Jeff Skoll Aims to Fix Participant's 'Broken' Parts

March 31, 2015
Jeff Skoll Aims to Fix Participant's 'Broken' Parts
By James Rainey Jeff Skoll had been working frenetically with epidemiologists, NGOs and diplomats for weeks last fall. The experts were racing to contain the wildfire spread of Ebola, only to have their benefactor, the California billionaire and media mogul, suddenly suffer his own collapse. An intestinal wrecking ball sent Skoll reeling. His fever spiked to 105, knocking him flat on his back. “I just had to close my eyes for eight days,” he recalls, “and hang o... Full Story on Variety.com→
Jonah Hill Re-Lists Manhattan Loft at Lower Price By Mark David The New York City property gossip columns were the first to go on about the lower Manhattan loft that Hollywood hot shot Jonah Hill re-listed with a new and lower asking price of $3.5 million. The two-time Oscar nominee — “Moneyball” in 2011 and “Wolf of Wall Street” in 2013 — first and briefly had the handsomely furnished loft up for sale last August at $3.795 million before he took it off the sales market and made it available as a furnished re... Full Story→	Robert Towne Re-Lists Pacific Palisades Estate By Mark David The longtime estate of veteran screenwriter Robert Towne, on almost three-quarters of an acre in the low-key but seriously ritzy Riviera neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, has popped back up for sale at $10.5 million. Property records show the Oscar winner, who penned cinematic treasures like “Chinatown” and “Shampoo” — not to mention a slew of Tom Cruise-starring blockbusters such as “Mission: Impossible” and “Mission: Impossible II” — purchased... Full Story→	Rick Rosen Flipping Encino Mansion for $5.8M By Mark David He may have bought it less than a year ago, via blind trust, for $5.7 million but multiple sources have told this property gossip that  William Morris Endeavor partner and board member Rick Rosen already has his newly built mansion in Encino, Calif., back on the open market with an asking price of $5.795 million. Set behind gates on a slight rise in the rich and leafy Royal Oaks neighborhood, the multi-gabled, Colonial-esque mansion measures in, ... Full Story→
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