{"id":604569,"date":"2026-04-24T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604569\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T23:56:08","slug":"hollywood-elite-in-secret-gathering-at-liquor-heiresss-mansion-to-shower-dem-presidential-candidates-with-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/604569\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood elite in secret gathering at liquor heiress’s mansion to shower Dem presidential candidates with cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrat governors, many believed to be vying for the party\u2019s 2028 presidential nomination<\/a>, gathered on Thursday for a pricey Los Angeles fundraising event.<\/p>\n

The private gathering \u2014 where tickets cost as much as $100K a pop \u2014 was attended by top party members like Gov. Gavin Newsom, Arizona\u2019s Gov. Katie Hobbs, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota<\/a>, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer<\/a>, among others, the LA Times reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A ticket to attend the event, closed to the press, cost anywhere from $45,000 up to $100,00, with the money going to the Democrat Governors Association (DGA). The evening was expected to rake in $1.5 million dollars for the DGA, with around 45 donors in attendance.<\/p>\n

Governors vying for the 2028 Democrat presidential nominee gathered on Thursday for a pricey Los Angeles fundraising event. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Also in attendance was chair of the DGA Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. Beshar, Whitmer, and Newsom are all believed to be interested in running for president in the 2028 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the DGA website<\/a>, the group is dedicated to electing Democrat governors and candidates, helping at all levels of the campaign.<\/p>\n

The event was held at the upscale mansion owned by liquor heiress Ellen Bronfman Hauptman and husband Andrew Hauptman.<\/p>\n

The Democratic party members mingled and talked politics with members of the Hollywood elite. Executive producer of the \u201cThe Hangover\u201d movie series, Scott Budnick, was in attendance, along with director J.J. Abrams, \u201cLost\u201d screenwriter Damon Lindelof, and former Walt Disney executive Alan Horn.<\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom was in attendance along with Governor of Arizona Katie Hobbs. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Attendees enjoyed hors d\u2019oeuvres by the pool and sipped cocktails, before heading back indoors where the focus of the discussion was on how best to win back the White House<\/a> in 2028.<\/p>\n

The group agreed that the battle would be won if the conversation was about results from governors in states rather than on ideological issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite playing coy, Newsom recently dropped a political bomb, hinting that he\u2019ll make a run for the White House<\/a> in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t take back the House of Representatives in 2026. Nothing else matters,\u201d Newsom said from the stage<\/a> at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin in March.<\/p>\n

Tickets to attend cost anywhere from $45,000 up to $100,000. Quique Garcia\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

When asked about a \u201csecond date\u201d with his supporters at the ballot box in 2028, Newsom said, \u201cthe work that needs to be done between now and then to get Speaker [Hakeem] Jeffries that gavel. If we can do that? Then you and I can go on a second date,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time the Hauptmans have held fundraising events for the party. In 2022, former President Joe Biden attended an event held at the heiress and her husband\u2019s home where nearly $2.5 million dollars was raised for the DNC, Variety<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The California Post reached out to the Democratic Governors Association for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat governors, many believed to be vying for the party\u2019s 2028 presidential nomination, gathered on Thursday for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2356,236,4515,88,2013,3031,5871,111,76437,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-604569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gavin-newsom","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-presidential-election","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}