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Jun 15 2007 12:00am EDT

Garrard: The Clinton Connection

My colleague Lauren Goldstein Crowe has been ahead of the curve of late in covering the creative leadership at Garrard, the UK jeweler. Apparently Stephen Webster is in, although it's less clear whether Jade Jagger is out:

Ron Burkle, the owner of Garrard and, since Friday, a major investor in Stephen Webster, is loathe to cut all ties with Jade because of her status as offspring of Mick Jagger.

Little did Lauren know, when she was writing this, that the biggest Garrard-related celebrity of them all – yea, bigger even than Mick Jagger – wasn't on the creative side at all. Instead, he turns out to be one of the owners of the company:

Mr. Clinton has assets of $100,001 to $250,000 in one Yucaipa investment, Garrard Worldwide Holdings Inc., a retail jeweler with a flagship store in London.

Yes, that's Bill Clinton. Although somehow I doubt we'll ever see him sporting any Webster-designed man-bling.

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