Ron Burkle

Bill Clinton Earned $15.4 Million From Burkle Firm Since 2003

Filed under Politics, Ron Burkle
April 5, 2008 12:23 pm

Former President Bill Clinton has earned $15.4 million from billionaire Ron Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos. investment firm since 2003, according to tax documents released by his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.  ... Read more »

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Burkle Adds To Xinhua Stake

Filed under Deals, Ron Burkle
February 20, 2008 3:45 pm

It may not be the Los Angeles Times, but, for Ron Burkle, it’ll have to do. On Tuesday Burkle’s Yucaipa vehicle increased its investment in Xinhua Finance Media, this time ... Read more »

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Burkle bond’s hard to break

Filed under Politics, Ron Burkle
January 29, 2008 4:18 pm

SO much for reports that Bill and Hillary Clinton were trying to distance themselves from Ron Burkle. The Beverly Hills billionaire has been named one of the five national finance ... Read more »

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An Italian affair with ties to Clintons

Filed under Ron Burkle
December 25, 2007 10:02 am

Charming Italians who parlay supposed Vatican ties into financial gain are nothing new. When I was a correspondent in Italy in the 1980s, Roberto Calvi played that game. He ended ... Read more »

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Burkle’s Billions Get Bill Clinton’s Ear, No Respect From Ovitz

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November 2, 2007 3:10 pm

“Sweet” Alice Harris can’t heap enough praise on Los Angeles billionaire Ronald Burkle. The founder of investment firm Yucaipa Cos., Burkle made his fortune in the grocery business and opened ... Read more »

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Burkle’s Twinkie Craving May Aid Interstate Creditors

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November 1, 2007 11:50 pm

Ron Burkle, the billionaire who favors unions over shareholders, is roiling company management and giving creditors a chance of higher returns with his effort to rescue bankrupt Interstate Bakeries Corp.Interstate, ... Read more »

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Lemieux gets ownership spoils

Filed under Jim Balsillie - Research in Motion, Ron Burkle
October 27, 2007 10:57 pm

The Pittsburgh Penguins‘ $21 million payment to co-owner Mario Lemieux this month was part of a $100 million refinancing in which the other primary owner, California billionaire Ron Burkle, and ... Read more »

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BURKLE’S A DUD IN BED

Filed under Romance, Ron Burkle
October 24, 2007 5:35 pm

BABE-chasing billionaire Ron Burkle is a “sexually inept lover” with “zero sensuality” according to a sexy blond antiques dealer who claims she faked many an orgasm during the two years ... Read more »

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Poor Burkle! The Billionaire Takes Out $12 M. Mortgage

Filed under Estates, Ron Burkle
October 16, 2007 6:52 pm

You’d think a guy like Ron Burkle, a man with maybe $2.5 billion and a stake in P. Diddy’s clothing company (and, less glamorously, Pathmark grocery stores), would have enough ... Read more »

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Burkle Buys Into Chinese News Firm

Filed under Deals, Ron Burkle
September 27, 2007 10:05 am

Ron Burkle, shut out of buying a couple of American newspapers companies earlier this year, has instead turned overseas for a media investment. Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies agreed to buy a ... Read more »

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The former mayor of L.A. had sued over an investment with the billionaire businessman

Filed under Investigations & Law, Ron Burkle
September 8, 2007 6:54 am

A legal battle between former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and billionaire businessman Ron Burkle over an investment has ended before Burkle was even served with court papers, according to ... Read more »

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Billionaire Burkle blackmailed

Filed under Investigations & Law, Ron Burkle
July 16, 2007 1:20 pm

A gossip writer for the New York Post is suspected of attempting to extort a six-figure payoff from a financier in exchange for not writing negative stories about the billionaire. ... Read more »

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Ron Burkle saves Michale Jakson

Filed under Ron Burkle
June 25, 2007 1:36 am

Michael Jackson says in a court deposition that the Reverend Jesse Jackson and billionaire Ron Burkle gave him advice to help save him from financial disaster when he was fighting ... Read more »

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Billionaire Ron Burkle buys royal jeweller

Filed under Deals, Ron Burkle
June 10, 2007 9:26 am

  Ron Burkle, the Californian billionaire, has acquired a big minority stake in the business of Stephen Webster, the British jeweller famous for designing the gem-encrusted creations worn by celebrities ... Read more »

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Billionaire Burkle may join ‘Journal’ union in Dow Jones bid

Filed under Deals, Ron Burkle
June 5, 2007 10:48 am

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle is interested in exploring a bid for Dow Jones (DJ), publisher of The Wall Street Journal, in conjunction with the union that represents Journal employees, the ... Read more »

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