Pursuits
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall Root for U.S. at Think-Tank Gala
- Gorman, Loeb, Black also attend Hudson Institute Dinner
- Murdoch: 'Around our country is a restless desire for revival'
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Rupert Murdoch agreed that a rugby match is more fun than a gala. But the media tycoon did what he could to make the Hudson Institute Global Leadership Award Dinner interesting: Jerry Hall, in flats, was his date (as she was at the Rugby World Cup final, where Murdoch’s homeland of Australia lost to the Kiwis). And he chose a team to root for -- America.
“The U.S.A. must understand and be proud of and assert the American personality," Murdoch, 84, said in front of 380 guests in the Plaza Hotel ballroom. They included Morgan Stanley’s chairman and chief executive officer, James Gorman, also Australian-born; Point72 Asset Management President Doug Haynes; Third Point CEO Dan Loeb; and Apollo Global Management Chairman and CEO Leon Black.