Heck that's nothing... $7 MILLION BIRTHDAY BASH
by the New York Post, Nov 13, 2002
TEXAS billionaire David Bonderman is throwing himself one hell of a 60th-birthday party. The buyout king - a founding partner of the Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm - has booked dozens of rooms at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for this weekend and hired the Rolling Stones to entertain his guests. Bonderman is said to be spending $7 million on the weekend. Mick Jagger and his bandmates will join up with John Mellencamp on Saturday to play at the Hard Rock's concert venue, the Joint, after a private dinner hosted by funnyman Robin Williams. Bonderman is having a temporary staircase built in the Joint, so guests won't have to leave the hall - and mingle with uninvited casino patrons - to get from the main room to the VIP balcony. Reps for Jagger, Williams and Mellencamp had "heard nothing about this."
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Jay Bray is being referred to. "Maybe he is selling to pay for summer vacations….to him coop is a cash cow"