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unusual facts about Carlyle Group



Alaska Dispatch

In 2009, Alice Rogoff, former U.S. News & World Report chief financial officer and wife of Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, bought a majority share in the website, and the organization moved into a hangar located along Anchorage's Merrill Field Airport, where Rogoff, a licensed pilot, also houses her Cessna 206.

Craig Unger

According to Newsweek, George W. Bush couldn't have been involved with the Carlyle Group, which owned BDM, when the $1.18 billion deal was made, because "former president Bush didn't join the Carlyle advisory board until April, 1998—five months after Carlyle had already sold BDM to another defense firm."

Joël André Ornstein

After pursuing corporate finance at the First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse), in the era of the Joe Perella and Bruce Wasserstein deal-making duo, he was called in 1989 by his former boss, Frank Carlucci, then chairman of the nascent private equity firm, The Carlyle Group, to help establish the firm overseas.

PanAmSat

In 2003, News Corporation purchased Hughes Electronic's PanAmSat division and on April 24, 2004 sold PanAmSat to a consortium of private equity firms in a leveraged buyout including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners for $4.3 billion.

Vought

Vought was sold from LTV and owned in various degrees by the Carlyle Group and Northrop Grumman in the early 1990s.


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Deirdre Bolton

In recent months, Bolton has interviewed Wall Street players, government official, key decision makers and sports personalities such as PIMCO strategic adviser Richard Clarida, Carlyle Group Co-Founder David Rubenstein, Sam Zell, Roger Altman, Wilbur Ross, Nokia CFO Rick Simonson, President Barack Obama’s chief economist Christina Romer, Congressman Elijah Cummings, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King and Terrell Owens.

Vought

Northrop Grumman, the successor to Northrop and Grumman, bought out the Carlyle Group's share of Vought for $130 million in 1994.