Graydon Carter
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we had to print more and more copies.
So you've got to pay for that.
And it takes a long time before you get any revenue from an issue.
You got to pay your writers at a time.
You pay your rent on time.
And then you wait 120 days before you get paid from the newsstands.
And you get 90 days before you get paid by the advertisers.
So after about two or three years, we lost money.
We ran it for five years.
And then we sold it to Charles Saatchi and Johnny Pagazzi, who's a very close friend of Charles's, sort of a man about town around France and London.
Oh, no, no, we got invited nowhere.
So we just were around our friends all the time.
And I had children by that time.
I had three kids.
So I tried to get home at 5.30 every night.
How did I get married?
The regular way.
I asked her when she said yes.
Oh, my best friend brought her over for drinks one night, and we just fell in love, and I asked her to marry me ten days later.