Haim Saban Tops
Hollywood with $6.4 Million Backing Hillary Clinton
by Daniel Nussbaum 7 Feb 2016
Billionaire entertainment mogul Haim Saban wants Hollywood to know exactly how
much he has donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign
because he hopes the eye-popping figure inspires other deep-pocketed donors to
open their wallets for the Democratic presidential candidate.
According
to The Wrap, the Israeli multihyphenate and CEO of Saban
Capital Group has donated $6.4 million to Clinton’s official campaign, the
pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, and smaller state Democrat
Party committees. The sum is enough to make Saban the single
largest Hollywood donor to Clinton’s campaign.
“It’s important to me for the [entertainment] industry to
know what I’m doing for Hillary, how committed I am,” Saban told The Wrap after
confirming the figure. “I want my number to be out there so others will be
inspired to do the same.”
According to campaign
donation records, Saban and his wife Cheryl donated $3 million to
Priorities USA in December, bringing their total contribution to the
pro-Clinton super PAC to $5 million.
The Wrap also reports that Saban and his wife have
donated the maximum amount allowable to a number of smaller state Democratic
organizations. Here is the outlet’s breakdown of those contributions:
·
$310,000 by Haim Saban to 31
state parties (he had already paid the maximum to one of the states)
·
$320,000 from Cheryl Saban went to 32 state
parties.
·
Each gave $320,000 again in January, maxing out
their total for 2016
·
$33,400 to the DNC in November (maximum allowed)
·
$33,400 to the DNC in January (maximum allowed)
·
$5400 – or, $2700 each – to the Hillary Clinton
campaign (hard money, maximum allowed)
·
Those contributions equal an additional $1.4 million to
the Hillary Victory Fund, the name of the joint organization that comprises all
of the smaller state Democrat entities.
The $6.4 million figure does not include the money raised
by the Sabans at a fundraiser at the couple’s Beverly Hills mansion last May.
The $2,700-per-plate
affair was attended by more than 700 people and reportedly hauled in
$1.9 million for Clinton’s campaign.
Saban’s level of support for Clinton easily puts him
ahead of other Hollywood power players like Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey
Katzenberg, each of whom donated $1 million to Clinton’s campaign
last year. Last week, Star Wars director
J.J. Abrams announced that he too had donated
$1 million to Clinton’s campaign along with his wife Katie McGrath.
In November, Saban caused a minor
headache for Clinton’s campaign when he suggested that the U.S.
should use “more scrutiny” when profiling American Muslims. The billionaire
businessman later walked back his statement, saying he “misspoke.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and is the candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign.
Note: Cheryl Saban is a
director at the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, married to Haim
Saban, the president of the Saban
Family Foundation, and was a contributor for Priorities USA Action.
Haim
Saban was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a contributor for Priorities USA Action, is married to Cheryl Saban, the treasurer for the Saban Family Foundation, an honorary trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a friend of Shimon Peres.
Saban
Family Foundation was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for
the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), and
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the Sundance
Institute.
Ready
PAC (Ready For Hillary)
supported the 2016 Hillary Rodham
Clinton presidential campaign.
Priorities
USA Action is supporting the 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
Cyrus F. Freidheim
Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
Shimon Peres was
the president of Israel, and is a
friend of Haim Saban.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the chairman for DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc., was a trustee at the Sundance Institute, and Jeffrey
Katzenberg was a guest at her 2013 wedding.
Jeffrey
Katzenberg was a guest at Mellody L.
Hobson’s 2013 wedding, a contributor for Priorities USA Action, and is the founder & CEO & director
for DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.
Steven Spielberg
is a co-founder & consultant for DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc., was a contributor for Priorities USA Action, and a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
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