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Happy Birthday

cityfile · 07/06/09 06:29AM

50 Cent turns 34 today. George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, is turning 63. Nancy Reagan is 88. Sylvester Stallone is turning 63. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 58. Former Mets manager Willie Randolph turns 55. Ex-Barneys CEO Howard Socol is 64. Brazilian model Caroline Trentini is turning 22. Robin Antin, the Pussycat Dolls founder and sister of hairstylist Jonathan Antin, is 48. And the Dalai Lama turns 74 today.

Howard Socol

cityfile · 01/25/08 11:29PM

Socol is the former chairman and CEO of Barneys, the mecca of chic now controlled by sheiks who live near Mecca. He stepped down from the job in May 2008, less than a year after the company was acquired by Istithmar, the investment fund controlled by the government of Dubai.