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Date: Tuesday, March 31 2015 03:23 PM Subject: fact checking questions for New York Magazine story From: Yablon, Alex To: jeevacation@gmail.com; Hi Jeffrey, Sorry for the phone tag. In case it's easier to respond by email, I have put my questions below. I'm at my desk and should be here until 5, and should be free on my cell phone after 6:30. Best, Alex office: cell:• -what is the square footage of your Manhattan home? -do you work on a laptop from your dining room, with a large white board for notes and several pairs of reading glasses close at hand? Is the dining room windowless? -do paparazzi often camp outside your home? -did Michael once visit on the same day as a head of state who'd had a police escort? -did you tell Michael about a dinner you'd hosted for six tech entrepreneurs who had a combined worth of several hundred billion dollars? When was this meal? -Do you believe that there are now more people who possess Roosevelt or Carnegie-levels of wealth, the sort that can rival governments in influence? That these people face unusual challenges when entering philanthropy due to the sheer size of their fortunes? That the rich may know the business that made them rich, but not money itself? -are you interested in what will happen to the $4.2 trillion possessed by the super-rich in 40-odd years once they have mostly died? -Do you believe no superrich people want to give their entire fortunes to their children for fear of how it might affect them? -do you advise the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on how to convince other billionaires to join their initiatives? -did you volunteer to invest $20 million dollars in Michael's attempt to buy New York Magazine in 2004? -do you believe the recent claims about Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew in relation to you are "ludicrous" ? -When you met Michael for lunch in the West Village, was it the first time in 10 years you'd gone to lunch at a restaurant? -Do you have a support staff of young wo […]