A mogul spent six figures to win lunch for two with Bill and Hillary Clinton at a charity auction benefiting the Clinton Foundation — but when the winner asked to bring his two kids along, he was told he’d have to double his bid to $1 million.
Spies said Charitybuzz CEO Coppy Holzman was talking about the recent Clinton auction hosted by his website at a swanky Hamptons Magazine party for ArtHamptons last Friday.
One witness said Holzman regaled guests with a tale that “lunch for two with Bill and Hillary went for $500,000 to benefit the Clinton Foundation.” And the winning bid came from “a Chinese business mogul who then asked if he could bring his two children along to the meeting.”
But, our spy said, the high bidder was then told by the Clinton camp he could only bring his kids for a cool $1 million.
“The couple opted to leave the children at home,” the source cracked.
The estimated value of the lot to spend “45 minutes to 1 hour” with the Clintons was $250,000, according to Charitybuzz’s site. If the $500,000 winner of the May 29 auction even gets a full hour with the Clintons, that’s $8,333.33 per minute. But at least they will be allowed to take “a photo.”
Holzman was a guest at the Hamptons party, where a line of surfboards designed by artists including Peter Max was being auctioned by Charitybuzz to benefit Southampton Hospital.
Others circulating included Hamptons mag cover girls Ali Wentworth, Katie Lee and Stephanie March, as well as Beth Stern, Chris Wragge, Samantha Yanks and Debra Halpert.
A scathing New York Times piece last summer criticized the Clinton Foundation, saying, “For all of its successes, [it] had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, threatened by conflicts of interest.”
A Clinton Foundation rep said the winning bidder was “actually an American citizen of Chinese heritage” in California. And, “Without our knowledge, the Charitybuzz staff decided to ask him if he would be interested in adding more people to the lunch for an additional donation. We don’t know if they specified an amount.”
A Charitybuzz rep did not comment.