British protest group tracked down Larry Ellison’s 288-foot boat in the south of France.
Activists have “renamed” the $160 million superyacht belonging to Donald Trump’s billionaire media mogul buddy Larry Ellison—branding him the president’s chief “propagandist.” The stunt was carried out by Led By Donkeys, the British guerrilla protest group that made international headlines last September when itOn Tuesday, the group released footage showing activists approaching Ellison’s 288-foot Feadship vessel, the Musashi, moored off the French Riviera, by speedboat.
“We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth-richest man,” Led By Donkeys said. “Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it.” Ellison, 81, co-founder of software giant Oracle, is worth an estimated $201 billion according to Bloomberg, making him the sixth-wealthiest person on earth. The 288-foot Feadship vessel, built at the Dutch shipyard’s facility in Makkum in 2011, takes its name from a 16th-Century Japanese samurai. It measures 288 feet in length, accommodates 18 guests across nine cabins, and requires a crew of 23.The “propagandist” label reflects the Ellison family’s rapid emergence as Trump-aligned media power brokers. Ellison bankrolled his son David’s Paramount Skydance takeover of CBS and its parent company, Paramount. The Trump administration approved the deal despite antitrust concerns, after CBS agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle a defamation claim over aDavid Ellison subsequently installed Bari Weiss, founder of conservative outlet The Free Press, as CBS News editor-in-chief, triggering a wave of departures.Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Trump has been effusive about the arrangement. “They’re friends of mine. They’re big supporters of mine. And they’ll do the right thing,” he said of the Ellisons in October, praising their acquisition of Paramount. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth went further, saying of CNN: “The sooner David Ellison takes over, the better.” Ellison’s bond with Trump predates the media empire-building. In November 2020, days after Biden defeated Trump, Ellison joined a private call with the president’s allies—including Fox News host Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham—that was “focused on strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the vote,” as the Washington Post reported at the time.Not everyone in the media business is cheering the Ellison family’s expansion. Veteran tech journalist Kara Swisher told a Syracuse University media event on Monday that sheAddressing former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane, who departed the network following its MAGA overhaul, Swisher said: “You don’t wanna work for the Ellisons. I’ve spent a lot of time with Larry Ellison, and he’s a terrible person.” She added that the family had “no interest in journalism,” and said she could always move to CNN rival MS NOW. “I refuse to work for an organization that doesn’t respect journalists,” she added.The Epstein-focused Led By Donkeys Windsor Castle action resulted in four of its members being arrested on suspicion of malicious communications—though all four were ultimately released without charge.Before their Epstein-Trump stunt, they trained their projectors on Tesla’s Berlin factory, placing the word “Heil” alongside a still of Elon Musk making a gesture widely compared to a Nazi salute.
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