When she woke up in the morning, she secretly glanced at the man next to her who was being dressed by two waitresses. Rachel Weisz had some small self-doubts. Could she not escape
Still can't run away with Kate.
After the man left the bedroom, Rachel, who had been pretending to be asleep, sat up and pushed Kate Beckinsale on the other side. Kate looked quite content and rosy in her sleep, feeling her push. , just hummed a few times, turned around and continued to sleep.
Very relaxed.
Rachel could only continue to sleep, because this was a mansion owned by that man. It was in the Hollywood Hills east of Beverly. It was the one with a certain Hollywood sign. She didn't know where it was.
Anyway, I am worried about getting up alone, being met by a man, and being asked to do morning exercises again.
Some guy is just a beast.
Um.
After about half an hour, he finally had to get up. As if he was guarded by the maids beside him, they noticed the movement and took the initiative to come in. Rachel said no, but they insisted. Then because of some of their actions, they understood , and was watched taking certain pills.
Rachel was a little angry and aggrieved, but seeing Kate's calm look, she still accepted it.
Then she changed her clothes and came to the living room. Rachel had originally made up her mind to protest to him in person, but she didn't expect that there were other people there, two women.
So I felt even more angry. I was with the two of them last night... It was still breakfast time.
In fact, the two new girls also know each other, Lena Kane and Annika Settle, who have been quite popular in Hollywood in the past two years.
After all, we are all in this circle, and we all know each other well about the relationship between the two girls and a certain man.
Kate did not have a fit and greeted the two girls warmly. Rachel felt that she should be more polite, so she could only greet them together. Of course, you still have to show some indifference.
Everyone sat down, chatted for a while, and learned that the man was discussing a new thriller idea with two girls.
It's called "Terror Cruise".
While eating breakfast, Rachel continued to listen and roughly understood that this was another typical Hollywood story about playing with time. However, if you listen carefully, it turns out that it is a poor single mother who is trapped in repeated reincarnations. Because of a car accident, she does not want to believe that her son is dead, so her soul repeats a certain day over and over again. In addition, there is also the factor of being unwilling to leave and suffer the punishment of death.
Just like Sisyphus in the Greek mythology who repeatedly pushed the stone to the top of the mountain and then dropped it again.
The more Rachel listened, the more interested she became. As an actor with great artistic pursuits, she felt that this kind of film was at least much better than those nutritious popcorn. It was worth it even if she had to reduce her salary to star in it.
So I hesitated a few times, and when I was about to speak, Kate had already spoken next to me, and in a few words, she accepted the role.
Rachel didn't fight anymore, some grievances surfaced in her heart again, and then she vented her anger on a certain man.
asshole.
Simon is also a disaster.
All right.
He had slept with others, so of course he was not innocent, so after breakfast and saying goodbye to the four girls, when he saw Rachel rejecting his hug and being teased by Kate's gaze, he just smiled without forcing it.
At this breakfast, the story of "Terror Cruise" was left to Lena and Annika. Kate is willing to participate, which is naturally better. As the actress of "Charlie's Angels", Kate is popular enough and beautiful. She is better than Mei in the original version. Lisa George is much better. As for the original girl he met last time, Simon could only regret that her reputation was too low.
In fact, we can also see Rachel's eagerness to try. Because of the success of "Titanic", Rachel's reputation is naturally much higher than Kate's. However, since she did not take the initiative to speak, Kate took the lead again, and Li Na and Na didn't have any objections. Simon couldn't say anything anymore. He slept next to her last night, so it's not good to be biased.
The schedule has basically been set for next year’s Halloween.
However, after all, it is a bit brain-burning, and Simon does not have high expectations for the box office. Therefore, even if Kate participates, Simon still requires the cost to be controlled within 25 million US dollars, and the better box office results he expects are only 50 million. The main reason is Depends on subsequent video tapes and other peripherals.
After saying goodbye to several girls, Simon rushed to the airport and took his Boeing 767 to fly to the east coast.
This time the destination is Boston, first visiting two Ukrainian women and two little guys.
It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Boston, East Coast time. The summer was long. I simply settled in Ulyana's villa and stayed here for the night. Then I went to play golf with Maria's three boys. until evening.
In the evening there is a cocktail party.
It was held at Harvard University in the name of a foundation run by two women. It was ostensibly a charity project for students in Yugoslavia that had just experienced war. However, it was actually a gathering of celebrities from all walks of life in Massachusetts.
Maria is a more homely type, so this kind of thing is taken care of by Ulyanna, who is good at dancing and happens to like these things. Unknowingly, around Boston, Ulyanna has also created a family in Massachusetts. Not a small Weijia network.
It is similar to Chen Qing and Lin Su in China.
However, Simon did this deliberately. After all, if the women who get together are ambitious, who will take care of the children? Or, they all belong to the home-bound type, and they teach their children to be homebodies and homebodies, which won’t work anyway.
Speaking of this, Simon was inevitably a little upset.
It has already entered October, and the six women after the absurd incident at the beginning of the year are expected to give birth after mid-October. By then, they will be born one after another, four in a row, five in a row, and six in a row.
Thinking about it makes me a little confused.
Well, you have to bear the cause and the fruits you planted.
Furthermore, Simon came over this time and discussed something with Maria, asking her to take care of one more child.
The Heidi Klum one.
The woman didn't object.
Simon also made the decision after careful consideration.
First of all, over at Dumei Point, Janet said directly, no. It wasn't anything else, she just felt that if her mother was so stupid, the little guy she would give birth to might not be smart either, and she couldn't stand it.
This reason…
Well, Simon actually didn't think about putting it in Dume Point Manor. After careful consideration, Maria was the most suitable.
The two little boys of the two women here, Ullyana's Michael and Maria's Daniel, are already over two years old. The women have taught their children very well, no less than those at Cape Dume Manor, and Simon is also Don't think about anything else.
I stayed one night in Boston with two women and flew to New York early the next morning.
After getting off the plane, we went directly to the Cersei Capital headquarters in midtown Manhattan to attend the 1999 third quarter summary meeting here.
The overall situation of Cersei Capital has always been controlled by Janet. Simon knows some general trends and has accumulated a lot of professional knowledge over the years. But going deeper, he will definitely not be able to control it, and professional matters still have to be handed over. Leave it to the professionals.
First up is Cersei Fund Management.
In the past quarter, or in other words, for most of the past half year, Cersei Fund Management Company, which is still mainly responsible for financial hedging business, has made very rich profits. This is mainly due to the continued sharp decline in the official launch of the euro this year and the increase in oil prices in the first half of the year. The huge volatility in the Kosovo war and the renewed financial turmoil in Latin America last month.
Generally speaking, hedge funds must make profits and lose money. After all, it is inevitable to bet in the wrong direction.
Of course, the Cersei Fund Management Company team will inevitably stumble, but for some key projects or nodes, they will basically not miss out, such as the continued downward trend of the euro, the sudden collapse of oil prices in the first half of the year, and the financial shock in Brazil. .
As for the reason, Cersei Fund Management Company relies on the Westeros system. At present, the Westeros system is completely a player-level existence that can influence the trend of the chessboard, and is no longer a chess piece, so of course it has enough information channels to make certain accurate judgments.
That's right, formally speaking, it's a shady story.
Whenever all kinds of bad news broke out in the Chinese stock market, it was inevitable to hear what would happen if it were the United States or the Western stock market. This kind of thing would definitely not happen to other people. Simon initially agreed.
However, after coming to this world for so many years, if he can no longer understand certain things and no matter how others say it, he will not be able to reach his current position.
Wherever there are people, there is a common practice. —Lu Xun.
In short, having enough resources but not using them would be a fool.
Not only that, compared to some unscrupulous methods, the Cersei Capital team can achieve perfect compliance and will not leave any room for criticism.
No need.
I really don't like those wild little money here.
Then there's Apollo Management.
Big deals have been frequent in recent years. Whether it is acquisitions and expansions in various fields around the world within the Westeros system, or whether Exxon and Mobil, which have been disconnected for a long time, finally merged again, Apollo Management has participated. .
Not only did they assist in the merger, they also used their own capital to obtain low-priced equity in the transaction so that they could cash in and make profits in the future.
At the moment, Apollo Management Company is secretly planning two major acquisitions.
The first one is my own.
The overall scale of Scoop's acquisition of Qualcomm is smaller, US$60 billion.
It is currently in the planning stage before launching the acquisition, which is expected to be officially launched in November.
The other one is closely related to the Westeros system. After all, not only Black Rock, but also the Westeros Company headquarters, has a large direct shareholding in both companies, and it is another hundred billion US dollars. of great mergers.
Pfizer plans to acquire Warner-Lambert.
As the U.S. stock market continues to rise, Pfizer's market value has recently reached US$130 billion, and Warner-Lambert's market value has also surged to more than US$80 billion. The combined market value of the two companies has exceeded US$210 billion.
As long as this merger can be completed, the commission alone will be enough to increase Apollo Management's financial profit figures by a large margin.
Similarly, the Apollo team will not be limited to serving as M&A advisors, but will still personally use capital to participate.
The preliminary work for this acquisition has been completed, and within the next week, Pfizer will officially launch secret negotiations with Warner-Lambert.
We are very confident about these two major mergers and acquisitions.
Because the biggest obstacle is Washington. As Clinton has passed all the important thresholds in his two presidential careers, there is no need to be so cautious about mergers and acquisitions of large companies that may involve monopolies.
What's more, the relationship between the White House and the Westeros system has always been good.
As for Congress, it was originally a force of checks and balances. However, at present, both houses of Congress are controlled by the Republican Party. Not to mention that the Republican Party itself has a tendency to relax corporate regulations. After several congressional elections in the past, the Westeros system has exerted more influence on Congress. The influence is actually deeper than that of the White House.
Speaking of which, even if we don’t mention this time and space, in the past history, after the Microsoft antitrust case in 2000 actually ended with the failure of the Washington authorities, in the new century, the US government has basically restricted the expansion of big capital. Nothing substantive has been done.
The inner meaning is that capitalism, after the end of the Cold War, no longer has the confrontation between East and West, and it truly belongs to capitalism.
Therefore, Simon could not help but think of a certain saying from the past.
Roughly speaking, the West is the largest opposition party in China, constantly pushing China to continue to progress. Similarly, before the 1990s, the Soviet Union could also be said to be the largest opposition party in the West. In other words, the two camps were each other's opposition parties.
In the end, after one side fell apart, the other side lost its constraints and began to run freely, running towards unknown distances in just thirty years.
Finally, there is Blackrock Asset Management.
It is expected that before the end of this year, the total assets managed by Black Rock Asset Management Company worldwide will reach US$3 trillion. This alone shows Black Rock’s status on Wall Street today.
Even if many of the assets are just affiliated, even compared to the other two brother companies, due to its own size, it is not easy for Black Rock to make big moves, or there may not be any big moves at all, and it just relies on the instructions of customers to move in the stock market. You can earn a small amount of commission from routine buying and selling in the bond market, but compared to the other two brother companies, the impact that Black Rock can have on the U.S. and even the global economy is more important.
For example, if Simon needs a stock market crash in the United States now, then using the power of Black Rock, a stock market crash can occur in the United States.
Of course, this is just a hypothetical.
Just like nuclear weapons, they will definitely not be used unless absolutely necessary. And once used, it will destroy the heaven and the earth.
Simon has never forgotten how dazzling his current wealth is in the eyes of many people.
However, Simon also knew that he could not voluntarily give up everything he had now. If someone wants to rob it by force, in the most extreme case, Simon will not mind dragging the entire world economy to destruction.
Even if the two suffixes of 'economic' are actually somewhat redundant, it won't matter.
Outside of work, I am still surrounded by a group of women and children.
At noon, I had dinner with Grace and a certain little guy, and in the evening I went to Eileen Lauder's place. The woman dragged her to socialize in the Upper East Side circles until late at night.
The weekend is over and the next day is Monday.
The schedule remains as usual.
Not to mention the other vases, there are six other women here with big bellies, and they are all about to give birth. Simon, who is about to be a father, always has to show his face in front of each woman.