Posted on 04/09/2007 7:50:56 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
He used to be a family friend who joined them on ski trips.
But now business mogul Paul Fribourg is the other man in the Paula Zahn-Richard Cohen breakup - and something for the warring spouses to argue about.
"[Cohen] and Paula disagree over how long her thing with Paul has been going on," a friend of the couple said.
As the marriage of the CNN anchorwoman and the wealthy developer publicly implodes, Fribourg is said to be on vacation with his Moroccan-born wife, Josabeth, with whom he has four kids and an upper East Side brownstone.
Fribourg, 53, is a philanthropist and chairman of ContiGroup Companies, a sixth-generation family business that is one of the largest privately held corporations in the U.S.
His romance with Zahn, 51, could be bad news for the newscaster, whose contract to host "Paula Zahn Now" expires in December. Even before this, it wasn't clear whether they would renew it," said the friend of the couple. "Will they use this as an excuse to get rid of her?".........."
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
You want lots of anaesthetic for a brownstone delivery.
zzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiipppp
(paula zahn promo flashback)
hey hey paula i've been waiting for you
hey hey paul i want to marry you to
True love means planning our life for two,
being together the whole day through.
True love means waiting and hoping that soon
wishes we made, will come true,
my love, my love.
What’s with the hair? Bad toupee’?
I predict this divorce is going to get more public. No indication on what the Fribourgs may do yet. Two middle aged couples involved with kids and lots of assets. No way this will not get nasty.
It would be more appropriate now!
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
They’ll dump Zahn because she’s fifty-one and doesn’t do boo in the ratings. And the day after she’s gone people will be saying Paula Who?
And trust me, you don't want to see the forceps. (Shudder)
Could be. I wonder if the notoriety of the divorce will actually bump her ratings up.
Looks like he was drunk in the gutter when the street paver came by.
Now that could get ugly.
Who does he think he is... Benny Hinn? All he needs is the swoosh effect.
No need to wait that long:
Paula WHO?
LOL!
It's gotta be tough trying to be a 51-year-old anchor-babe when there are some REAL babes out there!
No, I think being 51 and talentless is bad news enough for Paula...
Nevertheless, Paul Fribourg is a huge Democratic donor, giving as much as he can — hundreds of thousands of dollars according to public records — to every Democratic candidate, including New York senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer. He also gave $37,000 to the campaign of New York’s new governor, Eliot Spitzer.
In the 2006 cycle, the Fribourgs (including Paul, wife Josabeth and brother Charles) donated $81,000 to Democratic causes, including $45,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
The Fribourgs are also charitable, giving away about $1 million a year to various groups. And while they are wealthy beyond almost definition, it’s unclear how Paul Fribourg has fared as head of the company. He advised his father to sell the grain operation to their competitor, Cargill, in 1994. According to the New York Times, his father only agreed when he was assured his employees would be safe.
When Paul Fribourg took over completely in 1996, and he immediately ramped up a division called ContiFinancial, which dealt in subprime lending on mortgages and leases.
Within two years there was trouble, and by the end of 1999 ContiFinancial — with no mention of Fribourg attached — had filed for bankruptcy. They claimed more than $1.3 billion in debt, including $700,000 to Norwest Bank of Minnesota. They wound up laying off 2,700 employees before disappearing entirely in 2001.
Fribourg now runs ContiGroup, a spin-off of the original company. He sits on the boards of Vivendi Universal, The Public Theater and Loews Corporation. He and his Moroccan-born wife, Josabeth, live in a palatial townhouse near the Guggenheim Museum with their seven children.
On the ContiGroup’s Web site, Fribourg concludes his CEO’s letter saying that he’s excited about: “forging strong partnerships and moving ahead in promising new directions.”
Will they be with Paula Zahn? The betting money says no, a divorce would come at an astronomical price. But then again stranger things have happened.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264866,00.html
Her “SHOW” has about 5 viewers......It’s a left wing hit job on anything Republican!
According to the New York Times, his father only agreed when he was assured his employees would be safe.
That’s old school and how businessmen used to care about their employees. Good for him.
She is still one of the best looking anchor-babes in the business. On ocassion, she actuallys asked a relevant question, as opposed to Baba Waahwaah, perky Katie Couric (still a good looking chick),and the other info-babes on CNN and MSLSD and the three Stooges (I mean, 3 main networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC).
Hey, even we older guys have some taste left.
But if you want hot “babes”, go to CSI: Las Vegas and Miami. Forget the crime and forensics. Helgenberg, Delaney, Proctor. They weren’t in my CSI classes.
LOL! I hope I look that good when I’m 51!
Thanks for posting that. Fribourg may keep quiet after all.
It’s funny. I was just watching CSI Miami this evening and wondering if everyone in Miami is really that beautiful — surely not the CSI types! If you judge by the show, apparently every home, hotel, business and government lab in Miami is stunning as well!
You must be old.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_cartel_companies.html
History: Simon Fribourg founded the predecessor
organization as a commodity-trading company in Arlon, Belgium in 1813. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the Fribourg family went into milling, building mills in Luxembourg and Belgium, especially Antwerp, which, with its deep harbors and connections to the Rhine River, transported Fribourg flour and wheat to and from the rest of Europe. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Michel Fribourg, a great-grandson of founder Simon, went with bags of gold to Bessarabia (today Moldova and Romania) to buy grain. This was a large grain-producing region. By 1914, the heirs of the family, under the name Fribourg Frères, moved operations to London, to capitalize on the ability to trade grain internationally. In 1920, the headquarters moved again, this time to Paris, and the company’s name changed to Compagnie Continentale. Thus, 100 years after its founding in 1813, the Continental Company had established firm links into the cities and channels of the European grain trade, as well as to Australia, through London.
In 1921, the Continental Company opened an office in Chicago, and another in New York. In 1930, it leased a terminal in Galveston, Texas. During the Depression of the 1930s, the Continental Company made out like bandits. As reported in one history, the head of the family, Jules Fribourg, instructed his New York agent to buy Midwest grain elevators, which were at depressed prices, with the instructions, “Don’t bother to look at them—just buy them.” The Fribourgs lived very, very well. René Fribourg, the co-head of the company, lived like a Medici prince, collected gold snuff boxes and Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, and dined off eighteenth-century china. But when the Nazi Army invaded France in June 1940, the Fribourgs fled to America.
In 1968-69, the Fribourgs, working with the Cargill company, and through an agent of the grain cartel in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Clarence Palmby, helped destroy the American merchant fleet, by convincing President Nixon that the “50-50” provision, by which half of all American grain exports had to be carried on American vessels, should be abolished, in order to land a large Russian grain deal. Almost all of the grain went on Russian-bottom boats. Various favors paid off, for, in 1973, the Russians rewarded Continental by making an unprecedented purchase from the company of 6 million tons of grain and soybeans. The head of Continental was and remains Michel Fribourg. His personal financial adviser, Sasha Maximov, was the son of the last czarist ambassador to Constantinople, a post usually held by a Venetian agent.
In 1976, Continental was fined $500,000 for short-weighting ships. In the late 1970s, when Zaire, which was very poor, was unable to pay its bills, Continental cut off food shipments to that starving nation. In the 1970s, Continental became the first grain company to sell grain to China.
Key personnel and policy: The heir apparent of the company is Michel Fribourg’s son, Paul, who, at the age of 41, is president of Continental. Michel Fribourg, great-great-grandson of Continental’s founder, and his immediate family, own 90% of Continental’s stock (other members of the Fribourg family own the rest). The Oct. 17, 1994 issue of Forbes magazine lists the worth of Michel Fribourg alone at $1 billion.
The guy is Old money. He does not appear to be that great a businessman himself but he does not have to be. His function is to breed and pass on the dynasty.
You're married with Children, making millions and you are creeping with PAULA ZHAN?
What an idiot. If I am going to risk it all....it AINT gonnas be with Paula Friggin Zhan!
Just curious as to why that would matter somehow ...
Remember when Rush danced with Paula Zahn? haha.
Paula Zahn and Cohen.
I’m so old that I remember Marilyn Monroe’s 1950’s calendar photo for Playboy.
Now there was one beautiful woman, and a very good, and funny actress. She had class and was a nice person. Really do miss her. Nothing like “Some Like It Hot” to make you laugh.
Re the Zahn-Cohen photo. She’s so hot that she even got his hair standing straight up!
Not bad for a 51 year old woman. Then again, Ann Margaret is older and still prettier and classier.
Hey gang. A few months ago I got an autographed picture from Jacqueline Bisset, a photo when she was about 21 years old. My God this woman was beautiful, and still looks good.
We “older” men still have very good taste. No pop-tarts for us, i.e. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, etc).
“And trust me, you don’t want to see the forceps.”
I believe they are called a ‘dragline’!
LOL - yes, that one was always good for a laugh!
CSI: Miami is not a bad show, if you can get past David Caruso’s “Gun” pose and the sunglasses. The guy is painful to watch, he’s so plastic and “posed” all the time.
I just watched a 'Law and Order' with Linda Carter. Wow
She is still beautiful. What a bod!!!
OTOH Paula doesn't do anything for me. Different strokes...
This is the first I heard that Paula was married. Her show is boring and this will give CNN an excuse to dump her.
Bleach-headed ho
A Jew married to an Arab, and cheating on her on his Jewish best friend's gentile wife. A Democrat mega-donor whose company preys on the most vulnerable Americans with subprime mortgages. "Hypocrisy" doesn't quite do justice to this guy.
Looks like he goes to Jim Ignatowski’s hair stylist.
“ContiFinancial, which dealt in subprime lending on mortgages and leases.”
Don’t worry, since he donated the max to Schumer(sp) I understand there are plans in the works for a public bail-out on the subprime mortgages.
I agree. I couldn’t believe it when some critic — can’t recall which one — said he was the best actor of the bunch! I like Gary Sinese.
You are dating yourself Max. Those are still hot babes to my mind. For the slightly more mature, how about Angie Dickinson?
CNN doesn't have them either. Nor is CNN getting any younger...
Maybe Joe Klein should fire the network.
You got that right. What is the appeal of that bozo anyway? Does anybody on that program have an ounce of personality? And I love how these scientific CSI types segue from looking at slides to interrogating perps, as if it were part of the job.
I am sure the lawyers are already circling like sharks...they smell money in the air like blood in the water.
No doubt this will manage to eventually displace any events of historical significance from the airwaves as soon as it is 'needed'.
If Jihadis worldwide laid down their weapons, renounced Allah and Mohammed, and proclaimed conversion to Christianity, the Zahn Divorce would be on the front page above the fold...
His head looks like it was dipped upside down in white then dark chocolate, you know, like they do with strawberries.
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