{"id":705984,"date":"2026-06-15T19:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:10:24","slug":"ari-emanuel-joins-elite-power-players-for-wild-ufc-freedom-250-event-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705984\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Emanuel joins elite power players for wild ‘UFC Freedom 250’ event at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Ari Emanuel would likely rather us resurface his attendance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals where he sat courtside at Madison Square Garden last week, Page Six Hollywood finds his appearance at UFC Freedom 250 noteworthy!<\/p>\n

After all, Emanuel was seen shaking hands with his former client, President Trump, at the surreal scene, which featured champ Josh Hokit blurting out during a post-fight interview inside the ring at the White House UFC event: \u201cMichelle Obama is a man! Am I right America?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ari Emanuel with his wife, fashion designer Sarah Staudinger, at the UFC Freedom 250 event on Sunday. Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n

Fans react during the UFC Freedom 250 Fan Fest at The Ellipse on June 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. Zuffa LLC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Adding to the insanity, Sean Strickland, another champ who was disinvited to UFC Freedom 250, crashed the Ellipse Fan Fest event on Sunday evening, barefoot with what appeared to be a beer in his hand<\/a> before getting tossed by Secret Service agents, The Post reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to prove that I\u2019m Israeli enough for you guys,\u201d Strickland later posted on social media. (He has been critical of Israel and the war in Iran.)<\/p>\n

Emanuel, who is the CEO of UFC parent company TKO Group Holdings, was with a contingent of family and colleagues.<\/p>\n

Jacquelyn Martin\/POOL AP via AP<\/p>\n

UFC CEO Dana White told TMZ pre-bout: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people hitting me up for tickets, but we did invites. The president has 1,000. I have 200. Ari Emanuel has 200, and the rest are all going to the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on hand at the White House South Lawn spectacle was Paramount Skydance boss David Ellison and Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Ari Emanuel would likely rather us resurface his attendance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,211652,6493,3123],"class_list":["post-705984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-page-six-hollywood","tag-ufc","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705984","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=705984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}