A Billionaire's New Best Friends

摘要

Steve Schwarzman "was also something of a ladies' man," write David Carey and John E. Morris. Here it comes, the reader thinks, 84 pages into their exhaustively detailed biography: Tawdry stories from Yale classmates about the young man who would be King of Capital and eventually build the $14.5 billion private equity empire known as Blackstone. "Schwarzman started a club, the Davenport Ballet Society, and arranged for its members to see a dress rehearsal of the Nutcracker Suite at Lincoln Center," they write. "Later that year, Schwarzman staged a dance festival at which students from nearby women's colleges performed. [Friend] Jeffrey Rosen... suspects Schwarzman started the club primarily as an excuse to meet girls."