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Warwick has been connected romantically with Philadelphia Eagles great Timmy Brown, French singer-songwriter Sacha Distel, actor Philip Michael Thomas ( Miami Vice ), Seagram heir and CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr., and Las Vegas restaurateur and actor Gianni Russo ( The Godfather ).
In February 2004, Warner Music Group was sold by Time Warner to a group of private investors made up of Thomas Lee Partners, Bain & Company, and Edgar Bronfman Jr. ( who assumed CEO duties ).
After the death of Samuel Bronfman in 1971, Edgar M. Bronfman was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) until June 1994 when his son, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., was appointed CEO.
On April 6, 1995, after being approached by Edgar Bronfman, Jr., DuPont announced a deal whereby the company would buy back its shares from the Seagram company for the amount of $ 9 billion.
The rationale for this divestiture was that Edgar Bronfman, Jr., grandson of Samuel Bronfman, wanted Seagram to branch out into the entertainment business.
The campaign causing the highest outlays ( US $ 1. 25 billion in 1999 ) on the part of the Swiss banking industry as of 2009 was the World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks launched by Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, in concert with US Senator Alfonse d ' Amato of New York.
On 25 March 1987, WJC leaders Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Israel Singer, Sol Kanee and Elan Steinberg, as well as the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Morris Berthold Abram, arrived in Moscow to discuss the matter with Soviet government ministers, though officials swiftly denied that the USSR had agreed to an increase in Jewish emigration and had invited an Israeli delegation to visit Moscow.
In 1979, when Klutznick was named US secretary of commerce by President Jimmy Carter, the Canadian-American businessman Edgar Bronfman Sr. took over as acting head of the organization.
On 25 June 1982, WJC President Edgar Bronfman became the first leader ever of a Jewish organization to address the United Nations General Assembly.
In 1985, Carmelite nuns opened a convent near the site of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz I. WJC President Edgar Bronfman called for the removal of the convent.
Edgar Bronfman declared: " It is not only a matter of the Auschwitz convent, but the broader implications of historical revisionism in which the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the murder of the Jewish people is being suppressed.
Meeting of a WJC delegation led by Edgar Bronfman with GDR leader Erich Honecker, in East Berlin, October 1988During the mid-1980s, the World Jewish Congress also entered into diplomatic talks with several Central and Eastern European countries, notably Communist East Germany, whose leadership the WJC urged to recognize its obligations to Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.
In February 1990, GDR Prime Minister Hans Modrow sent a letter to WJC President Edgar Bronfman in which he recognized on behalf of the East German government the GDR ’ s responsibility for German crimes committed against the Jewish people under the Nazi regime.
In 1979, Philip Klutznick met with Pope John Paul II, and Klutznick's successor Edgar Bronfman, Sr. was received by John Paul II in 1992 and 2003.
In 1995, then WJC President Edgar Bronfman, Sr. was reportedly instrumental in blocking a planned deal by the DuPont-owned US oil firm Conoco with Iran.
" However, internal WJC documents seemed to suggest that a friction had developed between Singer and Bronfman over Singer's position on various internal WJC political matters, including the perception that he was insufficiently advocating the candidacy of Edgar Bronfman's son Matthew to the presidency of the WJC.
In May 2007, Edgar Bronfman stood down as WJC president, having served in this post for 28 years.
* Edgar Bronfman, Sr. ( 1979-2007, acting to 1981 )
* Seventh Plenary Assembly, 18 – 22 January 1981, Jerusalem, Israel ( Election of Edgar Bronfman Sr. as WJC president )

Edgar and may
Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.
An adventure story that may have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs's later books.
Other theories of the word's origin suggest that it may derive from Mortimer Snerd, Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummy, or the Northern Electric Research and Development ( N. E. R .& D .) Laboratories in Ontario ( now Nortel ).
Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.
Edgar may have been involved in the abortive rebellion of the Earls Edwin and Morcar in 1068 ; in any case, in that year he fled with his mother and sisters to the court of King Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland.
William of Malmesbury recorded that Edgar made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1102, and it may be that Orderic's report is the product of confusion, conflating the expedition of the English fleet with Edgar's later journey.
Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.
Edwin and Morcar again submitted, while Gospatric fled to Scotland, as did Edgar the Atheling and his family, who may have been involved in these revolts.
( This episode may have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Hop-Frog ".
It may also be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe.
Possible influences may include Edgar Allan Poe's " The Masque of the Red Death ".
It may be that Edgar here regulated the frontier between the southern lands of the kingdom of Alba and the northern lands of his English kingdom.
According to historian Sorin Antohi, Eliade may have actually encouraged Protochronists such as Edgar Papu to carry out research which resulted in the claim that medieval Romanians had anticipated the Renaissance.
" J. Edgar Hoover, director of the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, may have found the Lenin connection intriguing ; it was alleged the FBI conducted surveillance at the 1970 demonstrations.
According to Edgar and Schmidt, the added section potentially removes the " intent " to harm or aid requirement and may make " mere retention " of information a crime no matter what the intent, covering even former government officials writing their memoirs.
He may belong to as many unions or organizations as he chooses, but we think our employees at Homestead Steel Works would fare much better working under the system in vogue at Edgar Thomson and Duquesne.
" Classical antiquity " may refer also to an idealized vision among later people of what was, in Edgar Allan Poe's words, " the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome!
First described by E. S. Davenport and Edgar Bain, it is one of the decomposition products that may form when austenite ( the face centered cubic crystal structure of iron ) is cooled past a critical temperature of 727 ° C ( about 1340 ° F ).
It may be alluded to in Shakespeare's King Lear ( III, vi ) when Edgar, masquerading as Mad Tom, says:
The term was popularized in the 1896 US Presidential Election, when William McKinley supporters took to wearing gold lapel pins, gold neckties, and gold headbands in a demonstration of support for gold against the " silver menace ", though the term's original use may have been in Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 story " The Gold-Bug ," about a cryptographic treasure map.
Eliza performed until 10 days before Edgar's birth and may have named her second son after the Mr. Edgar who led the Charleston Comedians.
The early loss of his mother and other women, including his wife Virginia, may also have inspired Edgar Poe's often-used literary theme of dying women.
" Thus, when Theoharis and company were in the middle of fighting in court to obtain J. Edgar Hoover files, they may well have benefited from Landano and also Janet Reno's assertions of the government's need for " greater openness " and " discretionary releases " in 1993
* The alias that Olaf uses, Detective Dupin, may be a reference to C. Auguste Dupin, a fictional detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe.

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