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More on Why Everyone Thinks Ron Burkle Is Behind 'Radar'

Yesterday we laid out the case for Ron Burkle's financial involvement in Radar; today an insider gives us some clarifications: Your source is right about Ron Burkle, Yusef Jackson, and Radar. Before Yusef went into the beer business (which is its...


The First Rule of Ron Burkle Is You Do Not Talk About Ron Burkle

So why won't Yusef Jackson say whether or not Ron Burkle is one of his co-investors in Radar? Take it away, Chicago Tribune:


Media Bubble: Maer Reports To Yusef

Surly Maer Roshan only talks to Yusef Jackson. Yusef talks to Ron Burkle. It's called plausible deniability. You know, allegedly. [NYO] Martha Stewart finds a way to write off her upcoming trip to China: It's a fact-finding mission. [NYP]...


The Re-Re-'Radar'-ing: Closer Than You Think, for Longer Than You Thought?

When Women's Wear Daily broke the news Friday that Maer Roshan's Radar was perhaps set to be resurrected once again, the paper cited Maer's new patron as California supermarket magnate and Democratic moneybags Ron Burkle. But there was a potential...


Is Ron Burkle In 'Radar' for $8 Mil?

With the launch of Radar 3.0 right around the corner—like, Tuesday! OMG!—we thought it was time to revisit the murky question of what the real story was behind its rise from the ashes of Mort Zuckerman and Jeffrey Epstein's $5-million...


Why Rich Guys Buy Into Media

Lurking 'neath the sexy Patrick McMullan watermark (someday we'll spring for photo rights, seriously) is a happy scene from the days of Radar magazine's 2.0 period. That's our favorite alleged massage fan Jeffrey Epstein at left, and Radar honcho...


The 'Radar' Re-Relaunch: Will It Happen?

It's been more than a week since WWD's gargantuan Jeff Bercovici broke news of Radar's potentially imminent resurrection, and, sadly, there's been no substantive new news since. (Not that that's stopped us from as much as speculation and innuendo...


The Greatest American Magazine Re-Relaunch: The Kerr Stays in the Picture

Among all the interesting bits about Radar yesterday — that the website is sked for mid-August and the print version for early 2007, that Yusef Jackson is the lead investor and no one will comment whether Burkle's involved, that there's even...


The 'Radar' Re-Relaunch: We're Picking Up Increased Chatter

There's no new news on Radar today — nothing on the likelihood of 3.0, nothing on the funders of 3.0, nothing on who'll be around for 3.0. But that's certainly no reason not to engage in ongoing rampant speculation.


The Greatest American Magazine Re-Relaunch: Maer (Finally) Confirms the Obvious

Kudos to the usually loquacious Maer Roshan, who in this latest Radar go-round has successfully restrained himself from any pronouncements about its rebirth. Until today, that is, which goes down as the first time Roshan has publicly discussed his...


The Political Is Extremely Impersonal At 'Radar'

Last night Radar, which is a magazine, threw a party at Goldbar for its new Politics issue. Outside, someone said that if Goldbar disappeared at that moment from the face of the earth, no one in New York would be offended. But there were free...