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This story first appeared in the Nov. 21 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Ari Emanuel is taking his courtship of Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma global. The WME co-CEO, who one-upped rivals by squiring China’s richest man to a Lakers game during a late-October trip to L.A., paid a visit to Ma’s Shanghai office Nov. 5.
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Emanuel also was in Shanghai for the HSBC Champions golf tournament, managed by new WME division IMG — but sources say he has made it a personal mission to become Ma’s unofficial adviser on all things Hollywood.
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