Chapter 399 The Smiths of All America

Joan Irvine Smith, the person she wants revenge on has a great background.

Irvine has given birth to many successful businessmen, one of whom is the richest man in Southern California and one of the richest real estate businessmen in the United States.

His name was Donald Bren, and he seemed to be a brother to Ikana's father's original name.

In fact, apart from the fact that they are both Americans, the two have nothing to do with each other.

Donald Bren is a well-deserved real estate tycoon. Forbes ranks the top ten real estate tycoons in the United States, with a net worth of approximately US$10 billion.

This Bren did not inherit any property from his ancestors and started from scratch.

As of now, he single-handedly controls 100% of one of the largest real estate companies in the United States, Irvine Real Estate Company.

It also has more than 400,000 square feet, 500 office buildings, 50 shopping malls with approximately 8 million square feet, at least 50,000 apartments, three golf clubs and five marinas.

But what most people don’t know is that Irvine Real Estate Company was not originally Donald Bren’s company, but owned by the century-old Irvine family.

In 1977, Bren was 45 years old and already a billionaire.

With the help of some people, he took advantage of the fact that Irvine Real Estate, a century-old company, had no successors and the company was in trouble.

He persuaded several investors to spend US$337 million to buy part of the Irvine Company.

Among them, he alone holds 35% of the equity of Irvine Company. What he values ​​​​is the land resources in the hands of this company.

He then spent nearly two decades slowly buying out his partners' shares in the Irvine Company.

A few years ago, in 1996, the 64-year-old Bren made a strong attack on the Irvine family.

Use the power of the court to exclude Joan Irvine Smith, the great-granddaughter of Irvine Company founder James Irvine.

The California Supreme Court ultimately ruled that Bren should pay Joan $240 million to settle the matter, which was less than half of her original demand for the family property.

Finally, Bren became the sole shareholder of the Irvine Company and took sole control, and a powerful real estate empire was born.

This experience of Donald Brun seems extremely inspiring.

Starting from scratch, he relied on his own ability to seize the property of a wealthy family, replacing the wealthy family and becoming a new wealthy family...

Just looking at these words, he is more than 100 times better than Ikana's father, who was born in the second generation of wealth and has been bankrupt so many times.

But what about actually?

In fact, the timing of Donald Bren's entry into the Irvine Company and his defeat of Joan Irvine Smith in court were all very coincidental.

The time when he took a strong stake in the Irvine Company was when the then governor of California was named Jerry Brown.

Decades later.

When he defeated Joan Irvine Smith in a California court.

The Attorney General of California also happens to be named Jerry Brown.

Mr. Jerry Brown, who served two terms as the governor of California, has been the attorney general of California from 1994 to the present.

If anyone is interested and continues to observe.

You will find that throughout the entire process of Donald Blum's fortune, the shadow of Jerry Brown can be seen everywhere.

Still don’t understand?

One of the famous top real estate tycoons in the United States and the richest man in Southern California, Mr. Donald Bren.

To a certain extent, he is one of the biggest white gloves controlled by the Brown family, which has risen in recent decades.

Behind Donald Blum stood Jerry Brown and a group of Jerry Brown's allies.

Jerry Brown's father is Pat Brown, who was already the governor of California in 1960.

As California governor, Pat Brown contracted the construction project for the 1960 Winter Olympics to a pair of business partners.

One of these two people is William Newsom and the other is John Pelosi.

William Newsom's daughter is Nalia, Beau Dumber's mother, but she has passed away.

Beau Dumber has a very powerful father and will achieve great things in the future.

William Newsom's grandson is Gavin Newsom, who is now the most famous and youngest handsome gentleman in California.

And John Pelosi, his daughter's name is Nancy... she will be nicknamed the Hag in the future.

This is a typical American network.

A network with the Brown family, Newsom family, Pelosi family, etc. as its core, with power spread throughout California.

Similar networks can be said to be everywhere in every state in the United States.

Like the Texas, now Shrub, Smith, Walker, Pierce, and many other families, the relationship is just as intricate.

Donald Blum, who looks so powerful and is a super-rich man in the United States, is actually just an important member of a family network in California.

Maybe not even a core member.

Whether he can continue to stay in that family network depends on whether his descendants can integrate into it.

If possible, there will be a place for a family named Bren in that family network in the future.

If he can't do it, then Donald Bren can only be glorious for a while.

As for Joan Irvine Smith, who came to find Abel.

She had also planned this for a long time.

The Irvine family was also a century-old wealthy family. Otherwise, there would be no way to acquire a large area like Irvine in such a good place in Southern California.

But the wealthy family eventually declined, and its core assets were taken away by outsiders.

The Irvine family worked hard to seize power for more than twenty years, but in the end they didn't have a hair left.

Of the land now worth tens of billions of dollars, the Irvine family can only take away a few hundred million dollars.

Even if only Joan Irvine Smith was left, she would naturally not be willing to give in.

What's more, the California Smith family she married into is not too weak.

Joan Irvine Smith had enough motives to want to regain her family property, or even just to get revenge.

But now Abel's appearance seems to Joanne Irvine Smith to be her only chance to make a comeback or succeed.

In addition, they are both "Smiths". Although they are not even remotely related, one is of Irish descent and the other is of English descent.

But... no matter what, he is still Smith, at least when he comes into contact, there will be some intimacy.

This led to the Smith family here in California. John Smith accompanied his wife Joanne Irvine Smith and appeared in the living room of the villa at No. 60 Golden Eagle Road, Irvine.

"...I'm afraid this will be difficult."

In the living room, Abel smiled and said to Joan Irvine Smith and her husband:

"This was already in 1996. The California Supreme Court's decision is now almost more than 6 years ago. It is very difficult to regain control of the Irvine Company through legal means. What's more...

"

Abel looked at Joan and John, "The Attorney General of California is still our dear Mr. Jerry Brown."

Faced with Abel's "rejection", Joan and her husband John seemed not surprised at all.

The matter itself is difficult.

If it is not difficult, the Smith family here in California is not very weak.

He is a regular professional leaf grower in California, and he runs a related manor in a very wild way.

If things were easy, the California Smith family would have taken back the Irvine company worth tens of billions of dollars.

Even when John Smith married the daughter of a wealthy family, it was most likely for the Irvine Company.

I just didn't expect that behind Donald Bren, there was actually a terrifying political family network that had emerged in California in recent decades.

Facing such an opponent, Smith, who was not weak in California, was also unable to cope.

After all, it is California Smith, not the current Texas Smith...

"Mr Smith."

Joan Irvine Smith is a very talkative woman in her 40s.

Her husband, John Smith, who specializes in growing leaves and runs the largest legal leaf industry chain in California and is the de facto godfather of legal California leaves, seems a little shy.

"The Attorney General of California is elected every four years and can serve up to two terms. Mr. Jerry Brown has already served two terms. Even though he has a high voice, he will step down this year. Not long ago, he also made it clear,

This year he will run for mayor of San Francisco."

"In other words..." Joan looked at Abel seriously: "He will no longer be the master of the California Department of Justice!"

Abel shrugged, "What then?"

"Then our chance came!"

Joan Irvine Smith said excitedly:

"Mr. Smith, the verdict that year was illegal. It's just that the jury, as well as the Attorney General, all sided with Donald Bren!!"
To be continued...