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My car turns off the Pacific Coast Highway onto a winding gravel driveway, and from there through the gates of Vivi Nevo’s Malibu compound. Nevo, at 47, is one of the largest shareholders of Time Warner and wields a good deal of influence over Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood—but his private life, like his home, is zealously guarded.

Nevo’s complex, built by developers in 2004 on eight acres of prime beachfront hillside, is in the Paradise Cove section of Malibu, nestled between the “Colony”—home to Tom Hanks and Brian Grazer—and Point Dume, where surfer dudes like Owen Wilson live. Nevo bought it in May of 2009, at the bottom of the housing market, for a fraction of its original asking price of $48 million. Even though it is still a work in progress, it has been written up in French Vogue and is a talking point in Los Angeles’s elite circles for its iconic modern-furniture collection—curated by Brad Dunning, a designer who wo

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Who’s Vivi Nevo?

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Remember on Gossip Girl, when Blair was obsessed with sabotaging overachieving fellow Constance Billard student Nelly Yuki? And Serena was like, “Why do you keep saying her name?” And Blair was all, “Because it’s Nelly Yuki!” We think that’s the reason the Times today profiled Vivi Nevo, the Romania-born, Israel-bred international businessman of mystery. Sure, Nevo is engagerad to Zhi Zhang and counts Dick Parsons, Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, Ron Perelman, and Madonna among his “best buds.” And, yes, Lenny Kravitz crashed at his place in Malibu this one time, although they never talked business, partly because, Lenny says, he is “interested in Vivi Nevo the person” but mostly because most of Nevo’s friends don’t actually know what he does, other than own a sizable chunk of Time Warner and swan around his homes in Malibu, Brentwood, Tribeca, London, Tel Aviv, and Beijing in “snug, black Christian Dior sui

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Vivi Nevo Revealed: ‘Attention of a Hummingbird on Crack’

Vivi Nevo, that international man of mystery, surfaced yet again at the Sun Valley mogul confab held by Herb Allen.

For a couple of years I’ve been among those trying to figure out who Nevo is, and why he enjoys the intimate ställning eller tillstånd he apparently does among media moguls.

Is he a fraud? A poseur? Or a real serious player?

It’s been hard to tell. He’s supposedly a huge investor in Time Warner and News Corp.  But neither company can confirm this. (Indeed, News Corp confirms he is not a major investor.)

He’s certainly close buddies with everyone from Dick Parsons to Brian Grazer. He flies in private planes. He has a house in New York, and another in Malibu Colony. He's engaged to Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang.

At the bar at the Sun Valley Resort he flitted from one buddy to another, passing from one conversation pod to the next.

But there’s something weird there, as a former employer of Nevo’s suggested to me.

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