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Guests Who Gave Big to the Democrats
February 27, 1997
The following are names from an official list of overnight guests who stayed at the White House during President Clinton's first term in office and were also listed as individual donors in Federal Election Commission reports for 1995 and 1996. For more information and to see the entire list of overnight guests, return to main story.
Many of the Democratic donors listed below also attended a controversial series of White House coffees. Those names are linked to information from washingtonpost.com's searchable list of guests invited to attend the private meetings with the president, the first lady, Vice President Gore and his wife. The amounts donated are for 1995 and 1996.
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| Name |
Affiliation |
Donated |
Category |
| Dirk Ziff |
Ziff Brothers Investments |
$412,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| William Rollnick |
Investor |
236,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Lewis Wasserman |
MCA Inc. |
226,000 |
Longtime friends |
| David Geffen |
DreamWorks SKG |
201,000 |
Arts and letters |
| Peter May |
DWG Corp. |
201,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Steven Spielberg |
Film producer/director |
201,000 |
Arts and letters |
| Paul Cejas |
Health care executive |
188,400 |
Friends and supporters |
| Angelo Tsakopoulos |
AKT Development Corp. |
176,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Walter Kaye |
Kaye Insurance |
157,900 |
Friends and supporters |
| Steven Rattner |
Lazard Freres & Co. |
134,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Eli Broad |
Kaufman & Broad |
128,500 |
Longtime friends |
| Carl Spielvogel |
United Auto Group |
126,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Lillian Vernon |
Lillian Vernon Corp. |
115,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Roy Furman |
Furman Selz Inc. |
111,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Bernard Rapoport |
American Income Life Insurance |
111,000 |
Longtime friends |
| Steven Grossman |
Massachusetts Envelope Co. |
106,000 |
Longtime friends |
| Stanley Shuman |
Allen & Co. |
106,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Ronald Burkle |
Yucaipa Co. |
101,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Sidney Sheinberg |
Producer |
101,000 |
Arts and letters |
| Steven Jobs |
Next Inc. |
100,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Merv Adelson |
East-West Capital |
87,000 |
Arts and letters |
| Ira Leesfield |
Attorney |
67,500 |
Friends and supporters |
| Fred Hochberg |
Lillian Vernon Corp. |
66,250 |
Friends and supporters |
| Olan Mills |
Olan Mills Inc. |
62,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Barbra Streisand |
Actress/singer |
61,000 |
Arts and letters |
| Lewis Rudin |
Rudin Management Co. |
51,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Felicia Gervais |
Gervais Carew Dick |
44,500 |
Friends and supporters |
| Myra Greenspun |
Greystone Travel |
41,000 |
Longtime friends |
| Alan Leventhal |
Beacon Properties |
41,000 |
Friends and supporters |
| Norma Asnes |
Writer |
37,000 |
Longtime friends |
| Alan Solomont |
ADS Group |
36,300 |
Friends and supporters |
| Neil Simon |
Playwright |
31,500 |
Arts and letters |
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SOURCE: White House and Federal Election Commission data analyzed by William Casey and Ira Chinoy. Research assistance by Ruth Leonard and Nathan Abse.
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© 1997 The Washington Post Company
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