Life of Google CEO Eric Schmidt

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This was funny to read:

 

"A source said: ‘He has been very supportive of her music career. Eric is getting increasingly interested in the arts.’"

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-23...undproofed.html

 

Billionaire Google boss Eric Schmidt is fiercely protective over his colorful and complex private life which includes a string of affairs.

 

In the past few years and despite his marriage to wife Wendy, Schmidt has had relationships with a series of younger women, including a vivacious television host who dubbed him ‘Dr Strangelove,' a leggy blonde public relations executive and a sexy Vietnamese concert pianist.

 

Now details have emerged that 58-year-old Schmidt has splashed out $15 million on a sprawling Manhattan penthouse in the trendy Flatiron District to be close to at least two of his female friends.

 

Schmidt has been seeing at least two New York-based women in Lisa Shields, an executive on the Council on Foreign Relations, and Vietnamese pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen.

The glamorous love-nest was featured in Oliver Stone’s ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ movie as the crash pad for Shia LaBeouf’s character. So fiercely protective is Schmidt of his own - and his guests privacy - that he has insisted he doesn't want a doorman. ‘While everyone in New York wants a doorman, Eric specifically said he didn’t want one. He doesn’t want anyone to see him and his guests coming in and out. He insisted on his own elevator,’ a source familiar with the purchase told the New York Post.

 

With money no object to the billionaire, he has also invested in getting the 6,250-square-foot duplex - which has four bedrooms and a large entertainment area with a wet bar opening onto a 3,300-square-foot terrace - soundproofed to ensure complete privacy. Meanwhile his wife Wendy, 57, remains at one of the couple’s many homes, a $23million waterfront mansion on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, where she focuses on her philanthropic work amid reports that she has accepted their ‘open marriage’.

 

Schmidt, worth an estimated $8.2billion, is believed to have had at least one mistress sign a confidentiality agreement not to divulge any details of their relationship.

Stunning TV personality Kate Bohner, aged 46, had a three-year affair with the married mogul from 2007 to 2010. ‘As far as Kate was concerned it was true love,’ her close friend Jason Parsley, a journalist, told the MailOnline. ‘She adored Eric. This wasn’t some short-term fling. This was a serious love affair that went on for three years.

 

'The reason I am speaking out now is that it is ironic that someone like him can be so free and easy discussing other people’s privacy issues online while using his vast wealth to protect his own image.’

 

Bohner moved to Los Angeles to be near Schmidt, whose property empire includes a home near Google’s Silicon Valley HQ, and a $38 million estate in Montecito, California.

Bohner laid bare her feelings for Schmidt, whom she jokingly called ‘Dr Strangelove,’ in an online blog: Recoverygirl007. She revealed he had given her a prototype iPhone (late Apple boss Steve Jobs was a friend of Schmidt’s), whisked her away for romantic getaways and lavished her with expensive jewelry. She wrote of her pain at their breakup, saying: ‘I’ve been sleeping with my Blackberry just in case Dr Strangelove might send an email.’ At the time of the affair, Schmidt was at the height of his power. He was brought in as Google’s CEO in 2001 by creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who relied on his expertise to turn their modest internet search engine into a global media powerhouse. But Google has been criticized for not doing more to protect users, particularly children, against the proliferation of porn on the web.

 

Google, which says it has a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on child sexual abuse content, has argued policing the billions of images, stories and data generated daily on the internet would be a Herculean task and any controls could inadvertently restrict legitimate online searches. It says parents can use Google ‘filters’ like SafeSearch to prevent children accessing pornography.

‘What I worry about is that such laws are often slippery slopes,’ Eric Schmidt told a conference in May 2012. ‘In many other countries, adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else.’

 

But a source who knows Schmidt well defended him, saying: ‘Eric is integral to the success of Google and in enabling it to become a hugely successful company that employs 35,000 people around the world and is a service that is much-loved by its users. He was a great CEO and very well regarded as someone with extraordinary technical knowledge and great business acumen.’ Bohner did not return calls or emails this week, possibly bound by her believed confidentiality agreement, but her close friend Parsley insisted: ‘It was a serious romance, at least as far as she was concerned. ‘To my knowledge he would pay for her to travel to see him. He was always promising her he would get divorced. She cried on my shoulder countless times. She believed wholeheartedly he was going to leave his wife for her.’

 

Schmidt and Bohner were photographed together at the Burning Man festival in 2007, a gathering in the Nevada desert which showcases art and encourages creative thinking.

The couple wore goggles and bandanas to protect themselves from sandstorms. Schmidt posed with his arm around his mistress, although he refused to join the masses camping in the desert, preferring a five-hour round trip to the nearest hotel. Parsley continued: ‘They communicated a lot by phone and email when they were not together. But it devastated Kate that he would chose to spend holidays with his family. It was always the same, Thanksgiving, Christmas, all the big ones. ‘I am speaking out because Kate has been the victim of unfair comments online. In any affair, the woman always gets the blame – “Oh, she knew he was married.”

 

‘Well, in this case it’s not so cut and dried. Yes, Eric was and is married. But he needs to look at himself long and hard and start living a truthful life. Eric wants to have his cake and eat it too. He has had numerous affairs and everybody knows it.’ Like Bohner, Schmidt’s other reported girlfriends have been glamorous, successful women of a certain age. There was Marcy Simon, a leggy blonde PR executive in her mid-40s who was spotted with him on holiday on the French Riviera in 2006 and, according to reports, remains close to him still. He gave her a large, canary-yellow diamond ring.

 

Website Gawker.com reported on their split in December 2007, and also alleged that the couple rekindled their relationship in 2009, when they were reportedly spotted together at the Aspen Ideas Conference in Colorado and in California. Schmidt was also linked to Lisa Shields a 47-year-old divorced single mother who worked as a producer for America’s top-rated breakfast show Good Morning America. According to the New York Post, in 2011 Schmidt took her on holidays aboard his $72.3million superyacht Oasis to the Caribbean and the South of France. They were spotted dining out in the millionaire’s playground of Southampton in upstate New York, and according to the New York Post were ‘also spending time at a summer rental in the Hamptons’. A source told the Post at the time: ‘She has been telling friends they are dating and they have been going out openly in New York and the Hamptons as a couple.’

Shields now works as a publicist for the Council On Foreign Relations in New York, and speaking from her weekend home in the Hamptons did not deny her reported relationship with Eric Schmidt, but added: ‘I never comment on my personal life.’

 

Schmidt’s most recent affair, according to the New York Post (which has taken particular delight in his extramarital interests) was with sultry Vietnamese concert pianist Chau-Giang Nguyen, with whom he has been spotted dining at upscale New York restaurants. A source said: ‘He has been very supportive of her music career. Eric is getting increasingly interested in the arts.’ Nguyen, who declined to comment on their relationship, was previously engaged to Hollywood producer Brian Grazer. Wendy Schmidt failed to respond to requests from the MailOnline for comment about her marriage. She met her husband at Berkeley University in the late 1970s and they married in 1980. They have two grown-up daughters, Sophie and Alison, who remain close to their father. In her only comments on the subject, Wendy told the New York Times: ‘Some couples are very much in each others’ space. In our case, we are both busy. I think it’s nonsense and, between us, if we know what is going on in our lives and we are happy, that kind of stuff is part of his being in the public eye.’ She added she would tire of ‘following’ her husband around the globe: ‘I would feel like a piece of luggage, and he wouldn’t want me to feel that way.’ When asked about his open marriage Mr Schmidt told The New York Times : ‘I don’t think that is an appropriate question. We don’t comment on that, rumors.’

 

Schmidt hit back at critics of Google who argue the company should be more concerned about protecting people’s privacy, saying: ‘If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.’

 

It is, perhaps, advice he would be wise to heed himself.

Wendy is one of the nicest women I have ever come across. She does a lot for Nantucket, good woman.

He's an arrogant fucktard from the impression I got before. I remember this from some number of years ago, when privacy issues regarding Google began to spring up. Schmidt was rather nonchalant and hand-waving about it, so then a journalist went and, using Google, dug up quite a bit of personal information about Schmidt, ranging from the specific address of where he lived, to some other things. Well he was NOT HAPPY about that.

 

And I really despise the claim that if you have privacy concerns, well then you "shouldn't be doing it in the first place." That's akin to the overzealous law enforcement (not saying all law enforcement, just the ones who are overzealous) who say that you shouldn't be concerned about the ability of police to spy on you because if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you should have nothing to be worried about. Privacy is because you don't want people to know your business, not because you want to hide illegal or morally questionable activity.

 

I do understand that it would probably be difficult for Google (or impossible even) for them to secure privacy to the degree some might want, but they should at least respect the concern.

The source of the story is the daily mail ergo tread with caution as it is a vile collection of villainous bog eyed gremlin off spring fcuk pigs. Basically they are like a British version of Fox News but with a microgram more credibility.

Basically they are like a British version of Fox News but with a microgram more credibility.

 

Explain

I dont hold the same feelings with you towards foxnews. Personally im thankful we have at least one right leaning new source compared to all the others....

I dont hold the same feelings with you towards foxnews. Personally im thankful we have at least one right leaning new source compared to all the others....

 

Explain

 

Cappy, the general media is so leftwing that even if one considers Fox too far to the right, they serve as a great check on the otherwise leftwing media. One only need look at the huge amount of favorable coverage and cover that the media gave Obama over issues like the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA spying, etc...they went absolutely BANANAS over President Bush's policies, making out as if he was essentially making us a few steps short of becoming Nazi Germany. ONE COULD ONLY IMAGINE what the coverage would have been had the IRS scandal happened under Bush, with the IRS engaged in oppression of leftwing media organizations and journalists, had the NSA spying occurred under Bush, had Benghazi occurred under Bush, only for him to then fly off to a fundraising party in Las Vegas afterwards, etc...Fox at least provides a decent check to the general media on these kinds of things. Yes sometimes Fox can have credibility problems, but no more than any of the rest of the media from what I have seen. If anything, less so.

A news source providing a check on the other news sources and for that you stick up them?

I can not begin to explain what a batshit mental approach that is.

 

 

I met him at Burningman a few years ago, and partied with him and his group of other google guys, heck of a nice guy, like most people there, dont think his wife was with him, who am I to judge, what works for him works...more power to him...

 

A news source providing a check on the other news sources and for that you stick up them?

I can not begin to explain what a batshit mental approach that is.

 

A news source providing a check on the other news sources and for that you stick up them?

I can not begin to explain what a batshit mental approach that is.

Msnbc and cnn are 24 hour spoutings of liberal left politics and presidential apologist. They won't touch or mention any wrong doings from this administration with a 10 foot pole.

I'm extremely thankful we have FOX to keep the stories that the left would rather have us ignore or forget about relevant.

Msnbc and cnn are 24 hour spoutings of liberal left politics and presidential apologist. They won't touch or mention any wrong doings from this administration with a 10 foot pole.

I'm extremely thankful we have FOX to keep the stories that the left would rather have us ignore or forget about relevant.

 

Couple that with the fact that there is a cross section in the United States that is so generally politically uneducatated, they try to follow the masses with the "cool thing to do" and bash fox news. I get tired of hearing it, especially when the claims are usually false and out in right field.

A news source providing a check on the other news sources and for that you stick up them?

I can not begin to explain what a batshit mental approach that is.

 

Considering how crap and ideological the other news sources are, you bet I will stick up for them. I find it odd that you single them out in comparison to the others. MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, etc...are not exactly bastions of hard, non-biased journalism. Remember your hard passionate criticism of the pro-Scottish independence people? Imagine if the whole UK media had been completely pro-independence for Scotland, and not bothering to address any of the concerns on why many see that as a bad idea.

 

That is how the majority of the American media is regarding Obama and the Democratic party.

Considering how crap and ideological the other news sources are, you bet I will stick up for them. I find it odd that you single them out in comparison to the others. MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, etc...are not exactly bastions of hard, non-biased journalism. Remember your hard passionate criticism of the pro-Scottish independence people? Imagine if the whole UK media had been completely pro-independence for Scotland, and not bothering to address any of the concerns on why many see that as a bad idea.

 

That is how the majority of the American media is regarding Obama and the Democratic party.

 

Well said Wheels!!!