What Michael Bloomberg's Daughters Georgina and Emma Are Up to These Days
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg just announced that he is getting into the 2020 presidential race.
"I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and rebuild America," he wrote on Twitter. "I believe my unique set of experiences in business, government, and philanthropy will enable me to win and lead."
Bloomberg entering field will certainly shake up the Democratic primary, but it will also impact his family in a major way.
Back in March of this year, when he asserted that he was not running for president (oh how the times have changed), his daughter Georgina Bloomberg seemed completely at peace with that decision.
The day after Bloomberg announced he wouldn't seek election, Georgina took to Instagram to express her feelings on the matter. The post showcased a photo of a fake Bloomberg campaign sticker, which read "Bloomberg: Because fuck this shit." The catchphrase is "Officially back to being just our family slogan," according to Georgina's caption.
She has yet to publicly comment on his new ambitions to take on President Trump, and in general, Georgina hasn't always embraced her famous last name. In the 2003 documentary Born Rich, she told filmmaker (and fellow heir) Jamie Johnson that "having the last name Bloomberg sucks." But she's since had a profound change of heart, telling T&C in 2017 that, "I’ve come to have a lot more respect for my parents and my last name and everything that my father has done and how hard he worked to provide a great life for us. It’s a last name that now I’m proud of. At 19, I wasn’t."
Here, what we know about Georgina and her elder sister Emma, the two sisters who we could see on the campaign trail, should their father get into the race.
Emma Bloomberg
Like her sister Georgina, Emma is the child of Michael Bloomberg and his ex-wife Susan Brown, who divorced in 1993. The 40-year-old went to Princeton for college before pursuing a joint degree in business and public administration from Harvard.
Her husband, Chris Frissora, traveled the same educational path. The couple wed in 2005 and in 2015 had their first child, Zelda Violet Frissberg (rather than choosing a single last name or hyphenating their surnames, they went for a portmanteau).
Emma is resolutely private and has pursued a career in the non-profit world. She spent six and a half years at the noted Robin Hood Foundation, a leading poverty-fighting organization in New York City, before founding Murmuration. Not unlike her father's company, which offers data and analytics-driven insights to the financial sector, Murmuration hopes to improve kids' educational outcomes with data and predictive machine learning models. In Town & Country's June/July 2017 cover story, Michael Bloomberg explained that his daughter's organization was "trying to help people get the political establishment to focus on school systems."
According to her biography on charter school network KIPP's website, where she sits on the board, she's also on the board of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, the Robin Hood Foundation, the Park Avenue Armory, Ed Post, and Stand for Children.
And when she's off-duty? Emma Bloomberg revealed to Forbes that she lies "to play golf, cook, eat out, and play poker."
Georgina Bloomberg
Bloomberg's younger daughter clearly feels more comfortable in the limelight. The 36-year-old is often spotted on red carpets, and has an accomplished career as a professional equestrian, despite breaking her back twice.
Georgina is a New York University graduate and the author of a series of young adult novels. In the four A Circuit books, Georgina seems to have provided a window into her own life—making herself the main character (talented equestrian Tommi), who navigates a family life that includes an Ivy League-educated sister and a Wall Street billionaire father.
Aside from her fictional alter-ego, Georgina's life seems to be centered around animals, whether in her equestrian career, philanthropic pursuits, or home life. She told Gotham magazine that she has several rescued animals—five dogs, a pig, a goat, two mules, and two miniature horses, to be exact—in addition to the horses she rides to compete.
She's been involved with the Humane Society of the United States, the ASPCA, and Animal Aid USA. As she told Town & Country in 2016, "Dan Abrams [Chief Legal Affairs Anchor for ABC News] said something that had a profound effect on me... I asked him if he was an animal lover and he said, 'Well, I can't really say that I'm an animal lover because I don't do anything positive for them.' I've always loved animals and it made me realize that I have to transfer that passion to doing something to help them."
The single mother had her son, Jasper Bloomberg, in 2013. As a member of the American aristocracy, he's already racking up accomplishments: there's an outdoor gallery space at the new Whitney Museum of American Art named after the five-year-old tike.
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