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Uh oh. If they kiss and make up is Climateer Investing going to get left hanging all alone for posting "Bill Ackman Copies Author Michael Crichton Without Acknowledgement, Feb 10"?
From Observer, February 22:
Ackman said he'd heard from "multiple people from around the world" that Döpfner is "a wonderful, first-class person."
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of German publisher Axel Springer, were seen having dinner together in a New York City restaurant last week, Page Six reported on Feb.19. Despite Ackman’s recent threat to sue the Axel Springer-owned Business Insider over a pair of unflattering reports about his wife, the vibe of his dinner with Döpfner was “cordial” and “nice,” according to sources speaking to Page Six.
Last month, Business Insider published a report accusing Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, an architect and former professor at MIT, of plagiarizing parts of her Ph.D. dissertation from sources like Wikipedia. The report came not long after Ackman, a Harvard alumnus, waged a campaign to oust Harvard’s former president Claudine Gay over plagiarism allegations and her handling of antisemitism on campus. Gay resigned on Jan. 2....
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UPDATE: Here's Ackman's 77-page letter to Döpfner demanding a retraction, dated February 23.
Going off on a tangent, our readers may know Observer's parent, Observer Media, because of their flagship property, real estate rag Commercial Observer which gets pretty high marks from the commercial real estate crowd.
Through another of the ultimate owner's (Observer Capital) companies, SourceMedia, they own American Banker, The Bond Buyer, Financial Planning and Accounting Today.
