American Scandal King

Chapter 156 A Message from Harvey Weinstein

On this day, Ian finally achieved his goal.

Through a series of acquisitions, Ian spent about 8 million to acquire 26% of Lino Bank's shares. Combined with Gaskell's shares, the two of them combined hold more than 51% of the shares.

With such a large stake, the board of directors naturally had no hope of getting rid of him. The company was reorganized and Gaskell resumed his position as chairman of Lino Bank.

On his first day back in office, Gaskell led the board of directors in passing a resolution: Lino Bank will increase its lending line to the Carl Group.

Starting in 2001, US bank interest rates began to gradually decline, but Gaskell would continue to give preferential treatment to the Carl Group on this basis.

This is clearly helping Ian, but it is also the authority of the major shareholder. Besides, the Carl Group is doing well, so the preferential interest rate is normal.

Ian's reward to Gaskell was: all the dividends from his shares in Lino Bank would be given to Gaskell - after all, the money the old man earned would be left to my son in the future.

This also means that this acquisition is a win-win situation for Ian and Gaskell. The former received huge financial support, while the latter obtained sufficient dividend profits.

But the unlucky ones are the other shareholders of Lino Bank, because they will soon find out that Ian will be the main source of Lino Bank's future loans.

In addition, Ian will help Lino continue to grow, but the bank will become bigger and bigger, the rate of return will become lower and lower, and the dividends will become less and less - using the position of chairman and major shareholder to harm small shareholders is the daily operation of many companies.

This is also a powerful response by Ian and Gaskell to the shareholders of Linuo Bank.

If you can't bear it, sell it at a low price, then Gaskell will buy it and then raise funds.

Defrauding shareholders through continuous financing, repurchase, refinancing and repurchase is also a common way of defrauding money.

Besides, don’t you have a good friend like Madoff?
Invest more in him and he will help you make money.

With Lino Bank as his wallet, Ian no longer has to worry about funding issues. He can expand freely and take over all the companies he likes.

The only regret is that economic news has too small an audience and failed to cause much stir.

Most people don’t realize yet that Ian Carr has officially stepped into the financial field.

………………

"cheers!"

In the luxurious reception room of the Hilton Hotel, Ian and Gaskelbenth, Lena, Howard Stringer from Sony, Bertram Leake from Touchstone Pictures, Harvey Weinstein from Miramax and others were toasting to celebrate.

A battle in the financial circle has also attracted some Hollywood bigwigs to participate, mainly to congratulate Ian on his victory.

The most important thing in doing business is making friends, and banquets are now a normal part of Ian's life... Sometimes he feels like Batman, holding banquets at dusk, and then putting on a black cloak after the banquet, walking in the splendor of the dark night, hunting for scenes of filth and darkness.

This made Ian feel inexplicably excited!

At this moment, Harvey Weinstein's face was full of flattery: "No one doubts now that you are an excellent businessman, Mr. Carl."

Although I despise this fat, big-eared Jewish nymphomaniac pig, he is still useful as a dog.

When doing business, don't be too morally obsessed. In most cases, good people are not as useful as those guys who are good at cheating!

Ian said with a smile: "Next, I plan to make some investments in Hollywood. Harvey, I may need you to help me with some connections."

Harvey Weinstein nodded repeatedly: "That's no problem."

Over the past six months, Harvey Weinstein has been adapting to his role.

To his relief, Ian's request was not too difficult. It was nothing more than asking him to provide some clues about Hollywood celebrity anecdotes, and then to discuss some publicity and promotion cooperation and investment issues.

The key is that Ian's media business is growing rapidly—a contract priced based on sales of one million might actually reach 1.2 million two months later, meaning advertisers won't lose out. While Hollywood's promotional efforts are often forced upon them, they're overjoyed once they realize they're profitable.

This obviously weakened Harvey Weinstein's inner resistance.

At this moment, he leaned over and whispered, "Julia Roberts has returned to Hollywood. There's a story about her... She has a lover."

Ian raised his brows slightly.

Julia Roberts is a current superstar in Hollywood and the first female actor to enter the club of tens of millions of dollars in salary.

This big-mouthed beauty is famous for her acting skills and romanticism, and she has a lot of scandals in her private life.

The most famous incident is the case of running away from marriage.

In 91, Julia dated Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland (the male lead in 24). Sutherland had just divorced at the time, and the two got engaged not long after they met!
Unexpectedly, a month before the wedding, Roberts met singer Lyle Lovett on the set of the movie "The Player". Lyle played a good guitar and impressed Julia Roberts. The two had a relationship outside the crew, and then Julia suddenly disappeared three days before the wedding.

It’s so easy for musical geniuses to pick up girls, even poor guys can sleep with beautiful women.

So what are you waiting for, poor people? Go learn music.

The key point is that during this period, Julia Roberts was also dating actor Jason Patric.

Of course, her fiancé Sutherland was also not idle, and was accused of having an affair with a dancer named Amanda Rice.

Anyway, everyone knows how to have fun.

What’s interesting is that Julia later starred in “Runaway Bride”, which is a true portrayal of her life?

Julia Roberts has done everything from cheating on her husband to having an affair with a mistress to dating multiple people at the same time. It is said that she was the one who uttered the famous Hollywood line, "Who do I have to sleep with to get the role?"

For a woman like this, it is not surprising to have erotic affairs, but she is a star after all, so it is still worth appreciating when it is exposed - especially since her left eye is about to be upgraded.

So Ian asked with a smile: "With whom?"

Harvey Weinstein shrugged: "A guy called Danny Moda, a photographer."

Ian: "..."

Danny Moda, a famous Hollywood photographer.

In the original time and space, he was Julia Roberts' next husband. They met on the set of "The Mexican" in 00 and got married in 02.

However, there were differences in this time and space, and the start of the Mexican film was delayed until last year.

Moreover, Julia Roberts' role was replaced by Kate Beckinsale - because she became famous in advance due to the Charlie Mills incident and her salary was cheap, Kate Beckinsale was pulled in to replace Julia Roberts and play opposite Brad Pitt.

Yes, it was the one where Kate and Brad Pitt discussed the script when Madonna was exposed last year.

Julia Roberts missed the opportunity to meet Danny Moda and found a new love, a stylist named Kimmel, with whom she has a good relationship.

But this did not affect her romantic nature and she continued to have secret affairs.

What's speechless is that the person she was having an affair with this time was Moda, her husband from her past life.

It turns out that the fate between people is so wonderful!
Ian whispered, "Address."

Harvey smiled and handed Ian a note.

(End of this chapter)