Tim Cook Is Among Guests at Trump’s First State Dinner

  • France’s Richest Man, Bernard Arnault, also attends fete
  • Many corporate titans at president’s first state dinner

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Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, leveraged buy-out billionaire Henry Kravis and Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman were among the guests Tuesday at the first state dinner of Donald Trump’s presidency, a formal fete for French President Emmanuel Macron.

Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Fluence Corp chairman Ron Lauder, FedEx Corp. CEO Fred Smith and Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man and chairman of luxury-goods maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, also were among the corporate titans attending the White House celebration.