Chapter 1229 Black Pharaoh

When Song Ya and his party arrived at London Heathrow Airport, the British suddenly thought of a problem, that is, the star who was about to sing and dance in front of tens of thousands of London concert audiences had actually surpassed the richest man in the UK (no Calculate the net worth of dual citizenship)...

In the 1990s, especially after the British pound crisis hit hard in 1992, the British economy has not been doing well, and many wealthy people have shrunk their fortunes. Currently, the richest man in Fujibi is the Schroeder family of Schroeder Investment Bank. The total wealth of 3 billion dollars has to be ranked behind Song Ya.

Richard Branson, one of the most high-profile top rich men in the world, the owner of Virgin Group and hippie tycoon Richard Branson, has a net worth of only 2 billion, which has long been overshadowed by the upstarts of IT in the United States in recent years.

The Rothschild family, which has an incomparably glorious history, has a fortune of 1.8 billion, and the Fayyad family, which plans to remarry before the former British princess died, only has a wealth of about 700 million dollars.

Of course, this is the calculation of Fujibi, an American magazine. No matter what the real situation is, the old money of the old empire is very low-key.

"As, your wedding date with Shakira..."

"As, tell me that you were just listed as the 111th richest man in the world!"

"Will you visit suziatro? Are you still in touch?"

"Let's talk about the World Cup that just passed. What do you think of the performance of the England team? Did you really party all night with Ronaldo and other Brazilian players before the final?"

"Do you have any future cooperation plans with the Spice Girls?"

"You and David Bowie..."

Due to the bombing of the embassy and the publicity of the new net worth, Anschutz, the organizer of the global tour, is very concerned about security work. In addition, in order to match the standard of international superstars, Song Ya and Shakira have been heavily protected by bodyguards and guards. There are police and police clearing motorcycles and luxury car fleets.

The world-renowned British paparazzi shouted from a distance and asked all kinds of questions. They didn't care about the Digital Millennium Act, except for the focus of ordinary gossip. In the past World Cup, their young boy Beckham was red carded in the knockout round The penalty caused the England team to lose to the old enemy Argentina, and the whole country is still criticizing and entangled.

Beckham is talking about marriage with Victoria, a member of the Spice Girls. The star plus singer, this pair is undoubtedly the top topic in the UK.

Because Xuelinfen's aunt Suziatro can still make some noise in the entertainment circle here, the British tabloids still remember that she went to Mimi to help Xuelinfen fight the "inheritance battle".

The other...is the relationship between myself and David Bowie, just like the friendship between men that J and Elton John have maintained for many years, here I also formed a c for myself and the local superstar David Bowie.

J is very unpopular with the British, and the British tabloids are much kinder to themselves.

Of course, this does not affect their rumors, and they were rubbed by a certain girl on the third page of the Sun (the third page of the Sun usually publishes photos of sexy pornstars), saying that she had an affair with herself in France during the World Cup, completely fake news.

There are other nonsense sayings,

Song Yamo didn't care, he didn't answer any questions from the reporter, and he didn't intend to clarify one by one, just enjoy the grand pick-up treatment with a smile on his face.

"As, David Bowie, when did you two meet?"

Soon, he and Shakira started making announcements to build momentum for the concert.

Tickets are selling well thanks to the Cup of Life.

In the bbc studio, he and Shakira, as well as David Bowie and Iman lovingly appeared on the most influential talk show here.

"Bahamas...96?"

David Bowie held the cigarette in his hand, crossed his legs as if in his own living room, casually brushed off the ash on his knees, and turned his head to confirm.

"Yes, at the beginning of the year, at Patti Labelle's holiday island."

Song Ya, who was clasped with Shakira's ten fingers, thought for a moment and answered.

"Were you there Iman?" the host asked David Bowie's wife, the black supermodel Iman.

"Yes, we're going on vacation to the Bahamas..."

"What did you talk about when you first met?" the host asked.

"Music, of course it's music, we talked a lot..." Song Ya replied.

David Bowie said, "I was very interested in the American rap stories at the time. You know, singers dissed songs and threatened each other."

"At that time, both 2ac and biggie were still there, and it was a period of time when the battle between the east and west coasts was at its peak." Song Ya added.

"Yes, unfortunately, I just thought it was very interesting at the time, but I didn't expect that later..."

"Don't talk about these unhappy topics."

"Okay, as, in the Bahamas, you wrote that voodoo for David?"

"Yeah, then we talked about rock music, and as said he wrote a heavy metal song, ha, unbelievable, and my reaction was like now, what? As you wrote a rock song?"

The two had fun while reminiscing, and David Bowie laughed out his old smoker's mouth full of yellow and rotten teeth.

"A game, a game." Song Ya was modest.

The host felt that Shakira was being left out, so he changed the subject, "What about you and AS? Shakira, did you know each other earlier?"

"Yes, many years..." Shakira was not in a good mood.

"You starred in his early v."

"Well, we were not very old then..."

The host took good care of her and then asked, "David Bowie, are you and AS still doing business together? I heard Sir McLaren (CEO of 3dfx company) say...David, you also participated in the investment of that company .”

"Yes." David Bowie nodded.

"I am very grateful to David. At the most difficult time for 3dfx, he provided a very critical financial support." Song Ya laughed.

"Now that company is doing very well, can you disclose your return on investment?" the host asked David Bowie.

"Uh... about three times? Four times?"

David Bowie confirmed to his wife that his loan at that time, Song Ya, was later converted into shares by him before 3dfx went public.

The atmosphere of the chat was very relaxed, "As, you know what? The media here gave you a new nickname."

"I don't know, what nickname?"

"Black Pharaoh."

"Nia..." Song Ya had heard of this word before, and it seemed to be a Cthulhu mythological character created by the novelist Lovecraft. It was called Naia or something, and the name was very long.

"No, the conquerors of Egypt, the kings of the Kushite dynasty..."

"Oh haha, why?"

"He is also of African descent, and he has built his own empire. Of course, yours is a business empire."

"Haha, I'm not worthy, I just got lucky and bought some Internet stocks."

"You don't have to be humble. Do you like the nickname?"

"Okay……"

At the same time, in Washington, Bronfman Jr. was looking at the hundreds of photos of congressmen on the wall in front of him. These photos were divided into two groups, yea and nay, expressing their inclination to vote for the passage of the bill or against it.

After the previous major lobbying companies and politicians who drafted the bill communicated and played games, the official version of the Digital Millennium Act has been drafted. While adding the safe harbor clause as an exemption patch, it also uses the red flag principle as a key clause in the patch of the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act. Typed in.

That is, patch upon patch.

The current process has reached the stage of deliberation by the Regulations and Intellectual Property Subgroup of the House Judiciary Committee. If passed, it will be referred to the Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Commerce Committee...

After that, the House of Representatives voted, the committees of the Senate deliberated and voted, and finally the General Commander approved it to take effect.

Even though he has tried his best to make the words of the specific provisions vague, so as to lay a hole for future favorable litigation cases and increase the chance of winning the lawsuit, this result is still unacceptable to him. .

One is face. Wired magazine has revealed its position, and the current bill is basically more inclined to take care of the interests of the Internet industry.

The second is that the io valuation of Seagram Global Group will be greatly negatively affected, which is even worse, and there will be a gambling agreement with Merrill Lynch later!

This version won't work, absolutely not, he must be blocked at a later stage!

Everyone else in the office is busy, all kinds of phones ring one after another, and they are frantically lobbying various congressmen to vote against it at that time.

There are more photos of councilors temporarily placed under the letters yea, and his eyelids twitched with anger, "There must be traitors in the entertainment industry! Order all artists under Universal, as well as artists and cast members who have projects to start work with us, to If you want to take a stand, you must take a stand! Especially black stars..."

He pointed to the photos of members of the Black Caucus of the House of Representatives under the letter yea, "Let them use their connections to get rid of these people, otherwise they will publicly accuse the Black Caucus of not helping their compatriots in the entertainment industry, and we will give resources to whoever does meritorious service !These politicians take money from black people in the cultural and sports circles, and have been taking money for many years...the voters in their constituencies listen to the stars more."

"It's the same with white celebrities, they must move for me immediately!"

"There are some joint protests against the Digital Millennium Law in the public opinion. It should be grand, with more people, and the more stars the better, don't be afraid to spend money!"

He kept ordering that the relationship between the Black Caucus of the House of Representatives and AS had always been very harmonious, and it happened to take advantage of this incident to cut the branches and leaves, and clean up AS after the busy period.

"OK."

The executives under him, Ron Meyer and Doug Morris, did not dare to say no to him in his current state, and immediately went to work.

"Joseph! You have to support me this time. The voting form of the House of Representatives is very bad."

Voting is a very delicate task. The Digital Millennium Act happens to be a bill that does not have fierce opposition from party groups. Members have a lot of autonomy. Everyone has their own demands and prices, and there is a lot of room for manipulation.

Bronfman Jr. called Senator Joseph Lieberman of the Jewish Donkey Party during his busy schedule, "The situation in the Senate is not optimistic, but it is better."

"You know I'm going to vote for..."

Joseph Lieberman and the Bronfman family have been friends for many years. The boycott of Marilyn Manson last time was also a big help. But he is also a political ally of Deputy Commander Gore. Bronfman Jr. knows this very well .

"I understand your personal position Senator, but this does not affect you to contact other people for me. I will stay in Washington during this time." Bronfman Jr. said.

"Okay, that's no problem." Joseph Lieberman first agreed casually, and then asked casually as if he remembered something, "By the way, I saw some documents recently. Deutsche Bank provided financing for your acquisition of Polygram, right? ?”

"Yes, Europeans are now richer than the American banking industry. They are allowed to operate in a mixed manner. Deutsche Bank is already the largest bank in the world... Isn't it because they are a comprehensive bank?"

The tens of billions of acquisitions, if the senator wants to get in touch, he will definitely have access to the transaction review and approval records of some relevant departments at that time, Bronfman Jr. did not hide it, "I have already discussed this issue with Wall Street, as long as they support me The position in the Digital Millennium Act, and I will support their demands in the Financial Services Modernization Act in return. It is too restrictive to allow mixed operations... If there are more large comprehensive banks on Wall Street, I will not go there Borrow money from Deutsche Bank..."

"It makes sense, your trading strategy is very beautiful."

Joseph Lieberman applauds "That's it? Okay...bye."

Chicago 1990