Please identify which well-known financier the following passage is about, from the latest issue of Vanity Fair.
“One of the rules at the gym was you don’t drop your weights– they can get damaged,” recalls Tim Gardner, an assistant manager at Total Fitness, “but I can still see him sitting on the bench, doing curls, and then standing up and dropping these weights from as far up as he could do. And people would turn and look at him. It was just for the attention, see? He loved to be in the limelight like that. I think if you looked up ‘narcissist’ in the dictionary, you’d find [this person]‘s picture.”
“I’ll never forget the first time I met [this person],” says Gary Findley, who managed the gym for a time. “I was inside the gym, and I heard this loud noise outside. I mean, loud. I couldn’t figure out what it was, so I walked outside. He was landing in the middle of our running track in a private helicopter.”
Who is Sir R. Allen Stanford Alex…
Its a good article. I just read it. The dude is screwed.
charlie gasparino
Wouldn’t it be easier to figure out who this is NOT? I’ll start…
Its not big Steve (he has 3 gyms at home)
gaspo
steve cohen
@4- yeah, but he likes to work out in public
It wasn’t me, but recently started working out and I’m definitely going to do this.
-Larry Robbins
Wouldn’t it be easier to figure out who this is NOT? I’ll start…
Its not big Steve (he has 3 gyms at home)
@11/4- wait, I can’t tell, do you think this could be Steve?
ken lewis
I vote Tim Sykes. I mean, have you seen the guns on that guy.
Well…its not big Steve, he has 3 gyms at home.
Trump
Wow, Erin B just explained that football should require a foot and a ball. Just shut up.
Hi, where is EP?
Well…its not big Steve, he has 3 gyms at home.
Anybpdy know how many gyms does big Steve have?
Hank Greenberg. BP=450lbs
Cliff Asness
Dick Fuld
@12: Aren’t you going to be late for your shift at the Palm? Oh, btw, please hold my usual table… be there by 9. Thanks!
Ben Bernanke. And bench presses $5.5trillion spread evenly between 2 suitcases.
@26- 5.5 trillion in unmarked bills?
Hank Paulson
Tim Sykes
Mike Vranos / Ellington…known for taking his shirt off and flexing to show off the guns on the old kidder trading floor
Former Lehman President Joe Gregory used to travel to work in a helicopter
Erin Callan
BP = 350
Bove has retard strength.
WTF is Total Fitness? I googled it, but it can’t be this one
totalfitnesscenter.com, which is described as a “Christian Gym”. Would could that mean, other than no JO allowed in the steam room. Want that, I guess you have to go to Equinox.
buffett
Jeff Macke he does curles with 30 packs of the Beast
David Carradine. Benching a whopping 150lbs on the bar, across his throat…with a 25 pounder on his wang.
Tanner whatever his name was (is)
@27– the mutha can do it in quarters and pennies. don’t u see why ken lewis was scared(frightened) sh!tless when he was e-mailed(threatened)!
Are you serious- it’s obviously Meredith Whitney.
Hmm- they did say ‘him’ though…
@36– was that while he’s wearing the dark wig and fishnet stockings or not?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06112009/news/worldnews/wigged_out_kink_fu_173672.htm
I used to work out there. This prick used to like to chub up in the shower and then walk out without his towel in front of the ladies. He’d act like it fell off or he forgot to put one and wait for the reactions. He was also famous for not wearing underwear under his flimsy workout shorts, he would spot you on the bench press so you would have to stare at his hairy ball sac. During a group photo for a Christmas card once, he knealt down on one knee in the front and let package hang loose. He acted like it was an accident of course.
@42 you just made my day.
Where is this gym where the men and women change together?
Louis Ziccareli
Aleksey Vaynor, without a doubt.
Cliff A$ne$$. I hear he benched a rack of quants after losing another boat load of cash. The guy is an animal.
Jim Chanos
Barney Frank
Bernie, as evidenced by this: http://dealbreaker.com/2009/05/less-than-49-billion-to-go.php
Shia LaBeouf
Erin Callan?
Seriously?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnW_9uiT1xg
Becky Boot Fan’s comment caused me to spit diet coke on my keyboard. Hilarious!!
ditto 46
@36 FTW
make that @37
-36
Jimmy Cayne – HUGE fan of the smoothie bar.
The answer is obviously Bill Gross’ mustache, duhr
Stan O’neal – also known for displaying “the helicopter” with his penis during pilates classes
I can outbench any pussy finance guy
@61 Women must compliment you all the time about how vascular you are.
the most interesting man in the world
Wayne Brady?
Well? Answer please.
Dickran
spill the beans already
@62 they do, actually. unlike you, I never have a problem getting laid.
@ 68 Yeah, sounds like you don’t have a problem.
Why is dropping weights such bad gym etiquette? It happens- especially when you’re repping to failure
#46, I’ll pedantically correct your spelling, because the Buddhist monks who raised me would have wanted it that way. My name is Aleksey Vayner.
That penultimate “e” is important bexcause I promised the CIA I’d spell it that way when they recruited me to disrupt the Chinese Triads.
Fortunately, I taught tennis to a Triad who was considering defecting anyway so …
“I never have a problem getting laid.” …. I guess a glory hole can change one’s perception of oneself.
25 – funny but mean…
The Douche Bag du Jour, is none other than Sir Allen Stanford…PRICK!!
Sir Stanford
it was me!
–gasparino
Jim Grant?
76 gaspo doesn’t have a helicopter
michelle obama
laura bush
@79 @80
tools.
I think #1 won it before the contest got underway, but then he probably read the VF article.
Ed Liddy
Gotta be Angelo Mozilo
Pushin’ that much weight?
Only a man as strong as Sue Herrera could accomplish this impossible task.