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kestrel9 ago

I know this was posted at some point a few years ago but here it is.

http://archive.is/QsM18#selection-355.38-355.59 I won't quote all of it but there are many names.

Last weekend golfers from all over the world flew in to the Dominican Republic for Alfy Fanjul's 17th annual Sugar Golf Tournament and Bren and Mel Simon's "Safari Gala" in the gardens of their spectacular house, "Casa Luna" in Casa de Campo.

The Simons, in from Indianapolis, and Emilia and Pepe Fanjul flew down from Palm Beach with Pauline Pitt, Jamie Niven, Lillian Fernandez (Alfy's daughter) and Jim Mitchell, and gave a dinner at "Casa Grande," the Fanjul compound at Casa de Campo. Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster gave a fundraising dinner for former President Bill Clinton, at his house in Casa de Campo, which benefited President Clinton's AIDS foundation and the Clinton Library. Emilia and Pepe and Rolando Bunster's dinner started the week-long festivities. President Clinton played golf with Mel Simon and George Hamilton and then flew to Haiti for a fundraising dinner for his AIDS foundation.

There was a tribute to Bren Simon from the city of La Romana at the city hall, where Bren was presented with a citation honoring her work with the children of the Dominican Republic. Bren and Lian Fanjul Azqueta started an orphanage for boys called "Campo Nueva Esperanza.”

Lian Fanjul Azqueta donated the land for the orphanage and the Simons support the orphanage from the Max Simon Foundation, which they created in honor of their late son Max Simon, who died a few years ago. The orphanage houses 75 homeless boys from the ages of two through high school where they are taught by a religious order of Catholic nuns. Just this year Bren and Lian built a library (Parker Ladd has helped Bren and Lian get books for the library) and a vocational school for 500 girls where they are taught homemaking, sewing, the arts, cooking and are educated so they can better serve the Dominican Republic.

Bren is also building a nursing school, a dental school, and a laboratory for the girls which will be finished in the fall of 2003. ...

...The Duke of Marlborough flew over from Palm Beach. He and Duchess (Rosita, who is an accomplished painter), have an apartment in Palm Beach, and are leaving for Blenheim Palace at the end of April. Baron Thierry van Zuylen (his sister was the Baroness Marie-Helen de Rothschild) was with Carol Holmes. ...

Here's an old post... The Fanful family does go way back with the Clintons:

Alfonso Fanjul served as co-chairman of Bill Clinton's Florida campaign in 1992 and is a major contributor and fundraiser for the Democratic Party.