Ron Burkle and Bill Clinton's partnership ends
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Former President Bill Clinton has ended his high-profile business connection to his friend Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. by walking away from a final payment that was once estimated at up to $20 million.

Ron Burkle
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[edit] Golden State Foods
Burkle sold his majority stake in supplier Golden State Foods to St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates for about $110 million. Golden State, one of McDonald's biggest suppliers, operates 11 distribution centers in the United States and abroad and two U.S. processing plants.[13]

[edit] Follieri and the Vati-Con scandal
On April 30, 2008, a Delaware judge dismissed Burkle's lawsuit against Raffaello Follieri, ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway, after he agreed to repay Burkle more than $1.3 million Burkle loaned him, a small amount of the money Burkle lost in the Vati-Con Scandal.[14]

Pittsburgh Penguins
He is part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins[11] National Hockey League team, although his current share is unknown. He co-owns the franchise with Penguins legend Mario Lemieux. The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009.

[edit] Wild Oats
Wild Oats Markets was an operator of natural foods stores and farmers' markets in North America. Burkle started buying Wild Oats stock in February 2005. By the time Whole Foods Market, a natural-foods grocer, agreed to pay $565 million for Wild Oats, Burkle was the largest shareholder of Wild Oats.[12]

Raphael De Niro Real Estate connecting the dots
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But there's trouble brewing below Canal Street. "He has all of the good listings because of his last name!" fumes a competitor. "His father does mailings for him and gives lists of his friends' addresses. If your father is famous, you make it really quick in this business. "

Despite what his detractors say, Raphael, 32, told real estate magazine The Real Deal in 2006: "My name is a hot commodity. [But] I only use it when I can put my integrity behind it 110 percent."

Going above and beyond means assembling a client list that boasts Matt Damon, Naomi Campbell and model Carmen Kass. Recently, he's taken both Jessica Alba and Victoria's Secret mannequin Adriana Lima to check out massive apartments at the Fairchild building in Tribeca.


Linda S. Stein Murdered
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She began her career as a teacher, but left teaching to manage the Ramones with Danny Fields. She also managed singer/songwriter Steve Forbert.

She was formerly married to and advised Seymour Stein, president of Sire Records and vice president of Warner Bros. Records, who was instrumental in launching the careers of Madonna, The Ramones, Talking Heads and The Pretenders. She was a fixture in clubs from Studio 54 to the Mudd Club and later a reliable voice in gossip columns, aided by her quick wit and fanciful way with a four-letter word.

In the 1990s, Stein left band management and became a "real estate agent to the stars". She landed mega-million-dollar apartments for Madonna, Sting, Angelina Jolie, Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley, Bruce Willis, Jann Wenner, Michael Douglas, Steven Spielberg and Elton John.

According to her friend, author Steven Gaines, Stein reportedly inspired two movie characters: the real estate agent (played by Sylvia Miles) who sells a high-rise apartment to Charlie Sheen's character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, and a predatory record executive in the 1998 movie 54.[2]

[edit] Death
On October 30, 2007, Stein was found dead in her apartment in Manhattan.[1] The county coroner ruled Stein's death a homicide and attributed the cause to "blunt impact trauma to the head and neck".[3] At the time of her death Stein had been battling breast cancer.