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Billionaire Leon Black resigned as Apollo CEO after a probe into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Black paid the deceased financier $158 million for services including tax advice.
Epstein saved Black as much as $2 billion, mostly from advice on how to structure trusts.
Leon Black isn t just a billionaire he s the mastermind who cofounded Apollo Global Management, one of the largest investment firms in the world.
A fund run by Jeffrey Epstein’s pal is helping to fund a company bidding for the UK National Lottery: Leon Black flew to criminal‘s private isle after pervert was convicted - now Apollo Global Management are to pour millions into Czech firm trying to get 10-year control of Lotto
The fund run by Leon Black is helping to fund the company bidding to run the National Lottery
Black was a friend of the late paedophile and billionaire Jeffery Epstein
He visited Epstein s private island after he had been freed from jail in 2008
The bid is being fronted by friend of Prince Harry Sir Keith Mills, who until last year was the chairman of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge s Royal Foundation
Singapore was also a hotbed of creativity in the Sixties, though its art scene at the time is sadly under-documented. “Several artists were experimental and bold and forced audiences to rethink their ideas and understanding of what art can or should be,” says Charmaine Toh, a curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Only recently did the gallery rediscover the first known examples of land art from the city a series of works by performance artist Tang Da Wu. One piece,
Gully Curtains, hadn’t been unpacked since the Eighties.
Wu was concerned to see Singapore’s landscape increasingly stripped of trees to build public housing. As a result of soil erosion, deep gullies scarred the land near his home. In response, he climbed into one of these muddy crevices and positioned seven pieces of cloth of different lengths inside it, adding jagged black marks indicating the depth of the ditch. He left the fabric there for three months, inviting nature to collaborate. The result was a
Spinnova contributes to Finnish design pieces for Baltic Sea
Saima has made two Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi’s iconic Myllynkivi (millstone) dresses with a 100% wood-based fabric, a blend of Spinnova’s sustainable fibre and lyocell.
21st January 2021
Sustainable materials company Spinnova has announced its collaboration with Saima Helsinki and legendary Finnish designer Vuokko Nurmesniemi, in a charity collection and auction for the Baltic Sea Action. As part of the charity benefit, another fabulous Spinnova demo product is introduced - the ageless classic, Myllynkivi dress with a Pyörre print, the company reports.
Saima is a new Finnish apparel brand that produces sustainable clothing in its own factory in Helsinki. In addition to its basic collection, Saima produces collaborative limited editions, meant to promote contemporary artists, designers and phenomena. Part of the profits from these collaborations are donated to charities chosen by the collaborators. Today, Saima alo