It is a special pleasure to be here at the Burkle Center, at this renowned university.
His bid, as part of a consortium alongside billionaire investor Ron Burkle, was ultimately unsuccessful.
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Both Burkle and the Tom Gores have tried their hands in the Hollywood game before.
For someone who hates publicity, Los Angeles supermarket billionaire Ronald Burkle sure keeps popping up.
But get Burkle going about his latest business scheme, and he can't keep quiet.
Mr. Burkle has since launched a proxy battle aimed at winning three board seats.
There was Yucaipa, the Los Angeles investment firm run by billionaire Ron Burkle.
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Mr Burkle failed recently in a bid, with another investor, to buy the Tribune media group.
Janet Burkle, with support of major media outlets, fought for certain financial information to be made public.
According to IMDB, Burkle was an executive producer for the 1999 film The Secret Life of Girls.
The company has additional warrants and preferred shares, while Mr. Burkle has a seat on the board.
"If it were up to me, I'd buy all the stock and take the company private, " says Burkle.
The battle is over Mr. Burkle's plan to recapitalize Morgans as it shifts from owning hotels to managing them.
In recent years, Mr. Burkle has invested more heavily in the hotel industry.
Burkle owns 19% of the firm and sued in an effort to increase his holding without triggering the poison pill.
Other billionaires including Ron Burkle are said to be keen on getting a slice of the electronic pie as well.
Investors may be wiser to follow what Burkle elects not to do.
Of course, Burkle, might have been low-balling Interstate Bakeries five years ago.
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California billionaire Ronald Burkle and his firm Yucaipa Companies had been expected to be part of a local group bidding, but has pulled out.
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Billionaire Los Angeles investor Ron Burkle has snapped up a 6% stake in racy retail chain American Apparel, according to an SEC filing.
"The average American goes to the supermarket two times per week, " wheezes Burkle, still recovering from a cold that kept him up the night before.
But after a disagreement over strategy, both Burkle and Ovitz bailed.
After his social security number was made public, Burkle successfully sought to seal or redact certain information, citing the threat of identity theft, stalking and kidnapping.
Graff says he's not interested in selling out, even at a time when private equity firms like Ronald Burkle's Yucaipa are investing in British jewelers Garrard and Stephen Webster.
Yucaipa, the investment firm headed by Burkle, said it plans to nominate Burkle and two others to the company's board at its annual meeting, which is scheduled for Sept. 28.
"Things get leaked to reporters and they get taken out of context, " says Burkle, 48, safely hidden behind the tinted windows of his Yucaipa Cos. holding company on Sunset Boulevard.
If Eli Broad and Ron Burkle were to get control of Los Angeles Times, they have talked about the notion of running it a bit more like a public trust.
Another Current investor, billionaire supermarket mogul Ron Burkle, is also believed to own roughly 25% of Current, while Comcast and DirecTV each hold stakes of more than 5%.
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