Lifetime, History Channel and other television stations.

After the two parties settled, the Hearst family still needs to sell assets if they want to compensate the huge sum of US$370 million in six lawsuits.

The long-term fixed mindset based on paper media will to a large extent lead the Hearst Group to prioritize the sale of its own ‘non-core assets’. If ABC takes the initiative again, it will easily be able to take back all the shares of AE Television Network.

Westeros acquired 20% of ESPN's shares and allowed ABC to buy back the shares of AE Television Network. The Hearst family's layout in the TV field is very small, and the rest are basically newspaper assets.

After months of conflict, coupled with a series of negative news during this period, a large number of paper media owned by the Hearst family have actually been greatly injured. Under the general trend of rapid decline of paper media in the future, none of them will survive. Will be too much. At that time, the fate of the Hearst family can be imagined.

James nodded and understood Simon's intentions.

The two walked across the corridor to the hall together, but James quickly talked about another thing: "Simon, since Jenny is no longer working now, maybe you can have more children."

Regarding the relationship between their daughter and Simon, the Rebolds had already acquiesced very early, especially when the two had a child, and the news was completely disclosed some time ago, and the Rebalds completely stopped considering other things.

However, parents always think more about their children.

Jennifer and Simon only have one daughter, which is a bit wrong in the eyes of the Rebalds.

Both the East and the West are more or less patriarchal in their bones, and boys’ inheritance rights are generally more valued. Take the Hirst family just now, the six children of William Hirst at the time After Hirst's death, most of his assets were left to his sons. Compared with the share of assets acquired by his younger elders, the youngest daughter was almost equivalent to leaving the house.

Simon is always a little embarrassed when Rebold mentions this kind of thing: "Jim, it depends on what Jenny means, I'm fine."

James took it for granted: "Jenny definitely wants to have more children. She likes children very much."

Simon had no choice but to nod: "Well, I'll take the time to talk with Jenny."

James was satisfied with Simon's attitude, smiled and raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder.

Simon was helpless.

Why does it seem to have such a ‘bad’ habit?

I quickly changed the topic and asked about the female assistant's younger brother Philip Rebold. His daughter has already been cheaper for others, and James pays more attention to his son. Philip Rebold completed his undergraduate degree in economics at Yale last year, and went directly to law school according to James' arrangement to continue his three-year JD.

James was really interested in this topic, and he was more pleased that Simon could take the initiative to mention Philip.

The two came to the villa lobby as they walked and chatted, where people were already crowded.

Although it was a gathering in the financial circle, some senior leaders of the Westeros system in New York were also invited. James saw the figure of his old friend Robert Iger and greeted Simon and walked over.

Simon also smiled and greeted George Soros who came to join in the fun tonight.

This year is 1994. Once in history, after the first battle against the British pound in 1992 became famous, Soros' second battle was directed towards Mexico.

In Simon's memory, the Mexican currency crisis broke out around the end of October.

For Mexico, Simon has no scruples like Europe or Asia.

Although the Westeros system still won't join in the fun this time, it might as well make some arrangements in private, of which $200 million has been invested in Soros' Quantum Fund.

Moreover, in most people’s minds, Soros is just a hedge fund predator. In fact, this is not the case. Several funds under his name are also involved in stocks, bonds and venture capital. This time they also subscribed for 2 million Daenerys shares. Entertainment group stocks.

Simon and Soros talked for a while about the Mexican currency. The two had just finished their conversation. Grace Spoort, who changed into a black dress, walked over with a slightly thin middle-aged man. .

Coming to the front, Grace took the initiative to introduce: "Simon, this is my husband, Bill. He works in First Boston."

Simon noticed the slight guilty flicker in the woman's eyes when she talked to him, but just smiled and reached out and shook hands with the obviously restrained middle-aged man in front of him: "Hello, Bill."

"Mr. Westeros, nice to meet you."

"Just call me Simon."

"Oh, of course, Simon."

Bill Spurt held the palm of Simon's stretched out hand, and said flatly, until he noticed that the other party pulled his arm back slightly, and then quickly let go.

Suddenly he was called to Greenwich by his wife, this mansion belonging to Simon Westeros. Looking at a group of Wall Street bigwigs who can only look up on weekdays, Bill Spoult is still a little like falling into the clouds, I don’t know if he is. Dreaming, I have quietly pinched myself several times in private.