After leaving the Murdoch family's high-rise mansion, Jerry Hall held Simon's arm and entered the elevator. He glanced at the file bag the man held casually in his hand. He wisely did not ask questions, but said: "Simon, why don't you go tonight?" Where am I?"
Simon was thinking about what was in the portfolio and was a little confused when he heard this: "Huh?"
Jerry Hall said nonchalantly: "The house I just looked for is in Greenwich. It's a very nice apartment."
I don't know what the woman's little calculation was, and Simon didn't bother to guess. He shook his head and said, "Forget it, I don't want to be photographed by a tabloid reporter."
Although the growing wealth and power have kept most paparazzi away from Simon, no one can guarantee that there will be guys who want to make some big gossip. Simon's apartments around the world are very private, and he takes women with him. There was no risk of being discovered when he returned. It was hard to say what the situation was like in Jerry Hall's apartment. If he had to park on the side of the road, he would probably be captured.
Jerry Hall did not give up, and understood Simon's concerns, and said, "No, there is a dedicated underground parking lot, and we can go upstairs directly from the private elevator."
Feeling the woman's hopeful tone, Simon became a little curious and simply nodded in agreement.
Hearing Simon's promise, Jerry Hall hugged his arm tightly, and even breathed and whispered something into the man's ear.
The elevator soon arrived at the underground parking lot of the building, where the driver was already waiting. After the two got on the car, Simon motioned to Jerry Hall to tell the driver the address, and he lowered his head to open the file bag handed over by Murdoch.
There are many items in the portfolio, including manuscripts, photos, and a reporter-specific recorder.
Jerry Hall explained his address to the driver and pretended to look at the information in the man's hand casually. A line of words that caught his eye made the woman have a strange expression.
"The mysterious Lolita army."
This is probably the 'Girl from Russia' that Murdoch just mentioned.
But, when did the little man next to me become interested in the little girl
This is not normal.
While thinking, Jerry Hall quickly thought of another thing, the murder case of superstar Michael Jackson that shocked the world in the second half of last year. Although Jackson has reached a settlement with the parties involved, the aftermath of this incident is still continuing.
If another similar case breaks out at this time, and if Simon Westeros is also involved, the excitement will be huge.
In fact, as early as last year when Simon started to select Wei family maids, the Jackson rape case was also in the spotlight. Janet joked at the time that Simon might get into trouble like Michael Jackson, because this fact is too easy to be exposed. Someone took advantage of it.
Simon therefore prepared very detailed precautions.
The most critical measure is that all two hundred girls are arranged outside the United States. In addition, there is a strict surveillance system. Every hour of every day of the girls, whether in the apartment or at school, various actions will be recorded through surveillance cameras. material. Therefore, if he really encounters accusations similar to Michael Jackson's, Simon is looking forward to some people performing to their heart's content.
However, the information in hand cannot be underestimated.
A press release at the core of the information called "The Mysterious Lolita Army" did not mention Simon's name, but only used a series of photos and interview evidence to question the situation of a group of Russian girls in a villa in Chelsea, London.
The article claimed that the girls were under strict surveillance, were not allowed to have contact with outsiders, and were not allowed to get close to them. They also had to undergo various high-intensity training every day, and their behavior was very suspicious. Therefore, the London authorities were asked to investigate this to prevent the girls. They may be experiencing human trafficking, or a hostile country is training agents.
Obviously, this report is just an introduction.
As long as it attracts public attention, regardless of whether the British authorities will intervene in the investigation, Simon, the 'mastermind', will be exposed.
If Simon hadn't taken precautions beforehand, if he really had sexual intentions for these little goblins, when the matter was exposed, it would probably turn into a more serious disturbance than the Jackson case. After all, there was only one 'victim' who sued Jackson, but here was a group. According to the laws of Western countries, if they got into trouble, it would be enough to be imprisoned for hundreds of years.
certainly.
These are just 'theoretical'.
Simon wasn't too worried about any of this at all.
The laws of the United Kingdom and the United States are just a joke to some people.
Money and power are enough to settle many things.
In my memory, the wealthy American businessman Jeffrey Epstein raised an island of underage girls as sex slaves. He also created a loli flight and entertained super celebrities such as Prince Andrew of the UK and former US President Bill Clinton. This kind of For a crime that could have cost him several lifetimes in prison, he was only sentenced to 18 months after the incident, and that was with a suspended sentence.
As for the British prince, Bill Clinton and the large number of other wealthy businessmen and celebrities who were entertained, it was nothing.
Too often, the so-called law only targets the weak.
Noticing that Simon was thinking about things, Jerry Hall did not interrupt him along the way. When the luxury car drove into the underground parking lot of an apartment in Greenwich Village in downtown, the driver stopped the car, and Jerry Hall finally asked: " Simon, is there anything that needs to be done quickly?”
Simon noticed that the car had stopped, came back to his senses, casually organized the documents and threw them aside, shook his head and said, "Nothing, let's get out of the car."
The driver was also opening the door outside at this time.
Since Simon said it was okay, Jerry Hall automatically ignored what had just happened. After getting off the car, he held the man's arm and entered an elevator in the underground parking lot.
Looking at the elevator, it showed that this was an eight-story apartment building.
Jerry Hall pressed the button for the sixth floor, and the elevator quickly reached its destination.
The two walked out of the elevator and saw a door directly in front of them. Jerry Hall took out the key from his bag and opened the door while explaining: "This is a large flat floor, because I have to live with the children, and there are Nanny, I chose this place.”
Simon nodded and said: "It's very good. I also like a bigger house."
Opening the door and entering the house, Jerry Hall motioned to Simon to wait in the entrance hall while he entered the living room first.
I heard vague voices. It was Jerry Hall who was nannying in the apartment. A moment later, the woman appeared again. The two walked through the living room and along the corridor to a master bedroom. She motioned to Simon to do whatever he wanted. Jerry Hall Hall added: "I'm going to send the nanny away so that we don't have to worry about anyone disturbing us."
Simon nodded and said, "Then I'll take a shower first."
Jerry Hall personally guided Simon to the bathroom, helped him prepare all the things he needed for a bath, and then left with the clothes the man took off.
Simon did not use the bathtub, but just took a shower. He opened the bathroom door wearing a bathrobe and found that Jerry Hall had returned, but he still had a little baby in his arms. Seeing Simon, the woman explained awkwardly: "Sorry, Simon, Gloria woke up just after the nanny left.”
"It doesn't matter."
Simon said, he walked to the big bed and sat down against the headboard. Feeling the pleasant feminine fragrance around him, he picked up a magazine and flipped through it a few times, then raised his head and looked at the mother and daughter not far away. The little girl was burying her face in her mother's open chest attentively, and her little hands were restlessly pressing it like a cat.
Noticing that Simon was looking over, Jerry Hall did not turn around, and looked at the man with a more provocative look.
Simon was a little embarrassed and took the initiative to find a topic: "Actually, the way you hold the baby is wrong, which will make the baby uncomfortable."
Jerry Hall smiled and said: "I have always hugged him like this, and the three children have no objection."
Simon said: "Do you think the little guy can give you advice?"
Jerry Hall raised his chin slightly and smiled even more: "Anyway, I don't have any objection."
Simon was speechless, and at the same time he understood that Jerry Hall's attitude towards becoming a mother should be similar to Janet's. This woman was already a mother of three children. Her modeling career and television affairs were not delayed, but were getting better and better. , certainly can’t spend much energy on children.
The two chatted casually, during which the little girl turned to look at Simon a few times. She didn't recognize him as a stranger or familiar with him. From her mother's words, she learned that the little guy is two years old and is as old as Melbourne, but he looks smaller. The little one is far less strong than Melbourne, and he doesn't know many words.
After more than ten minutes of this, the little girl fell asleep again. Jerry Hall sent his daughter to the next bedroom. When he came back, he walked to the bed and lay down next to the man, and asked: "How is my place?"
"It's very good," Simon nodded, recalling the layout of the apartment, and added, "But it should be decorated more carefully."
"It's not my house. Spending too much money on decoration is wasted."
Jerry Hall's tone was casual, with just the right amount of regret and loss, but Simon instantly understood why she invited him here tonight. He reached out and the woman's soft cry of pain soon sounded in the bedroom: "It hurts so much." ah."
"Didn't you get 5 million pounds in alimony? It should be more than enough to buy this apartment, right?"
"This money should be used to raise children," Jerry Hall said, and complained half-truthfully: "It is said that someone bought four houses for 'Waist Jing' and 'Leg Jing' at one time. I Not worse than them."
Simon smiled and suddenly said: "What do you think of Murdoch?"
Jerry Hall was confused: "A very good man, what's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing."
Simon didn't feel any interest in Jerry Hall's tone and reacted. Jerry Hall is now in his thirties, well-maintained, and still in his prime, but Murdoch is already a 63-year-old man, and his marriage is in good shape. Not to mention Simon, there is no way that the two of them will rub off. Sparks.
The world's richest man with a billionaire level at that time and an old-school rich man in his sixties, any woman knows how to choose.
After all, there was some close relationship, and Simon would not really bluntly ask Jerry Hall to get close to Murdoch. This was too weird.
Seeing that the man didn't seem to agree to his intention, Jerry Hall hesitated for a moment and then said: "Simon, Daenerys Entertainment must subscribe for shares before IPO, or can you give me some subscription shares? "
The prerequisites for a company's IPO usually require a certain number of shareholders.
Daenerys Entertainment is still 100% owned by Simon personally. If it wants to go public, it must diversify its shares and gather enough shareholders.
In addition to cashing out equity awards for executives such as Amy Pascal, Simon also plans to allocate 5% of the stock to Daenerys Entertainment employee groups for subscription this time. Based on a valuation of US$40 billion, this part of the stock alone is worth US$2 billion.
In order to motivate employees, the price of internal stock subscriptions will be discounted according to the employee's position and seniority. The lowest discount under the Simon Plan is only 30% of the IPO issue price. It can be said that as long as you can get the stock, even if there is no discount at all, with the current momentum of Daenerys Entertainment, you can make a profit by selling it after it goes public.
As the controller of Daenerys Entertainment Group, Simon has absolute power to decide who can obtain subscription rights, but he does not intend to abuse it.
Hearing the woman's request, Simon pointed to the clothes hanger in the corner of the bedroom: "Bring me my coat."
Jerry Hall was stunned for a moment, and then he realized something. He suppressed the expectation in his heart, stood up and took Simon's coat over. Watching the man take out his wallet, he was immediately more convinced.
Simon said while filling out the checkbook: "As a producer of Fashion TV's popular programs, you can also get a part of the stock subscription quota. The amount will be reviewed and assessed by the human resources department. You don't want any extra."
Jerry Hall watched the man fill in a long list of numbers in the checkbook without hesitation, and for a moment he couldn't think of anything else. Until Simon tore off the check and handed it over, she still couldn't believe it. She took the check and looked at it carefully, and finally confirmed that it was US$5 million!
Last year, she divorced her husband, who she had been with for more than ten years. The two went to court and completely fell out, and she only received 5 million pounds.
The same is 5 million.
There is really no comparison between men and men.
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a hand reaching out. Jerry Hall subconsciously hid the check under his body. He noticed that this action was inappropriate and was about to remedy it. The owner of the big hand just grabbed her delicate face and twisted it towards him: " Do I look like the magic lamp in the Aladdin story?”
Jerry Hall smiled flatteringly: "Yeah."
Simon said: "Actually, you have to understand that it's not that easy to get my money. Now that I've got it, I think you should know what to do with it."
Jerry Hall's eyes suddenly flashed with some hesitation.
Simon noticed the change in the woman's eyes and explained: "I don't intend to possess any woman forever. When in the future, or a month later, or a year later, do you think you want to start a new relationship or the next marriage, tell me, Then you can leave. Before that, if you let me know that you are having an affair with other men, not just the check just now, I will also take away everything you own, do you understand? "
Jerry Hall felt relieved and nodded quickly.
Of course I understand.
The man's request is actually very simple. He doesn't want to be deceived.
Although he had a little bit of curiosity in his heart, Jerry Hall had no intention of trying to deceive the little man in front of him.
Leaning over and carefully putting the huge check into the drawer of the bedside table, Jerry Hall stood up and said, "Simon, I'm going to take a shower, you... ah..."
He left Jerry Hall's apartment around seven o'clock the next day.
The woman also wanted to persuade him to have breakfast with him, but Simon had no intention of meeting the other party's three children. Moreover, he had already made an appointment with Verizon Communications CEO Raymond Smith for breakfast to discuss some of the telecommunications company's recent projects.
We met at a breakfast restaurant next to Central Park at eight o'clock, and the two chatted for an hour while eating.
After breakfast, Raymond Smith flew to Europe. Verizon is currently negotiating with an Italian telecommunications company to establish a joint venture to develop mobile communications business.
Regulations on the telecommunications industry in North America have temporarily prevented Verizon from operating in other regions of the United States. Therefore, the focus of expansion in recent years has been overseas. Currently, Verizon has established or established offices in Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Finland and other countries. Sole proprietorship or cooperative telecommunications company.
Relying on Sofia's operations in Italy over the years, Verizon's next expansion target will also be in this country.
Moreover, Verizon's overseas operations are basically focused on the relatively emerging field of mobile communications, which can avoid too strong conflicts of interest with local traditional fixed-line business operators to the greatest extent.
The current fixed-line telephone business still maintains a very strong market share. Only Simon knows that in the next ten years, fixed-line telephones will be rapidly replaced by mobile communications. By then, Verizon's layout at this time will bring a lot of revenue and can It will have a strong promoting effect on the entire mobile communications industry chain of the Westeros system.
After bidding farewell to Raymond Smith, Girl A, who was in the Fifth Avenue apartment last night, rushed over to join Simon, and the two headed to Greenwich, Connecticut, in upstate New York.
In the morning, we will also meet with Joseph Schlapp, the head of Schlapp Consulting Company, to learn about the recent developments in Washington and the lobbying progress of a series of bills that the Westeros system is concerned about.
As the car shuttled through the streets of New York, Simon mentioned to Alison in the car the information that Murdoch gave him last night: "Over in London, the team responsible for secretly guarding the Chelsea villa were all fired and replaced with a new group of people. In addition, let Martin Dinham lead his team to London and keep an eye on the paparazzi who concocted these materials. There is no need to alert the other party. I just want to know who is behind this matter."
The team responsible for secretly guarding Chelsea Villa is only a peripheral member of the Westeros family intelligence system. This is inherently a testing job. Only by continuously accumulating qualifications can they gradually move closer to the core.
Regarding this incident, there is a thick stack of photos of the Chelsea villa and even the girls in the file. Even if it cannot be stopped, the paparazzi's candid photos should be discovered immediately.
However, it was Murdoch who told him the story, which made Simon completely intolerable.
If Martin Dinham, a core member of the Westeros family's intelligence network, makes such a low-level mistake, Simon may even take drastic measures to clean up the door and spend large sums of money. He doesn't want to see this. kind of result.
As for the peripheral teams, they can only be fired for the time being.
Alison sat next to Simon, took note of the man's instructions, and asked: "Boss, do you need to make some preparations in advance?"
Although Murdoch transferred the information to Simon and stated that News Corporation would not get involved in the matter, the matter was already under scrutiny and it was only a matter of time before it was exposed.
Simon also considered this issue and said: "Tell Claire and ask her to contact Wall Street and make a gesture that Tinker Bayer plans to launch an IPO, so that there will be more noise."
Girl A figured it out after a little thought, and slightly raised the corners of her mouth to write down the matter.
C-girl Claire Gein was once one of the four ABCD waitresses closest to Simon.
Since some people want to make a fuss about the next generation of maids in the Westeros family, then let the public see what heights the maids in the Westeros family can reach.
Although Tinker Bayer has only launched a digital camera product for the time being, relying on the rapid development of the World Wide Web, this electronic product company has achieved outstanding results of more than 1 billion US dollars in annual sales in just a few years. With a 15% shareholding in Colbert Company, even though it has not yet been listed, Lady C has already become a billionaire.
Billionaires in this era are still very valuable. Last year, the threshold for the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans was only over US$300 million. If Tinkerber is really listed, given the capital market's optimism for this Westeros system technology company, it is not impossible for Lady C to directly enter the ranks of the 400 richest people in the United States.
Such an achievement was widely publicized, which was enough for many people to realize the value of the Wei family's maid.
The 'poor' girls in the London villa who were originally mistakenly thought to be victims of human trafficking will become a group of super lucky ones.
After giving these instructions, after thinking for a moment, Simon added: "I remember that Yigrit established an online video live broadcast technology development project in May last year. It must be completed now. Let them build a live broadcast website as soon as possible. Only one Just live broadcast users.”
Alison has handled relevant project materials.
Live video technology is just one of a large number of development projects carried out by Igret, and is an extension of streaming video technology. Due to the limitations of the current Internet speed and user base hardware, this technology will only be a backup after it is developed, and is not suitable for the launch of formal products for the time being.
If you just build a simple live broadcast website, it is easy to do it with the technology accumulated by Yigrit Company.
Alison still quickly understood Simon's intentions.
The people who secretly manipulated this incident must have thought that Simon would do everything possible to cover it up after the incident was exposed. This would inevitably cover up the matter and further lead to unnecessary speculation by the public.
The fact is that perhaps the public disclosure of this matter will once again trigger some criticism of Simon's personal extravagance and squandering, but there is nothing legally unspeakable about the matter itself. Moreover, by directly displaying the girls' living conditions through online live broadcast, any unfounded speculations and malicious rumors will be self-defeating.