As steadfast allies of Black through his many travails, Team Crossharbour makes a rare club with newfound bragging rights
When it was announced by the White House that Conrad Black would be pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump, who once welcomed the former press baron as a guest at his wedding to Melania, it was the other bold-faced names on the press release that most stood out. Of course, name dropping goes with the territory for Palm Beach regulars like Trump and Lord Black.
BREAKING: Trump grants “executive clemency” aka full pardon to Conrad Black #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/LWbSqDR3xELong before Black and Elton John were together in Westminster Cathedral for the 1997 funeral of Princess Diana, in whose honour John famously repurposed his song Candle In the Wind, they shared a connection in Toronto.
As Black’s Hollinger empire collapsed in scandal, it emerged that in 2001 his wife, the journalist Barbara Amiel, was stopped from donating $7,200 to the Elton John AIDS Foundation for a White Tie & Tiara Ball because the company’s charitable budget was already spent. That meant the donation would have to come from Black’s private account. But Amiel wrote to Black’s assistant: “I showed this message to Lord B and he said ‘Hruumph. Tell Rosemary I’m arbitrarily upping my private charity fund.
That generosity did not go unrewarded. At Black’s 2007 trial in Chicago, which Amiel briefly left to attend the Los Angeles birthday party of John’s partner David Furnish, John and Furnish sent a letter to the judge, referring to Black’s charity, and calling him “deeply loyal” and “the sort of person who sticks with you through thick and thin.”
More recently, John has been a guest at Black’s Bridle Path mansion in Toronto, and Black has been to dinner at John and Furnish’s home in Windsor, outside London, along with the Brexit booster Nigel Farage.It really is saying something when Black says someone else has “one of the largest vocabularies of any English speaking person in public life.
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