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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Perkins
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Thomas James Perkins (born 1932) is an American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
[edit] Biography
Perkins received a B.S. in EECS (course 6) from MIT in 1953. He earned an MBA from Harvard in 1957.[1] While attending MIT, Perkins joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.[edit] Career
In 1963, he was invited by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard to become the administrative head of the research department at Hewlett-Packard. He was the first general manager of HP's computer divisions, credited with helping shepherd HP's entry into the minicomputer business. During the 1960s, he also started University Laboratories, which was later merged into Spectra-Physics.In 1973, with Eugene Kleiner, he founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the first Sand Hill Road venture capital firms. Later, Frank Caufield and Brook Byers joined the firm, eventually becoming named partners. Perkins served as a director of Applied Materials, Compaq, Corning Glass, Genentech, Hewlett-Packard, and Philips Electronics.[2] He served as the only chairman of Tandem Computers, from its founding in 1974 until its 1997 merger with Compaq. Perkins was also chairman of Genentech from 1976 until 1990 when it merged with Roche Holding Ltd.[3]
During the HP/Compaq merger fight in 2001, Perkins was a member of the Compaq board and an outspoken supporter of the merger.[4] He joined the HP Board of Directors in the merger, retired, and officially rejoined the HP board days before Carly Fiorina was fired from her posts as chairman and chief executive officer of HP.
[edit] Controversial resignation from HP Board
Main article: HP spying scandal
Perkins resigned from HP's board on May 18, 2006, over the actions taken by the board's chair, Patricia C. Dunn, to ferret out the board-level source of media leaks using methods Perkins considered unethical and possibly illegal.[5] HP gave no cause in the SEC-required 8-K filing, and according to Perkins refused to amend the filing to indicate his reasons for resigning.[6] In response, Perkins disclosed his reasons publicly, triggering an SEC investigation and significant media interest into HP's leak-finding activities.[7][8]Perkins's residential phone records were obtained through a method known as pretexting. AT&T confirmed that someone pretended to be Perkins, using his phone number and his Social Security Number.[9] HP confirmed that the investigative firm they hired used pretexting to obtain information on the call records of the directors.[10] HP's investigation found that Dr. George Keyworth II was the source of several leaks. At the May 18, 2006 board meeting, Dr. Keyworth admitted to leaking information but refused to resign after the board passed a resolution calling for his resignation. HP's board decided on August 31, 2006 to not renominate Dr. Keyworth for another term as director.
The SEC and the State of California have both begun inquiries into the methods used by HP to investigate its directors.
[edit] News Corp. board
As of 2007 Perkins sits on the board of directors of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation,[11] where he serves with Viet D. Dinh. Dinh represented Perkins in the HP board affair. In July, 2011, Dinh and fellow News Corp. board member Joel Klein took over the investigation of the News of the World phone hacking affair and related Corporation issues.[12] One business commentator, noting Perkins' prior experience with phone-hacking in the HP scandal, speculated that Perkins "may be [was the] best hope" as News Corp. sought to work out of its phone-hacking scandal.[13][edit] Personal life
Perkins has two children, with his first wife, the late Gerd Thune-Ellefsen. After she died in 1994, he married romance novelist Danielle Steel in March 1998; her book The Klone and I (ISBN 0-385-32392-1) was about their friendship. They separated in August 1999 and were later amicably divorced.[14]In 1996, Perkins was convicted in France of involuntary manslaughter arising from a yacht-racing collision, forcing him to pay a $10,000 fine.[15]
In July 2006, he formally launched his 289-foot sailing yacht named The Maltese Falcon, at the time the world's largest privately owned sailing yacht.[16][17][18] The yacht was listed for sale in 2006 on Yachtworld.com, the asking price being €99,000,000 with engine hours listed at 1,890 hours.[19] Perkins sold the yacht for £60million in July 2009.[20]
He has houses in Belvedere, Marin County, California,[21] and spends about two months a year at Plumpton Place, his Elizabethan mansion in East Sussex, England, which once belonged to the Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.[20]
Perkins was featured in the documentary film Something Ventured which premiered in 2011.
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In 1965, when she was only 18, Steel married banker Claude-Eric Lazard
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samira_Khashoggi
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Samira Khashoggi (or Kashoggi) (1935 - March 1986) was the first wife of Egyptian born Mohamed Al-Fayed, and the mother of Dodi Fayed.
Her father Muhammad Khashoggi was a medical doctor of Turkish descent[1] — the family name means spoonmaker (Kaşıkçı) in Turkish. She is the sister of Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi She met Mohamed Al-Fayed on the beach in Alexandria,[2] and they married in 1954. The marriage lasted two years, and produced one child, Dodi Fayed. Samira separated from Mohamed Al-Fayed just months after Dodi's birth. She died of a heart attack in 1986 aged 51.
She was the aunt of actress Nabila Khashoggi.[3]
Her son Dodi Fayed was reportedly devoted to her, and would telephone her almost every day up to her death. Dodi once told a friend: "If it meant giving up everything I have — cars, wealth, and women — I would do it to bring my mother back."
http://www.ciajfk.com/KASH-.html
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NOTES FROM THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD by Ronald Kessler
In the 1980s Adnan Khashoggi's wealth was estimated at 2 to 4 billion dollars. He had surpassed Howard Hughes' whose wealth was at 1.5 billion. Both were tied to the CIA and to George de Mohrenschildt. Khashoggi indirectly. p. 12
Khashoggi organized a contract for Westrex to operate the Dhahran International Airport in Saudi Arabia. p. 18
In the early 1960s Khashoggi worked with Fiat. p. 31
Robert Andrew Shaheen of Syrian descent began working for Khashoggi as a consultant in 1960. p. 68
Jan Stenbeck of Morgan Stanley & Company often travelled with Khashoggi. Morgan & Stanley held many floors within the World Trade Towers. p. 91
Through F. William F. Gay, Howard Hughes personal aide Shaheen was introduced to a consultant for real estate opportunities on Khashoggi's behalf. p. 107
In 1974 Khashoggi considered buying the First National Bank of San Jose, California but backdown in 1975 saying that "individual fanatics" had waged a hate campaign. p. 109
Khashoggi often gambled at Howard Hughes' Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. This is where Khashoggi dealt with Howard Hughes' personal aide F. William Gay. 127
In Oct. of 1969, Khashoggi was present when President Nixon invited Prince Fahd to the White House. Khashoggi was there again in June 1974 and when Nixon flew to the Saudi Arabia to meet with King Faisal. Khashoggi opened a bank account with Key Biscayne Bank in Florida just to be close to Nixon by impressing Charles "Bebe" Rebozo. Khashoggi was very close to Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Prince Sultan. p. 144-145
Edward P. Morgan a former General Accounting Office auditor and Federal Bureau of Investigation inspector worked with Howard Hughes and Adnan Khashoggi. p.165
Khahshoggi became acquainted with Caroline Kennedy in February of 1975 and while giving an interview to NBC, Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis watched. p. 179-80
In 1985, Khashoggi paid $50,000 to attend Prince Charles and Diana charity dinner in Palm Beach, Florida arranged by Armand Hammer. p. 193.
Brooke Shields dated Khashoggi's son and later Khashoggi's nephew Dodi Al Fayed in the early 1980s. p. 205
Khashoggi had purchased a $60,000 bracelet for Richard Nixon's daughter. Khashoggi said that he would have given Nixon a $1,000,000 if he had asked for it. p. 224
In 1966 Khashoggi accompanied King Faisal to see President LBJ. p. 257
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi
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most recently, he met with Richard Perle shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Khashoggi has eight children.
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