Forstmann Conferences in Aspen: Historical Visitors Since Founding in 1989

Source(s): September 14, 2006, Denver Post, 'Hushed Aspen to host cerebral confab': "Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States; Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international correspondent; and Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, crown prince and commander in chief of the Bahrain Defence Force, will analyze the Middle East."

Crown prince and commander in chief of the Bahrain Defence Force.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 14, 2006, Denver Post, 'Hushed Aspen to host cerebral confab': "Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States; Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international correspondent; and Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, crown prince and commander in chief of the Bahrain Defence Force, will analyze the Middle East."

Top superclass member.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Organizer of the "rival" Sun Valley Meetings.

Source(s): September 14, 2006, Denver Post, 'Hushed Aspen to host cerebral confab': "Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States; Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international correspondent; and Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, crown prince and commander in chief of the Bahrain Defence Force, will analyze the Middle East."

British-Iranian journalist and television host. CNN's chief international correspondent 1992-2010. Anchor of Amanpour, a daily CNN interview program that aired 2009–2010. Anchor of ABC News' This Week 2010-2011. Stepped down as anchor after disastrous ratings for This Week. Global affairs anchor for ABC News 2012-. Again chief international correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour since 2012.

Director of Soros, Rockefeller, Ford Foundationed-supported groups as the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Center for Public Integrity, the International Women's Media Foundation, and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.

Amanpour's husband is James Rubin: Jewish. Clinton's assistant secretary of state for public affairs 1997-2000. Regular columnist on foreign affairs for The Sunday Times of London. Contributing editor to The New Republic. Visiting scholar at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 2013-2014.

Source(s): September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (on the guest list for the canceled conference due to 9/11)

1993 professional cycling world champion, who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005. Disgraced in January 2013 when he admitted to having used doping.

September 22, 2010, Clintonfoundation.org, 'Press Release: Nearly 40 Commitments Announced As President Bill Clinton Hosts the Second Day of Programming at the Clinton Global Initiative's 2010 Annual Meeting': "Program Participants Include Madeleine K. Albright, Lance Armstrong, Stephen Bing, Tony Blair, Michael Bloomberg, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, Jim Carrey ... Thomas Friedman..."

Source(s): 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (speaker)

President and CEO of Microsoft under Bill Gates. Visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for that year)

Superclass.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Billionaire Amazon founder. Annual visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

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Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86; September 20, 2014, Aspen Daily News, 'Vice President Biden in Aspen for private event': "Vice President Joe Biden is in town through this evening for an event sponsored by the private equity firm Forstmann Little & Co. ... Biden’s 40-car motorcade sped to Aspen after landing at the Eagle County Regional Airport... Biden is said to be participating in a discussion with noted interviewer Charlie Rose today. The Forstmann Little conference has been held in Aspen since the 1990s."

Senator. U.S. vice president under Obama. Raging sexual child molester, as well as grown-up women. Never confronted by the media about his molesting of children.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Very elite member of the superclass involved in the Pilgrims Society, 1001 Club and founder of the super-elite Hollinger International corporation.

Source(s): November 21, 2011, Daily Beast, 'Teddy Forstmann’s Visionary Life of Making Big Deals and Helping Others': "Nobel laureate Eric Kandel ... recalled being dazzled by the sheer intellectual and political firepower of Forstmann's Aspen gathering, which in recent years has attracted ... Tony Blair..."; September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis' (present that year)

King of Jordan.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

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Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (visitor of a previous year)

Virgin media.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for that year)

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Source(s): September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (on the guest list for the canceled conference due to 9/11); September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "In the past the conference has featured such events as ... a political roundtable with NBC anchors Tom Brokaw and Andrea Mitchell [wife of Alan Greenspan], Fox News managing editor Brit Hume and the BBC’s Katty Kay."

Newsman. Regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (visitor of a previous year)

Editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine 1978-. Editor of Vanity Fair 1984-1992. Editor The New Yorker 1992-1998. Author of the 2007 book The Diana Chronicles. In October 2008, she partnered with Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, to found and edit The Daily Beast. Editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast 2008-2013. Launch Tina Brown Media in 2013.

In 1981 Tina Brown married Sir Harold Evans at the home of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, a person deeply involved in the CIA's Georgetown Set of the 1950s-1970s. Sir Harold Evans: editor of The Sunday Times 1967-1981, when he moved to the U.S. to marry Brows. Senior positions over the years at the US News and World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Daily News. Editor-at-large of Reuters since 2011.

Source(s): September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (on the guest list for the canceled conference due to 9/11)

Florida governor. Brother of former president George W. Bush.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Knight of Malta. Former director of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Member Ditchley Foundation. Bohemian Grove visitor. Trustee New York-Presbyterian Hospital with various elites. Founder, chairman and president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. Democrat.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (speaker); September 16, 2000, Denver Post, 'Cheney pushes military, local input on lands': "Cheney flew to Aspen to speak at an off-the-record, closed-door luncheon of an affluent and influential group assembled for the annual Forstmann Little and Co. Aspen Weekend."

Secretary of defense under George H. W. Bush and vice president under George W. Bush. Major neocon. CEO of Halliburton in the late 1990s.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Wife of Dick Cheney.

Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference': "... a climate-change discussion with National Academy of Sciences President Dr. Ralph Cicerone, NASA's Dr. James Hansen, MIT professor Richard Lindzen and American Meteorological Society senior fellow Robert Correll."

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Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

National coordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counter-terrorism at the National Security Council under Bill Clinton.

September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "In the past the conference has featured such events as a Charlie Rose interview with President Bill Clinton..."

U.S. president 1993-2001. Influential wife. Members of the superclass.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

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Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference': "... a climate-change discussion with National Academy of Sciences President Dr. Ralph Cicerone, NASA's Dr. James Hansen, MIT professor Richard Lindzen and American Meteorological Society senior fellow Robert Correll."

Senior fellow American Meteorological Society.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Mayo Clinic boss.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Actor. Director Tig Productions.

Source(s): 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (performer)

Famous singer. Trump-hating establishment propagandist.

enoughproject.org/upstanders/celebrity (accessed: February 23, 2018): "Kristen Bell ... Sheryl Crow ... Ryan Gosling [very close friend of Prendergast] ..."

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Major Jewish superclass member. Owner General Dynamics.

Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86: "George Tenet ... and Sir Richard Dearlove ... are also on hand ... as guests of the man friends warmly refer to as "Teddy Bear.""

MI6 chief.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Founder of Dell computers in 1984. Regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86 (visitor for that year)

Founder of the InterActiveCorp (IAC), which owns all online dating aps and a slew of other corporations, with Chelsea Clinton, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Buffet neighbor and Trilateralist Donald Keough on the board in past and president. Married to Diana von Furstenberg. Close friend of Herb Allen and long-time annual visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

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Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Chief investment officer for Soros' Quantum Fund during the 1990s. Regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference'; May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86 (visitor for that year)

Disney chief. Close friend of Herb Allen and long-time visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): September 18, 2007, Deadline, 'Is Endeavor Playing Into IMG's Hands?': "Emanuel's yearly attendance at Teddy's heavyweight economic and political Aspen get-together may finally pay off."

WME. UFC owner since 2016.

May 12, 2013, New York Post, 'Mogul power plays': "Can't make Sun Valley this year? William Morris Entertainment chief Ari Emanuel has a new hot ticket... The Hollywood talent agency boss and his co-CEO, Patrick Whitesell, are ... putting together a conference of highfliers. WME has been working closely with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to put together the conference with the support of New England Patriots boss Robert Kraft and California philanthropist Eli Broad. Other backers of the new event include: Mukesh Ambani, of India's Reliance Industries, a big movie investor; Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr; and Yuri Milner of DST Global, an early Facebook investor. Reps for WME declined comment. Emanuel's new event replaces a slot left vacant last year by Forstmann Little's annual conference because of the death of founder Teddy Forstmann. Notably, Emanuel, who counts Silver Lake as a backer of the talent agency, does not attend the Allen & Co. confab in Sun Valley, Idaho."

May 13, 2013, Hollywood Reporter, 'The WME heads are working with Google executive chair Eric Schmidt to put together the event.': "A WME source tells THR that Emanuel and Whitesell are "part of the group" planning the conference but will not run it. Emanuel and Whitesell might have been testing the format last year at the agency's annual retreat, when it invited speakers outside the entertainment industry, such as Karl Rove, Al Gore and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Marc Andreessen. Schmidt reportedly also was in attendance. ... Forstmann and Emanuel were close friends, and they reportedly had discussed hosting a gathering together."

June 10, 2009, New York Times, 'Driven and Powerful, a Mogul Adds More Heft': ""Nobody wants to be on the wrong side of Ari Emanuel, especially now that his brother [Rahm Emanuel] is running the White House," said one television executive, said one television executive, who asked for anonymity to preserve harmony with him. ... Patrick Whitesell, a fellow co-chief of William Morris Endeavor [with Emanuel], have been spending time, on the golf course and off, with Theodore J. Forstmann."

June 10, 2009, Gawker, 'Rahm Emanuel Will Send You to Gitmo If You Cross Ari': "He merged his agency with William Morris and then fired everyone at William Morris. But we all know that Ari is relentlessly ambitious and cutthroat—in fact we know this is true of the entire Emanuel family... "

Source(s): September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "In the past the conference has featured such events as ... a political roundtable with NBC anchors Tom Brokaw and Andrea Mitchell [wife of Alan Greenspan], Fox News managing editor Brit Hume and the BBC’s Katty Kay."

Worked for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson from 1970 to 1972. ABC's chief White House correspondent 1989-1996. Managing editor of Fox News and anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume 1996-2008.

Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86 (visitor for that year)

Actress said to have has a long-lasting affair with Bill Clinton.

Source(s): January 16, 2003, Aspen Times, 'Isaacson to bring 'some energy' to Aspen Institute?': "Isaacson is no stranger to Aspen, having been here for previous Institute functions, to attend the high-level Forstmann, Little conferences in September, and to participate in industry discussions at the HBO Comedy Festival."; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (implied membership, as he gives an explanation about the Forstmann Conference)

Harvard. Attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar at Pembroke College, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). Chairman and CEO of CNN July 2001 - January 2003. President and CEO of the Aspen Institute from 2003 until 2017. Member CFR. Visited Bilderberg in 2004. Member of the U.S. Department of Defense Innovation Advisory Board. Has written biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

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Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86

Elite financier.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

President Forstmann Development Group LLC.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Superclass member.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for that year)

Senator.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for that year)

Hockey great.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; July 26, 2006, Aspen Times, 'Financier sells Red Mountain home' (past attendee)

Chairman Federal Reserve. Superclass member.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

atlassociety.org/about-us/staff/11-jennifer-a-grossman (accessed: March 25, 2018; promotes Atlas Shrugged of Ayn Rand; advisory board includes Steve Davis, Director of Advanced Projects of Elon Musk's SpaceX; other advisors are prestigious promoters of atheism): "A speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush, Grossman has written for both national and local publications. ... Served as Director of Education at the Cato Institute, and worked closely with the late philanthropist Theodore J. Forstmann to launch the Children's Scholarship Fund [in 1998]. ... She launched the Dole Nutrition Institute — a research and education organization — at the behest of Dole Chairman David H. Murdock. She continued this agenda as Health Editor of Laura Ingraham's new lifestyle site, LifeZette. ... A former Senior Vice President at Dole Food Company, became the CEO of the Atlas Society on March 1st, 2016."

Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference': "... a climate-change discussion with National Academy of Sciences President Dr. Ralph Cicerone, NASA's Dr. James Hansen, MIT professor Richard Lindzen and American Meteorological Society senior fellow Robert Correll."

NASA scientist.

September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "Besides Blair, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Stewart, other notables in attendance at this year’s four-day conference, according to sources and eyewitness accounts, include Ron Howard, George Lucas, and Nat Rothschild..."

Actor who played the red-headed teenager Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days, oppsite The Fonz. Movie director and producer who made Grand Theft Auto (1977; director and writer), Apollo 13 (1995, with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton; director), The Da Vinci Code (2006, starring Tom Hanks and based on Holy Grail and Opus Dei disinformation; Cunningham directed and produced it), Angels & Demons (2009, starring Tom Hanks; director and producer), Cowboys & Aliens (2011, starring Harrison Ford and based on the Zecharia Sitchin disinformation), Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012; producer), Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016, anti-Trump production with Johnny Depp; actor only), Inferno (2016, starring Tom Hanks; sequel to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons) and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018; director; produced by George Lucas).

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Anchor and senior editor ABC World News Tonight.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Hedge fund manager. Ally of George Soros.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Member of a top superclass family.

Source(s): November 21, 2011, Daily Beast, 'Teddy Forstmann’s Visionary Life of Making Big Deals and Helping Others': "Nobel laureate Eric Kandel ... recalled being dazzled by the sheer intellectual and political firepower of Forstmann's Aspen gathering, which in recent years has attracted ... King Abdullah of Jordan"

King of Jordan.

September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "Besides Blair, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Stewart, other notables in attendance at this year’s four-day conference, according to sources and eyewitness accounts, include Ron Howard, George Lucas, and Nat Rothschild..."

Rwandan Tutsi. Commanded the rebel force that ended the 1994 Rwandan genocide. President of Rwanda. Considered Rwanda's de facto leader when he served as vice president and minister of defense from 1994 to 2000. 4th president of Rwanda since 2000. Due to yet another change in the constitution, he could potentially be President until 2034. Head of the African Union since 2018.

Human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Freedom House, claim that Kagame hamstrings his opposition by restricting candidacies in elections to government-friendly parties, suppressing demonstrations, and arresting opposition leaders and journalists.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Anchor CNN Morning News.

Source(s): September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "In the past the conference has featured such events as ... a political roundtable with NBC anchors Tom Brokaw and Andrea Mitchell [wife of Alan Greenspan], Fox News managing editor Brit Hume and the BBC’s Katty Kay."

Daughter of a diplomat. Studied modern languages at Oxford University and speaks fluent French and Italian. Briefly worked for the Bank of England after graduation. Left to work for an aid agency in Zimbabwe. Joined the BBC in 1990 as Zimbabwe correspondent for the African section of the BBC World Service. Today she presents BBC World News America and, with Christian Fraser, co-hosts Beyond 100 Days on BBC Four, BBC News and BBC World News. She also appears weekly on NBC News in Morning Joe. Director of the International Women's Media Foundation. Makes frequent appearances as a guest panelist on The Chris Matthews Show, Morning Joe and Meet the Press on NBC, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, and in the past also appeared on Larry King Live on CNN.

Married to ex-BBC reporter and current Control Risks Group senior vice-president Tom Carver.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Has visited the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Son of the in 1968 assassination Martin Luther King.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Major neocon superclass member.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; findit.library.yale.edu, 'Kissinger with others at Forstmann Little Conference, Aspen': "circa 2009 ... box 227, folder 53... Number of Scans: 42..."

Most connected superclass member in the world.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

New England Patriots owner

Source(s): 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (speaker)

Major neocon superclass member.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; November 21, 2011, Daily Beast, 'Teddy Forstmann’s Visionary Life of Making Big Deals and Helping Others': "Elizabeth ["Betsy"] Lack, whose husband, Andrew, runs Bloomberg Television, has helped organize Forstmann’s conference for the past two decades."

Jewish. Joined CBS News in 1976. Producer of CBS' 60 Minutes 1977-1978. Executive producer CBS Reports 1978-1985. Worked with Soros / "liberal CIA" agent Bill Moyers in the early 80s as producer of Our Times With Bill Moyers (1983) and Crossroads (1984). President of NBC News 1993-2001. President and COO of NBC Universal 2001-2003. Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment 2003-2006. Chairman of Sony BMG 2006-2008. CEO of Bloomberg Media Group 2008-2013, chairman 2013-2014. Chairman of NBC News and MSNBC 2015-.

Wife Betsy Lack also serves as head of global brand strategy for Snapchat.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (speaker); findit.library.yale.edu, 'Kissinger with others at Forstmann Little Conference, Aspen': "circa 2009 ... box 227, folder 53... Number of [Photo] Scans: 42... [Various photos with Kissinger talking to Sherry Lansing, including a note that reads "Sherry Lansing"]..."

Jewish. Head script reader for MGM. Vice president in charge of production at Columbia 1978-1980. President of production of 20th Century Fox 1980-1984. In 1984, she joined Stanley R. Jaffe to form the independent production company, named Jaffee-Lansing. Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures 1992-2005. Produced blockbusters as Fatal Attraction, Forrest Gump, Braveheart. Regent of the University of California. Director of the American Red Cross. Serves on the executive committee of Friends of Cancer Research and Chairs STOP CANCER, a nonprofit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with the late Dr. Armand Hammer. Tom Cruise is her longtime friend and business partner.

Married to William Friedkin, the director of The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973) and Rules of Engagement (2000).

June 29, 1998, New York Magazine, 'Sun Valley Daze': "For the July 11 "Women and Business" discussion, Sawyer will moderate a panel comprising Barad, Von Furstenberg, the Washington Post Company's Katharine Graham, and ex-Disney executive Geraldine Laybourne. Talented players all, but where are Hollywood's three highest-ranking female executives (Paramount's Sherry Lansing and Sony's Lucy Fisher and Amy Pascal)? "I only wish," Pascal says. "They only invite women who own or run their companies -- at least from what I understand. I'd love to go. Hopefully, in time I will." (Not lost on at least one male invitee is the fact that the "Women and Business" panel is the last official order of business -- scheduled right after Bill Gates's 8:45 a.m. presentation. "Plenty of time to skip the women's nonsense and fly back to Los Angeles in time for lunch," he snorts.)"

Source(s): November 14, 1997, New York Times, '2d-Class Guests on 'A' Lists'.

Senior producer and editorial director of ABC's Good Morning America in the 1990s. Vice president and editor-in-chief of Reader's Diges 2001-2007. Founder and former editor-in-chief of The Fiscal Times, a news website she launched in February 2010. Wife of John Leo.

Source(s): November 14, 1997, New York Times, '2d-Class Guests on 'A' Lists'.

Writer for Time 1974-1987. Columnist for the U.S. News & World Report 1988-2006. His 1995 column on Time-Warner, terming it America's "leading cultural polluter", sparked the campaign that led to Time-Warner's decision to sell off its 50 percent share in Interscope Records, a heavy producer of gangsta rap. Served on the board of advisers of the Columbia Journalism Review for 10 years and on the church-state committee of the "liberal CIA"-funded American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for two years. Senior fellow Manhattan Institute 2007-. Husband of Jacqueline Leo.

Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference': "... a climate-change discussion with National Academy of Sciences President Dr. Ralph Cicerone, NASA's Dr. James Hansen, MIT professor Richard Lindzen and American Meteorological Society senior fellow Robert Correll."

MIT professor.

Source(s): September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (on the guest list for the canceled conference due to 9/11); October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for this year); September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis' (visitor for this year).

Famous director behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. Close friend of Senator Bill Bradley, a close Rockefeller ally in Bilderberg, the CFR and at JPMorgan Chase's international council, etc. Together with Bill Bradley, Lucas devised an anti-Trump ad, making the case that Trump was looking to use nuclear weapons.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

President and COO Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (visitor of a previous year); October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for that year); findit.library.yale.edu, 'Kissinger with others at Forstmann Little Conference, Aspen': "circa 2009 ... box 227, folder 53... Number of [Photo] Scans: 42... [One of the photos involves Mandela and Kissinger embracing each other]..."

Leader of South Africa. Favorite of the Rockefeller network.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (performer)

Hardball with Chris Matthews, on CNBC 1997–1999; and on MSNBC 1999-.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Wife of Chris Matthews. Anchor of an ABC Washington affiliate.

Source(s): 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (speaker)

Major superclass member.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference'

Covered the White House for NBC 1981-1988. Chief congressional correspondent for NBC 1998-1992. Chief White House Correspondent for NBC 1993–1994. NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent.

She married her second husband, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, twenty years her senior, on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship.

Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference'

Chairman and CEO Bharti Televentures in India at the time of his invitation.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

CBS chief and senior Viacom executive. Long-time visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Chairman and CEO Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

First chief technology officer of Microsoft 1996-1999. Regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Brazilian-American entrepreneur who has founded four commercial airlines, Morris Air, Westjet, JetBlue Airways and Azul Brazilian Airlines. He is also the co-owner of another commercial airline in Europe, TAP Air Portugal.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Major superclass member. Visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Chairman and CEO of Nokia. Invited to the 2002 Rothschild conference at Waddesdon Manor, organized by Lord Jacob Rothschild and Warren Buffett. Rockefeller favorites as James Wolfensohn and Paul Volcker were in attendance, just as two neocon representatives of the Bush administration.

Source(s): 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (speaker)

New age diet guru, including to the Clintons.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Founder and head of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a Hollywood talent agency. Once known as “the most powerful man in Hollywood.” Regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Co-CEO and vice chairman Teledesic, LLC. Early investors in the 1990s were Bill Gates and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.

Source(s): November 21, 2011, Daily Beast, 'Teddy Forstmann’s Visionary Life of Making Big Deals and Helping Others': ""He was such a visionary in connecting people," said longtime conference attendee Mehmet Oz, the cardiothoracic surgeon..."

Cardiothoracic surgeon. Came to general prominence with appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show beginning in 2004, and later on Larry King Live and other TV shows. Hosts daytime television's popular Dr. Oz Show.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

MPH from Harvard University in 1993. Professor at Harvard Medical School in the late 1990s. Professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Physician in geriatrics at Boston Medical Center. Hormone and anti-aging expert. Principal investigator of the Long Life Family Study, funded by the National Institute on Aging.

September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "In the past the conference has featured such events as a ... discussion on Iraq with Gen. David Petraeus..."

Iraq commander who became CIA director.

Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86 (visitor for that year)

Director. Close friend of Herb Allen and annual visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; 2000 Forstmann Conference paper (speaker); September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (on the guest list for the canceled conference due to 9/11); September 14, 2006, Denver Post, 'Hushed Aspen to host cerebral confab'; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'; findit.library.yale.edu, 'Kissinger with others at Forstmann Little Conference, Aspen': "circa 2009 ... box 227, folder 53... Number of Scans: 42... [Powell visible in one of the pictures]..."

General, national security advisor and secretary of state.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae.

Source(s): September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference': "Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is scheduled to speak today to corporate leaders at the Forstmann Little and Co. conference in Aspen. According to an Aspen local who has seen the itinerary for the elite private conference taking place at the Hotel Jerome, Ridge is to speak at the conference this morning, followed by Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. ... On Tuesday of this week, Ridge was on Capitol Hill lobbying for passage of legislation to create a Homeland Security Department. ... On Saturday, the Eagles are expected to play a private concert for the attendees at the Wheeler Opera House. ... It was reported in the New York Post and the Rocky Mountain News that 300 people were expected to attend last September’s event..."

Homeland Security director.

Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86 (visitor for that year)

Former NATO chief. Top British superclass member.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Graduated from Columbia Law School in 1979. Senior counsel to the House of Representatives Telecommunications Subcommittee 1981 to at least 1984, drafting a number of communication laws, including the Cable Act of 1984. Led to the development of the cable industry. Executive vice president of NBC and first president of CNBC Cable (later NBC Universal Cable) 1987-1996. As NBC Cable president, Rogers was involved in establishing of Court TV (now truTV) in 1991 and the Independent Film Channel in 1994. June 16, 1993, Variety, 'ABC, NBC & Hearst buy up rest of A&E': "NBC's cable holdings now include the wholly owned CNBC and investment stakes in MSNBC, A&E, the History Channel and Rainbow Media... Rockefeller Group Inc., which was one of A&E's founding partners." Co-chairman of the board of A&E Television Networks and The History Channel for 10 years. Established MSNBC in 1996. NBC's chief strategist, negotiator and troubleshooter in developing new business units, including Internet and interactive operations, 1996-1999. Helped set up the first National Geographic Channels in 1997. Chairman and CEO of Primedia, Inc., owner of New York Magazine and many additional media properties, 1999-2003. May 8, 2013, AdAge.com, 'Primedia Dismantles Media Central Properties': "Primedia's controlling shareholder is the New York investment firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts [of elites Henry Kravis and Marie-Josee Kravis]." President and CEO of TiVo 2005-2016, chairman 2016-. Senior operating executive for media and entertainment for Cerberus Capital Management.

October 18, 2013, Broadcastingcable.com, 'Tom Rogers': ""A lot of people become experts in one area," says David Zaslav [became president of NBC Cable in 1999], president and CEO of Discovery Communications, who worked with Rogers at NBC and later sat on TiVo's board for nearly 10 years. "But Tom has this enormous intellectual curiosity that has allowed him to become an expert in so many areas. I'd have to say he is probably the most knowledgeable entertainment executive I know.""

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; 2000 Forstmann Conference paper; May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86; September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference'; September 28, 2009, Fortune, 'Why business loves Charlie Rose': "[Charlie Rose] spearheads the Forstmann Little conference held each fall in Aspen, at which Rose is the principal interviewer of special guests..."; November 21, 2011, Daily Beast, 'Teddy Forstmann’s Visionary Life of Making Big Deals and Helping Others': "Charlie Rose, who became a close friend after Forstmann asked him to moderate the conference panels in Aspen a dozen years ago."; September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "In the past the conference has featured such events as a Charlie Rose interview with President Bill Clinton..."

Famous, but now disgraced PBS and CBS host. Long-time visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; findit.library.yale.edu, 'Kissinger with others at Forstmann Little Conference, Aspen': "circa 2009 ... box 227, folder 53... Number of [Photo] Scans: 42... [Various photos with Kissinger talking to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, including a note that reads "Evelyn de Rothschild"]..."

Elitist discussed in various ISGP articles.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.

September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis': "Besides Blair, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Stewart, other notables in attendance at this year’s four-day conference, according to sources and eyewitness accounts, include Ron Howard, George Lucas, and Nat Rothschild..."

Son of Lord Jacob Rothschild.

Source(s): September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (on the guest list for the canceled conference due to 9/11)

Bush politician.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Secretary of defense under George W. Bush. Major neocon superclass member.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

South Carolina governor.

Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference'; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Long-time Google CEO. Long-time visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Commander in chief of Operation Desert Storm, the 1990-1991 invasion of Iraq, and the 2006 Operation Desert Shield, also in Iraq. Known visitor of Le Cercle.

Source(s): September 14, 2006, Denver Post, 'Hushed Aspen to host cerebral confab'; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Tennis champ.

Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq's president at Aspen conference'

Former chair and CEO of Warner Brothers who met Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang at the Sun Valley in 1999 and subsequently became chairman and CEO of Yahoo!. Visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for that year)

Top Superclass member.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Washington Redskins owner.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (visitor for that year)

Football hall of famer.

1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 22, 2011, Aspen Daily News, 'Top secret conference held this weekend at the St. Regis'

American businesswoman, writer, and television personality.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Political elitist. Visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): September 14, 2006, Denver Post, 'Hushed Aspen to host cerebral confab'

British Foreign Secretary.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list

Chairman and CEO of the Sony Corporation of America. Visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): September 15, 2006, Denver Post, 'Iraq’s president at Aspen conference': "The annual affair is strictly hush-hush and all discussions are off the record. ... The conference began with an opening reception and dinner at the Hotel Jerome on Thursday night and attendees are scheduled to depart Sunday."; September 18, 2007, Deadline, 'Is Endeavor Playing Into IMG's Hands?': "Unlike Camp Allen which gets plenty of publicity, Camp Forstmann’s organizers refuse to even confirm the event exists. (Which no doubt is why its attendees last year included Iraqi President Jalai Talabani and other security nightmares.) As it happens, Camp Forstmann is coming up: I've learned it will be held during the last week in September headquartered at the base of Aspen Mountain in the St. Regis Resort."

Irai Kurd. Leader of Kurdistan 1975-2017. Iraqi president 2006-2014.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86: "George Tenet ... and Sir Richard Dearlove ... are also on hand ... as guests of the man friends warmly refer to as "Teddy Bear.""

CIA chief. Long-time, regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Prexy hopeful.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

Billionaire and right-wing politician - but one who despises Trump. History at Walt Disney, Dreamworks, Pierre Omidyar's eBay and Hewlett Packard. Long-time, regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): 1999 Forstmann Conference paper, including attendee list; September 20, 2002, Aspen Times, 'Ridge to speak at private conference' (visitor of a previous year); October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen' (listed as past visitor)

Long-time, regular visitor of the nearby Sun Valley Meetings. Biography included in the Sun Valley membership list.

Source(s): October 2, 2007, Denver Post, 'Big brains, bold names meet again in Aspen'

NBC anchor.

Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86 (attendee for that year)

Prince Andrew of Great Britain.

Source(s): May 2004, Aspen magazine, 'When the Stars Come Out', pp. 84-86: "Charlie Rose is leading a round-table discussion with famed journalist Bob Woodward, NBC news achor Brian Williams, ABC political-news director Mark Halperin, and CNN national correspondent Kelly Wallace..."

Watergate journalist. Subsequently wrote 18 books on American politics, 12 of which topped best-seller lists.