"Draper Company Launches Zrii; Says It's A Healthful Juice", "Farley Honored with Horatio Alger Award.". Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. Rising from the head table, Farley implored his wife, Shelley, to perform. Riding high with Fruit of the Loom Farley stumbled badly in 1989 when he mounted a hostile bid to buy West Point-Pepperell, a Georgia-based maker of sheets and towels with huge market shares. One of Farleys social peers says his purchase of Hammersmith Farm seemed almost Gatsbyesque. But Farley has a simpler explanation. Candace Jordan has been blogging hard about her desire to be on the Real Housewives of Chicago. For now it will stay a museum devoted to the early years of Jacqueline Bouvier, though Farley does not rule out making it his private residence. By the end of this year, the company hopes to have shifted 95 percent of its production toward cheaper offshore labor; since 1994, Fruit of the Looms U.S. workforce has dropped from more than 29,000 people to fewer than 16,500. Blond, fit, and upbeat, she cut a whirlwind path through Chicagos social scene. He was born to his father Bruce MacArthur and his mother Shelley MacArthur. Farley paid $1.5 billion for the company, eclipsing the mark of $1.4 billion he had paid a year prior for Northwest Industries. The guest list for the reception in The Casinos ballroom, however, read like a roster of Chicagos power elite, including politicos Mayor Daley and Alderman Ed Burke, media stars Iry Kupcinet and Bill Kurtis, and business titans Lester Crown and Ron Gidwitz. Says Farley: ''I'm looking forward to starting a new chapter.'' That will include Shelley. There was massive insider selling, including nearly all Farleys common stock. That marked a rare public singing appearance for Shelley, who had shelved her career as a chanteuse after she married Farley. Until that point, Farley had owned only obscure companies. Although Farley risks making no money if the share price fails to climb above $41 before 2007, precedent suggests that the risk may be less than it appears: In 1996, Farley and other Fruit of the Loom executives came under sharp fire when the board reduced the price at which they could exercise some other options, from $28 to $17.25 per share. The name of his mother was Shelley MacArthur Farley and his father's identity was Bruce McArthur. Some industry observers suggest that Fruit of the Loom needs less Farley, not more. [2] Within two years he was the company's leading salesman, and was appointed head of training for the national sales force. If you've ever wondered what three such women talk about when they get together, tune in to this ground-breaking, weekly one-hour program. In 1988, Farley completed a hostile takeover of West Point Pepperell, Inc., a textile company that had been family-owned in West Point, Georgia, and surrounding communities for more than 100 years. [18][19] He also founded scholarship programs for students at Boston College Law School,[20] and made a $1.5 million donation to endow the William F. Farley Chair at the law school. Hayes played football for the Polar Bears from 1995-1998 and holds . The next to join him at the altar was New Ager Jackie Merrill, a fitness fanatic who would lead Farleys workers in group calisthenics before this marriage, too, ended in a harsh divorce in 1989. Even on vacation Farley holds to a vigorous regime. (Farley had met her while judging the pageant.). Predictably, the national press ate Farley for breakfast. But now weve hired new designers, and we have new product moving through the pipeline, he says. Shelley Farley is 57 years old and was born on 08/29/1964. On the windowsill, the light glances off a glass model of LAquasition, the yacht he recently sold to a friend. In May 2007, Farley launched a brand-new multi-level marketing health and beauty company based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. In Chicago, where socialites judge each other as much on local philanthropic endeavors as on displays of wealth, one prominent attorney and arts patron calls Farley a pizzazz kind of guy, wrapped up in the social whirl, but not really a civic leader. Another VIP concedes that Farley can charm the socks off people especially women by walking into a room. He had acquired the company in 1985 and taken it public in 1987, and share values had increased sevenfold by 1992. The fact that in achieving those goals you came to reevaluate what is important to you, does not mean you made the wrong decision. Jamestown, Kentucky, got lucky; over the years, the Fruit of the Loom plant there has been merely downsized from its 3,000-employee heyday to fewer than 1,000. Live In Chicago (PBS) Vinegar Hill Music Theatre // Contact Us! Last year, Bill Farley was the highest-paid CEO in Chicago even though his company, underwear maker Fruit of the Loom, lost nearly half a billion dollars. Womens Board President Helen Melchior was also in 50th Anniversary gold. 6CQ 7QO 6QO gQO tOOO HOP I2QO WOO HOP 13001 That preferred stock and only that stock would pay dividends, something Fruit of the Loom common stock has never done for investors. Sandra Deromedi Ellen Distelheim Dr. Jill S. Dodds Maia J. Dunkel Christine Du Boulay Ellis Beth Engel Patti S. Eylar Shelley MacArthur Farley Emily . Bills one of the most capable, disciplined men Ive ever met., Though its hard to imagine, say, Sara Lees John Bryan showing off his companys Hanes briefs in quite that manner, Farley unquestionably cuts a finer figure than most executives. K3t KLX lftKN. Yes. Also enjoying Musical Memories of an Era: were other members of Shelleys handsome family: two of her sons, Hayes and Scott MacArthur, her mother, Shirley Michels, and Shelleys husband, Bill Farley. . But, ever intent on growing the empire, he spins the story the other way. Farley fought hard to make payments in the would-be behemoth. Scott MacArthur, one of his brothers, is a professional actor. The suit charges, essentially, that last year Farley and other company executives misled both investors and analysts by painting a falsely rosy picture of the company and its prospects. Charlotte is now age 6 1/2, her younger sister Gwenyth is age 4. Bruce MacArthur, Shelley MacArthur Farley: Father: Not Available: Mother: Not Available: Siblings: Not Available: Spouse: Ali Larter: Children(s) . [13], During his tenure at Fruit of the Loom Farley pushed to move the majority of Fruit of the Loom's manufacturing outside of the US. Subscribe for free today! I am asking you to consider becoming a Hall of Fame supporter with a contribution of $1,000, said Farley. Daniel's 5th outing as Bond gets bums back on seats in the cinema. From online or printed sources and from publicly accessible databases. Farleys visitors that evening were not just the usual political types, though, says one guest who attends many such events. Among his major creditors was Leon Black, who would automatically amass shares if Farley missed payments on his debt. It wasnt going well and I was hearing it from customers. He is the sole owner of Farley Industries, a private equity firm based in Chicago, and a co-owner of the Chicago White Sox. Then things livened up further with the appearance of Shelley MacArthur sparkling in shining blue sequins while radiating fabulous style. At NL Industries, Farley did analysis on potential acquisition targets and rose in director of long range planning and acquisitions. Davis, James (July 3, 2008). Farley would not relent and laid out $3 billion to buy 95 percent of the company. Yes. In early July, another shot came across Fruit of the Looms bow, in the form of a class action lawsuit, filed by a New Englandbased health care employees pension fund, alleging insider trading. The father, Bruce MacArthur, and the mother, Shelley MacArthur, are his parents (mother). From left to right: Shelley MacArthur Farley, Maria Smithburg, Jerri Hoffmann and Sandy Deromedi at the 2017 Gala. He established a holding company, Farley, Inc., which oversaw the various operations he had bought, and took office space in the Sears Tower. After things like this, its hard to take him seriously as a political player, says one GOP insider. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. In 1972, Farley was transferred to Chicago, where he functioned as the regional manager of NL Industries' metals division. And the losses were huge., Lerach also points out that in November of 1996 the company announced it would spend up to $200 million over the following months to buy back shares on the open market such stock repurchases tend to drive up value, because they are taken as signals of confidence in the company. He joined movies and tvshows named Angie Tribeca (Since 2016), Super Troopers 2 (2018), The Game Plan (2007), Life as We Know It (2010) and She's Out of My League (2010). One-time buyout big Bill Farley seen here with his cabaret singer wife Shelley MacArthur is getting undressed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp Aubrey Reuben A corporate raider who ran . Farleys entrepreneurial spirit didnt die, though. 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Marc Spieglers October 1998 profile of William Farley, The Remarkable Mr. Farley, came at a transitional moment for the Fruit of the Loom CEO and Gold Coast resident. [5][18] He has also sat on the board of directors for the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. Hayes MacArthur was born on April 16, 1977 (age 45) in Chicago, Illinois, United States. There were a lot of high rollers, trophy wives, and implants. Whatever the composition of the crowd, though, their checks apparently cleared the event raised $800,000. One of the anniversary soirees began in a tent in Millennium Park and ended in another tent in Millennium Park; in between was a performance in the Pritzker Pavilion of treasured works from Joffreys repertoire, accompanied by a Homeric mix of high winds, torrid heat and intermittent rain. Thats the extremely difficult challenge that faces top Hollywood producer Gordon Gray and his wife, Naperville nativeKristen. 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