Chapter 740: Once Childish (3)
After a few small talks, Simon sensed the purpose of the Hiltons' party tonight.
Cathy Hilton wants to join The New York Wife.
If you want to participate in this popular reality show of Daenerys Entertainment's USA cable network, it is undoubtedly the most convenient way to contact Simon directly.
Speaking of the Hilton family, because of the great fame of the Hilton Hotel, the outside world will instinctively think that they should be in the same order of magnitude as the famous old money families such as Hearst and Newhouse.
However, the old money may be right, and the foundation is too bad.
Before the conflict with the Westeros system, even if it was split into many parts because of the large number of children in the family, the assets of several core members of the Hearst family were also rich, and the Hilton family, the second-generation head of the Hilton family, the only one who holds the equity of the Hilton Hotel, has a personal net worth of only about 200 million US dollars, and he has not even entered the Forbes American 400 list.
Barron Hilton also has a large number of children, with a total of eight children, and the hotel tycoon, who has focused on his career for many years, is not the kind of person to let his children go. Therefore, as the sixth son of Barron Hilton, Richard Hilton can only be self-reliant, in addition to receiving a living allowance from the family trust and a glamorous surname, if he wants to further enjoy the life of high society.
In the past, Chrissy Jenner was known as the 'godmother' of the Kardashian family, in fact, many of this woman's manipulations were to imitate Cathy Hilton earlier, and even deliberately released some kind of video of her daughter in order to create a topic.
Paris Hilton's tape incident was purely accidental.
However, Paris's mother, Cathy Hilton, seized the opportunity well and turned her daughter into a phenomenal IT girl. Using these fame, Paris Hilton has amassed hundreds of millions of assets almost from scratch by founding fashion brands, publishing books, and participating in TV shows.
After the success of the Kardashian family, some people always ridiculed Paris Hilton for being photographed to death on the beach by one of his former henchmen, but in fact, through many personal brands, Paris Hilton is still thriving, and her personal net worth is higher than that of most members of the Kardashian family, even if she can't inherit her grandfather's billion-dollar inheritance, she can still easily maintain her luxurious life.
All of this is obviously not something that a material girl who only knows how to hang out at night parties all day long can do, and most of it is thanks to Casey Hilton.
Let's talk about Kathy Hilton.
The woman with the original surname Richards and her other two sisters, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, were all child stars and later became Manhattan socialites, and all three sisters successfully married into wealthy families, at least once married into wealthy families, so it can be seen that they are scheming.
After marrying Richard Hilton, Cathy Hilton did not concentrate on being a housewife, but used the surname Hilton to start her own design studio, mainly engaged in interior design.
Now, the continued popularity of "New York's Wife" has obviously made the other party think about it.
Some media in Manhattan have also reported that the most popular Jenner couple in the show, relying on the fame brought by "New York Wife", just participated in some promotional activities The appearance fee is as high as 300,000 US dollars, and other such as brand endorsement, publishing books, starting a company, etc., combined, the couple's annual income easily exceeded 10 million.
This kind of fame and income has made many Manhattan housewives who once held their own identities ready to move, and "New York Wife" cannot say that it will be replaced, so it has also spawned some other similar reality shows, but the popularity cannot be compared with "New York Wife".
From its launch in 1991 to the present, "New York Wife" is in its fourth season, and it really needs some fresh blood.
What's more, the surname 'Hilton' is definitely a very eye-catching place.
Therefore, sensing the other party's thoughts, Simon simply took the initiative and said, "Cathy, are you interested in participating in a reality TV show?"
Simon's words came out, Cathy Hilton's eyes obviously lit up, but the Jenner couple next to them subconsciously glanced at each other, in the conversation just now, they had already sensed the intentions of the Hiltons, and Chrissy Jenner finally understood why Cathy Hilton suddenly appeared in her social circle during this time.
At this stage of "New York Wife", Chrissy Jenner is undoubtedly the most successful of several housewives.
However, things could be very bad if Cathy Hilton were to join him, and the surname 'Hilton' was so loud and inherently had the quality to grab the audience's attention. The show is in its fourth season, and even though this reality show has formed a very stable audience, people are always looking for novelty, and it is difficult to say whether their name will be suppressed by Cathy Hilton.
If she could, Chrissy Jenner would absolutely stop at nothing to exclude Cathy Hilton from The New York Wives.
However, Simon Westeros took the initiative to invite, and things were very difficult.
Thinking of the few experiences at the beginning, this is obviously a little man who is strong to the bone.
Cathy Hilton, of course, knew that Simon Westeros took the initiative to send out an invitation, and the opportunity was rare, but she was just a little reserved for two seconds, and quickly said: "Simon, do you mean, "The Wife of New York"?"
Simon nodded, "yes." β
"Of course, I, well, I'd love to try it, I just don't know if I can do it well. β
"Haven't you ever been an actor, it's much simpler than being an actor," Simon said, and made a direct decision: "In this way, next spring, you can try to make a few cameo appearances, and then decide whether to join in the fifth season." β
It's about to be the winter break for TV dramas.
The first half of the fourth season of "The Wife of New York" has recently been broadcast, and the second half will not start until February next year.
Different from the initial one-off production of a whole season, after gradually becoming standardized, most of Daenerys Entertainment's reality shows have begun to adopt the traditional strategy of production and broadcasting, in addition to adjusting the plot in a timely manner according to audience feedback, which can minimize the capital operation cycle.
It's easy to add a new character with a cameo on an ad hoc basis.
Westeros had already said so, and Cathy Hilton was not polite anymore and directly agreed.
Simon turned his head to find his shadow, gave a word to Girl A, and asked him to say hello to Robert Iger, and finally had a few words with the Hiltons, and then turned away.
When a young tycoon leaves, there is a clear estrangement between the Hiltons and Jenners, who were still very harmonious, although they are still smiling, but they are obviously not as enthusiastic as before.
At ten o'clock, Simon left the party with Yasmin and Naga and returned to his apartment on Fifth Avenue.
When I left the Gramercy Hotel last night, I felt that the temperature had dropped a lot, and a cold wind was blowing.
When I woke up, the world was white.
New York City fell its first snow of the year after the early hours of last night, and it was so violent, the snow did not stop during the day, and the whole of Manhattan was covered by wind and snow.
I had planned to leave for Los Angeles in the morning.
It depends on the situation, and you can only give up.
The two Jennies went to Australia after the birthday of the two little ones a few days ago, and the old man missed his grandson.
In fact, Simon also wants to live in Australia for a while.
Unfortunately, the times do not allow it.
Even if he reached an agreement with several bigwigs in Washington at the White House yesterday afternoon, Simon will not leave the United States easily in the short term, just in case. Although the means of communication in this era have been able to eliminate geographical barriers, whether Simon is personally based on American soil will always make a difference.
After breakfast, Yasmin and Nadja rushed to work.
There's a lot to do in the next few days after last night's big show.
Simon didn't leave his Fifth Avenue apartment and worked from home.
The most important thing is the recent public opinion development.
Under the operation of the Westeros system media public relations team, today's news from the mainstream media in North America is naturally the third Victoria's Secret show last night, in order to make the topic more hot, but also deliberately provoked some disputes, once again poked those conservative people to attack the Victoria's Secret show, and the two sides came and went.
News of yesterday afternoon's meeting with the president and senior members of Congress also appeared in the pages of many major newspapers.
The media is quite unanimous: to discuss some matters related to the new technology technology industry.
It seems that the midterm elections are fast becoming a thing of the past.
Inevitably, some newspapers have speculated similarly, but to the extent that the Westeros system can influence, Simon's meddling in the midterm elections has been largely avoided.
The Igrete portal also took advantage of this opportunity to drop the bombshell of 'IPO'.
At the same time, it is implied that Westeros will reach a settlement with the federal Ministry of Justice in the near future on the antitrust investigation.
Because of this series of good news, at the opening of the morning, the Nasdaq technology stock sector rose sharply across the board, directly breaking through the 1,800-point mark.
Simon's personal net worth has grown by billions of dollars in just a few hours.
After a busy morning, I had a two-hour video conference with several senior executives of Igrete in the afternoon. At about four o'clock, Simon left Manhattan for Greenwich, intending to discuss something more with Joseph Schlap before dinner.
The snow was still falling, and it was impossible to use helicopters, so I had to take a car.
On the way, I talked to the Australian side.
With a time difference of 15 hours, it was already the morning of November 14 in Australia, and unlike the heavy snow in New York, it was the height of summer in the southern hemisphere.
On the phone, Janet was playing with a group of little guys in Tasmania's own territory, and asked Simon to listen to the sound of the old man on the grass teaching Melbourne to ride a horse, which made Simon a little worried, a 76-year-old man, a little bit who will only turn 4 years old next month, what kind of horse to ride, is it not good to play golf in a battery car?
Thinking about it, he hurriedly warned that it was barely okay to ride a horse, and there must be many people around to protect him, but he was definitely not allowed to hunt.
Janet giggled on the phone, looking arrogant as if she was thanking you for the reminder.
The road is slippery in snow, and the driving speed cannot be too fast, it took more than an hour to get from Manhattan to Greenwich, and it took more than an hour to talk on the phone, everyone chatted a few words, and even Little Nick didn't pull down, knowing that it was snowing heavily in New York, Janet felt amazing, but she didn't look forward to it at all.
Women are afraid of the cold.
Finally, he said that he planned to return to North America two days before Thanksgiving, and teased Simon that he could rest assured that he could fool around.
But the old man and Jennifer didn't forget to ask about the midterm elections on the phone.
Simon, of course, knew that Janet was giggling, and as the mistress of the Westeros family, she did not do much less in private than herself.
Arriving at the manor in the northern suburbs of Greenwich, I hung up the phone, and the time was already a quarter past five.
In the Northern Hemisphere in November, it's usually late afternoon, but the sky and the earth are still white because of the heavy snowfall.
Sophia, who came to North America yesterday to spend the weekend with the children, has already helped Simon clean up the manor and started to have dinner prepared.
Joseph Schlap arrived around the same time.
Simon and Schlap talked in the study for more than an hour, sending each other off, dinner was ready, because the first half of the year moved to the next door The Fercy family came to dine together, inevitably in a somewhat eccentric atmosphere, more or more warm. At the dinner table, Gemma was asked about her schoolwork, which also caused the girl to be angry, and she said that fortunately Simon was only her stepfather, which made Sophia blush and knocked on her daughter's head with a spoon.
After dinner, Sophia's parents returned to the next house with their two children, and the woman naturally stayed.
Like a housewife, she cleaned up the housework herself, came to a living room with a fireplace in the villa, turned off the overhead light, leaving only a faint yellow wall lamp and the fire in the fireplace, and hugged the little man on the sofa together, the surroundings were dark, and the wind occasionally came from outside, but the atmosphere was very charming.
Simon put down the book he was reading, put his arm around the woman's waist, and listened to her talk about the progress of the integration of Versace, Bulgari and Vacheron Constantin, and talked about the recent developments of the Honor Society.
Simon is also not shy about talking about the midterm elections and his own caution and apprehension.
Before you know it, it's late at night.
The probe stroked the woman's lower abdomen and asked, "Haven't you moved yet?"
At the beginning, Sophia wanted to have another child, a child between her and Simon, and she talked to Janet about this, and got acquiescence. However, after a few months, Huan has been better many times, but he has never been able to conceive.
Holding down the man's big hand, Sophia said, "Maybe it's because of my age, but that's not bad, there are already Danny and Gemma, I shouldn't be too greedy." β
Simon kissed the woman on the lips and smiled, "Why don't we try again, tonight will be good." By the way, if you are pregnant, the name is also ready-made. β
Sophia and Simon kissed, rubbed her cheek against the man's chin, smiled and whispered, "Greenwich?"
"Isn't that a bad name?"
"Weird, and, what if it's a girl?"
"Isn't Cill a girl?"
"Seattle sounds great as a girl's name, but Greenwich sounds like a boy. β
"And what do you call it?"
Sophia thought for a moment and said, "It's snowing, if it's a girl, it's called 'snow', how about snow, Westeros?"
Snow Westeros.
Very good.
Simon nodded, "Okay." β
Sophia then moved, accidentally was picked up by a book, picked it up and looked at it, this is the Chinese book that the little man has been reading after dinner, just didn't care, at this time curious: "What is this?"
"The Book of Shang Jun. β
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, I can't tell you. β
"Why?"
"This is an imperial book, well, that is, a book that was only suitable for emperors in ancient times. β
"Heh, it's good for you, but what if I look at it, I'm just a woman. β
"It's more troublesome for women to learn badly," Simon laughed, "After reading this book, I have recently found that many of my ideas are very immature and I intend to improve." β
A few days ago, I asked Girl A to find this book.
Just 26 articles.
Simon has flipped it over several times.
As for the impressions.
Simon personally feels that the whole book is about a somewhat cold concept of statecraft: the saints are unkind and use the people as dogs.
Regarding the creation of the Westeros system, Simon has been adjusting his strategy over the years.
Initially, Simon had the idea of creating a very 'universal' community, where everyone was treated in the best possible way, believing that in this way they would gain loyalty and cohesion.
Right now.
The more you think about it, the more naΓ―ve it becomes.
Especially after reading this book.
It is also very foolish to be a ruler and only know that it is gracious.
But Simon wasn't the kind of person who was a book.
Qin Xiaogong used the concept of Shang Yang to create a powerful Qin state that was unparalleled in the world, but he died after Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, in large part, because it was too rigid and easy to break.
If you govern a big country, you can cook a small fresh.
The book gave Simon a lot of inspiration, but it may take Simon more of his life to keep the Westeros system really strong for a longer period of time.
Sophia was just curious.
The man said that the book was not suitable for her to read, so he dispelled the idea of inquiry, let alone the idea of secretly reading it in private.
It was not without careful thought.
However, after being able to stay by his side for so many years and getting used to it, Sophia gradually discovered that not fighting is fighting.
Life is already very good now, little men don't like greedy women, and they have unconsciously given too much to the people around them, and no matter how greedy they are, they are stupid.
Only more will be lost.
No longer asking, he put the book aside casually, and leaned towards the man.