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Mystery hedge funder in hospital breakout
Attention must be paid to Uninvited: Confessions of a Hollywood Party Crasher, a new book by Los Angeles-based journalist Adrian Maher. In it Maher recounts a colourful anecdote about a hedge funder he calls Rolf Gunther who was a “party accomplice”. Gunther, Maher notes, “had an incredible knack for pissing people off, getting in scrapes and scuffles, and ending up in bizarre situations”.