The evil sisters almost look like nuns compared to their granddaddy. Samuel Bronfman (left) celebrates the wedding of his father, Edgar Bronfman Sr. (right) to Georgiana Webb one week after he was released from being kidnapped in 1975. Clare Bronfman was born in 1979 to Edgar Bronfman Sr. and his third (and fourth) wife, Rita Webb, aka Georgiana. He is a businessman, songwriter and former filmmaker, best known for leading the once largest international beverage and entertainment company in the world, Seagram. Born in 1955, Edgar Jr. ("Efer" to friends) is the son of Edgar Miles Bronfman and the grandson of Samuel Bronfman, patriarch of one of the wealthiest and most influential Jewish families in Canada. In 1975, Edgar married Rita Webb who gave birth to Sara and Clare Bronfman. How did the Forbes family make its money? Post was not sent - check your email addresses! As president, Bronfman is remembered most for his diplomacy with the Soviet Union in freeing Soviet Jews. During Canada’s prohibition (1915-19), they added illegal liquor and converted the hotels – with their live-in prostitutes – into “boozeriums.”. Bronfman became, in effect, a ‘cutout’ for the men behind DCL. Unfortunately for the Bronfmans their family was not very adept at maintaining the family fortune or translating it into political power. Frankfort and Texas Pacific were merged to form Texas Pacific Oil Company, Inc. Agree with you, Unbelievable. It looked good on paper and they had grandiose plans to become the entertainment giant that would change the world. Thanks for the history lesson. A proud Jew who publicly stated his disbelief in God,[63] Bronfman developed his own understanding of Judaism, as he learned Jewish texts and traditions both in his personal life and in his work at The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. Her sister, Clare Bronfman, pleaded guilty in April to charges related to her role in NXIVM. On December 11, 2015, “Old” DuPont announced a merger with Dow Chemical Company, in an all-stock transaction. John Murray Forbes (1813-1898), brother of R B Forbes and the great-granduncle of 2004 presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry. However the history is interesting. From January 2005 to late 2007, Raniere lost $68 million of Clare and Sara’s money in a corn future’s trade that somehow found Raniere not correctly guessing the future of the price of corn. It evolved into a nationally organized syndicate. His mother has a concert hall named after her in Montreal, the Saidye Bronfman Centre, and a building at McGill University is named after his father. https://frankreport.com/2019/07/05/rumors-about-allison-mack-include-nervous-breakdown/. Bronfman was born into the Jewish-Canadian Bronfman family in Montreal, the son of Samuel Bronfman, a Russian who had emigrated to Canada with his parents, and Saidye Rosner Bronfman, a native of Manitoba born to Eastern European immigrants. We might as well live in a virtual reality controlled by software algorithms. Nobody said the entire family is guilty. A trust held by the family controlled over 25 million dollars, the profits from which have never been taxed.” This new phase of respectability, by the way, signaled to those who knew what went on behind the scenes, that the most successful big-time whiskey bootlegger was switching to big-time narcotics. Unhappily, the project ran amok and was never completed. He was also an athlete, a concert-level pianist, a judo expert, a mathematician, a sprinter, a scientist, a philosopher, a mystic, and an ethicist. Her three children--Hannah, Benjamin and Vanessa--surround her for a family portrait. Pea: Greetings from Mexico. Waldheim subsequently filed a lawsuit against Bronfman, but dropped the suit shortly after due to a lack of evidence in his favor. Carrying a note from Shimon Peres, Bronfman met with Gorbachev, and initiated talks of a Soviet Jewish airlift. On June 25, 1982, Bronfman became the first representative of a Jewish organization to speak before the United Nations. In another incredible move, Edgar Jr. turned down EMI’s offer to buy Warner for $31 a share. Families Pledge Majority of Wealth to Philanthropy", "12 more billionaires sign on to Buffett/Gates pledge", "Jewish philanthropist Edgar Bronfman passes away at 84 | Israel News", "Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients", "Edgar M. Bronfman at The Huffington Post", "Edgar M. 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Which would you rather have? Pimping runs in the family. He next attended Williams College, then transferred to McGill University, where he graduated from in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in commerce.[2]. Together, Bronfman and the World Jewish Congress delegates advocated for the freeing of the Jews living under Soviet rule. [47] In September 2018, daughter Sara was named the defendant in a 2018 class-action suit regarding her NXIVM activities. She gave birth to two little future demons, Sara and Clare Bronfman. The Chinese opium trade. Cutouts, whose main purpose was to provide cover for the criminal activity of those much higher up in the elite financial world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bloomfield. This connection is a Canadian Jewish lawyer named Louis Mortimer Bloomfield. if you own Comcast you own Bronfmans’ former holdings of MCA Universal. DCL’s William Ross was president. On December 22, 2013, Edgar Bronfman Sr. died at age 84. The picture you see above is her father, Edgar Bronfman receiving a medal from close friend, Bill Clinton. This family builds up a fortune in the first generation only to have the family fortune frittered away in subsequent generations. "I'd laugh, but I can't breath," says Vanessa, who has wrapped herself in a chiffon skirt and lovely cream corset. He will be featured in an upcoming episode of American Greed. Clare has an older sister, Sara, who was also involved in NXIVM. Following his father's death, in 1971, Bronfman took over as president, treasurer and director of Distillers Corporation-Seagram Ltd. His son, Edgar Jr., succeeded him as chief executive officer of the company in 1994. La secta que sedujo al poder en México” by Juan Alberto Vasquez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permindex. [14] On March 6, the newspaper printed other allegations about individuals it said were connected to Permindex, including Bloomfield whom it described as “an American agent who now plays the role of a businessman from Canada (who) established secret ties in Rome with Deputies of the Christian Democrats and neo-Fascist parties.” Using the name of the distillery he had purchased long ago, Sam founded a legit company called Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. "Edgar M. Bronfman, Who Brought Elegance and Expansion to Seagram, Dies at 84". In 1934, Sam was made chairman of the National Jewish People’s Relief Committee in Canada. The Purple Gang was notorious in the 1920s and 1930s for its unrestrained violence in the struggle to gain control of illegal liquor importation and sales during Prohibition and, after Prohibition, gambling and prostitution rackets.” Tropicana was acquired by PepsiCo in 1998, which combined it with the Dole brand for marketing purposes. Finally, he called for the freedom for Soviet Jews to learn Hebrew, which was forbidden at the time. In 2003, a Forbes magazine article reported that Bronfman took a course from NXIVM under the leadership of Keith Raniere, endorsing it, but had since "grown troubled" due to the "emotional and financial investment" daughters Clare and Sara were giving to Raniere's group, remarking that Clare had loaned NXIVM $2 million, though she denied this. In 1957, Edgar, Sr. became Seagram’s president. [61], Following his death in 2013, Jewish news outlets called Bronfman a "prince of his people," for his unique combination of lineage, intrigue, and devotion to the Jewish people through learning and philanthropy. It’s such a struggle to get bored reading your comments. For every dollar that Clare and Sara spent or wasted and lost is one less dollar they can use to punish other human beings. The traditional music industry’s survival depended on selling $20 CDs, not $1 downloads. “Louis Mortimer Bloomfield (August 8, 1906 – July 19, 1984), K.St.J., Q.C., Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and soldier. Bronfman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Bill Clinton in August 1999[66] and the Star of People's Friendship by East German leader Erich Honecker in October 1988. The Distillery Corporation of London [DCL] owned by Field Marshal Haig, Lord Dewar, Lord Woolavington, and others who preferred to be anonymous, and at which time controlled more than half the world market in scotch whiskey, partnered with Bronfman to form a neat little holding company. Bronfman also had a younger brother, Charles Bronfman. Subseries D. Bronfman Family, 1949, 1966-1979 These documents include correspondence, clippings and articles about the Bronfman family and their activities. They lost their first trust fund before their father died. [9] Tropicana headquarters moved to Chicago in 2003. and Co. [1953] bringing the Bronfmans into Wall Street. EVERYTHING is a conspiracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bronfman. I have no idea who you are but you have demonstrated over time, to have exquisite attention to detail, very lucid, balanced, informed AND informative analyses expressed in impeccable English! Case File : Funny no mention of Bear Stearns or Epstein? He changed the name of MCA to Universal Studios, Inc. – and their holdings included Universal Pictures film studios, MCA Television Group,  MCA Music Entertainment Group, Universal theme parks, and Spencer Gifts. There is a subtle but distinct network of ties between North America’s criminal elite and its business elite with the British Royal Family thrown in to give this unholy alliance a touch of class. Bloomfield was based in Montreal and allegedly had ties to the US Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency. Edgar Miles Bronfman (June 20, 1929 – December 21, 2013) was a Canadian-American businessman. In 1925, Sam and his brother, Allan, built the family's first liquor distillery near Montreal. He was 84. And, where was the US government as the Bronfman family accumulated their wealth? In court filings relatives and friends said Mr. Bronfman drank heavily and Ms. Havers paid scant attention to the girls. The family sold liquor to northern cities in the United States during the Prohibition era, and then acquired Seagram Co. in 1928. Torrio held his first meeting of the syndicate in Cleveland. Or is weakness a sign of internal wickedness? Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s former in laws: Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s former brother in law is John Langeloth Loeb Jr Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s former father in law was John Langeloth Loeb Sr. Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s former mother in law was Frances Loeb Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s former sister in law is Judith Loeb Chiara Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s former brother in law is Arthur Lehman Loeb Edgar Bronfman … Welles is a great story teller who uses adept camera work and editing to frame his “morality plays”. They spent an estimated $50 million in lawyers on litigation against Raniere’s enemies who were trying to make the world a less ethical place. To family friends, Seagram heiresses Sara and Clare Bronfman are victims of a frightening, secretive “cult” called nxivm, which has swallowed as much as $150 million of their fortune. Sam’s children were welcomed into the Hofjuden elite by marriage. [1] It has become the world’s leading producer of branded fruit juices. The Bronfmans are what’s known as a “bad seed.”. 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