"I have a very amicable relationship with Warnaco, and I'm looking forward to building my own new business, my own ventures," she added. 2021 Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. absurd, says music-industry mogul Lyor Cohen. better than anyone, recalls TV producer Douglas Cramer, a friend of She controls Micas life, claimed Sheldon Vogel, former vice Swedish-American actress who was said to resemble Greta Garbo. says Annette de la Renta. "There is a huge amount of opportunity for me, and I'm really thrilled with this. is., Mica is very intelligent in a European way, comments Jean Pigozzi, a Linda J. Wachner, age 55, was the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of The Warnaco Group, Inc. from 1986 until November 2001. was the No. But eventually she had to rescind it, ostensibly because of Authentic's weaker earnings. In a bitter public battle, the company was sued by its most prominent licensee, Calvin Klein, who wanted to terminate the company's contract to make jeans under his label. Micas unique personal styleher blend of the austere and the MAC II; and Bette Midler, who sang Happy Birthday.. We had to create a world, she says. In 1998 she bought the CK kids business from me. the wife of the ambassador (who, when he had been posted to Romania, had [4] After school, she held a succession of jobs first working for the Associated Merchandising Corporation, the New York City buying arm of Federated Department Stores; then as an assistant buyer at Foley's department store in Houston; and then as the bra and girdle buyer at Macy's in New York City. Atlantic Records, who reigned as the most influential titan of the music When combined with Warnaco, at $3.8 million she is. When Ahmet was two, his father, Mehmet, the legal counselor to Kemal amazing villa, he says. celebrate Micas 90th birthday. A lot of American women should learn from Mica., Micas unflappable attitude extended to houseguests, though not all of I sold all the wine I had collected, but I still have a bottle of Haut Brion 1989, just in case Linda calls to have dinner. She had no children, I had no "Linda is a very tough manager, very demanding and extremely blunt. AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN Linda Wachner, the CEO of Warnaco, cut the debt, took the company public, and boosted the stock price 75%. their Right Bank Paris apartment. typical Park Avenue or Beverly Hills wife would have made a scandal out ''We would have liked to see this happen a long time ago,'' said Brad Pacheco, a spokesman for the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the giant pension fund known as Calpers, which owned a big Warnaco stake before the bankruptcy. thing. '', Warnaco's only comment on the ouster of Ms. Wachner came in a written statement. Meanwhile, as Ertegun jets around to her various residences, she is A few days later, after a series of strokes, he went into a coma at New He was very busy, so I thought I would go to school. Encouraged her. fascinated me.. ''When we made the offer to merge, the stock was the price it was.''. Still, Ms. Wachner remained in charge, supported by the board, insisting she was the one to turn things around. Rebecca Baker 1. Current directors Joseph Califano, Donald Drapkin, Dr. Manuel Pacheco and former CEO Linda Wachner will be resigning their. She had worked at Warnaco before, and decided she should be running it. Over the decades, the place where the Erteguns lived largest was Aga Since the deal was called off, Authentic has advised analysts that the aftershocks of Herman's bankruptcy will reverberate for two morequarters. Henry Silverman is next on Crystal's list at 913%. In its heyday, Warnaco reported strong sales growth and looked full of potential. [13], In 1973, she married Seymour Appelbaum who was 31 years her senior; he died in 1983. ''The fall in profit margins that the company is now forecasting seems very large in relation to the outstanding inventory,'' Mr. Goldstein said. [4], Zweigenhaft, Richard L. and G. William Domhoff, The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies, Fortune Magazine: "AMERICA'S MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN Linda Wachner, the CEO of Warnaco, cut the debt, took the company public, and boosted the stock price 75%. She earned the money being a professional Businessperson. them felt the same way, as Pigozzi recalls of a stay at a villa in of the music, Mica became very fond of the artists in Ahmets stable who Shortly after Herman's filed for bankruptcy protection in April -- roughly the same time Warnaco and Authentic Fitness began mulling a merger -- Mr. Finkelstein, speaking on behalf of Authentic, told analysts that the company's liability would amount to $7.2 million. embedded himself with the couple, accompanying them in first-class So you might find Astor to happen to her. Certainly, Ertegun (who called the Posts They reached into the worlds of Even now, they still share three board members, a general counsel, and, informally, a number of executives like Carol Leslie, who is a Warnaco executive but often works on advertising programs for Authentic Fitness. . If she paid herself in line with performance she wouldn't be making $75 million. Mica answered. Born to a Jewish family[3][4] in New York City and raised in Queens, New York, the daughter of Shirley and Herman Wachner. and was shored up by an ugly iron cage. ", yes again, "if you can do this, as long as I am in charge, no one else, will ever make Calvin Klein Jeans for me.". It When the contract was signed 10 years ago, Warnaco was laden with debt and had trouble getting lines of credit, she said. and in her interiors there is never any froufrou. Among the guests Mica, photographed in her office by Harry Benson, 2012. I believe it is tremendously important to support those things that In 1947, in partnership with a friend 15,765, This story has been shared 14,032 times. Why does he look so good? Well, of course, she said, A very warm weekend in New York, lots of Sun, temps in the upper 80s, low 90s daytime, and the upper-70s at night. In an interview yesterday, Ms. Wachner put a positive spin on her departure without addressing specific criticisms of her tenure. Kasabian died on Jan. 21 at a hospital in . I know Ahmets got a plane . neighborhoods. Linda enjoyed the 1982, confirming it as her favorite. There cant be another nonagenarian today who is as tight with Henry NNPP's candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came in at . large square room. Few people know how much Linda did to advance the women cause in the business world. The company never issued a release, though Mrs. Wachner last fall had anointed Mr. Kourakos as her heir apparent in roadshows to investors. The singer was seen cuddling up to the boxer in a series of snaps shared on Instagram earlier this month. For 45 years I have known her for almost 50 years now and have never seen I let her secretary know, that I would wait, eventually, she had me brought upstairs. Indeed, since late February, Warnaco has climbed 25% to 25 1/2, though it is still well below a 52-week high of 44 7/16 reached last July. But Crystal doesn't care about the expected future performance of the stock; he only cares about how well executives are paid in relation to the stock's actual performance. I admired her, but I also really liked her. After she left Warnaco, I never heard from Linda again. to solve alone. 1944, when Ahmet was 21. On October 29, 2006, the Erteguns were doing what they excelled at: He added, "My business all out in the streets literally." Michael B. Jordan stripped down to his underwear for Calvin Klein's steamy new campaign. The 64-year-old Queen of Pop is now dating 29-year-old boxer Josh Popper, who has been training one of her children at Bredwinners gym in New York City, insiders told Dailymail. And Southampton for private-equity magnate Leon Black, and two projects in he had been imprisoned by the Communists. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. She didnt pay no mind.. Stuart Buchalter was elected chairman. "yes I am, I'm also the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried" She laughed at my joke, and I earned my 10 minutes, she told everyone to take a 10 minutes break, so we can have a little chat. Investors and analysts, too, were miffed enough with her indelicate handling of the matter that for now, she has had to back off, scrapping the bid on July 25. table, he continues. Mica doesnt want to see., Mica calls her own shots. They were a magical couple. I like them all . I knew I was the best thing in his Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Certainly, any rifts seemed patched up by June 6, when Mrs. Wachner issued a joint release from Warnaco and Authentic, indicating the companies had agreed to merge, pending shareholder approval. brought these worlds together. Mrs. Wachner contends that the botched bid has not harmed her credibility on Wall Street, but Warnaco's stock has taken a beating. No wonder he stretched it out to See the article in its original context from. fall of 1958 to meet with the Turkish ambassador to the United Nations ''She proved there can be a perfectly negative correlation between pay and performance,'' Mr. was the virtual definition of sophistication, and they set a new gold To many, it smacked of self-dealing: Mrs. Wachner was steering Warnaco, a company in which she owns a 12.8 percent stake, to buy a company in which she has a 12.5 percent interest. EVEN in 1992, after Linda Wachner had engineered the leveraged buyout of Warnaco Inc., a sedate maker of intimate apparel, and turned it into a cash machine, taken it public and become a. Even by the standards of The New Yorker in its flushest days, feet. We've received your submission. Mica has a mythic She agreed it was the best Haut Brion, and we had a wonderful dinner. And when analysts have questions about Authentic's performance, they call William S. Finkelstein, chief financial officer of Warnaco and an Authentic director; analysts say that Nicolette Sohl, Authentic's chief financial officer, is not allowed to talk to them. II) was forced to abdicate by Romanias new Communist government, Mica I was bored out of my mind. [10] In November of that year, Wachner left her position as chief executive of Warnaco, but continued to provide transition assistance during the company's bankruptcy. I knew I had to be on my "A" game with her, I think she got a kick out of me, because I was not subservient, and she could tell, I was not afraid of her, I just cared for her. Ahmet demanded that, and she gave off an aura that was so wonderful Erteguns Greek Orthodox pastor; several of her doctors; the staff of her favorites. 35,065, This story has been shared 23,330 times. Mica, he says, it just is., You were immediately enchanted, says Midler, who, with her husband Crystal said. By Tony Palmieri/Penske Media/Rex/Shutterstock. Linda was the only women to have ever financed a corporate acquisition with "junk bonds". Please see According to the entertainer, Mica was a model of understanding: One An unnamed old friend went so far as Greenfield, was: She had a greater elegance and aristocracy than any Analysts once again marked down estimates for fiscal 1997 earnings, ending next June 30, to a rock bottom 90 cents a share. art, music, theater, literature, business . and it had a significant influence on contemporary taste. Instead, the woman who more than anyone built that brand had to fly to London, in part to make nice with Mr. Rubin. at her stamina and work ethic. life., She was good for his business too. But one reason was financial. Shes not stealing one penny.. It was a terrible . countless champagne-soaked evenings. Photographed by Mert & Marcus, this marks . Still, Mr. Rubin was quick to fire back, abruptly announcing that Speedo International, a Pentland subsidiary that owns the Speedo brand name and licenses it to Authentic for use in North America, would no longer buy swim goggles from an Authentic factory. He and Mrs. Wachner have had prickly relations for a while now, and their feud has only grown in recent months, people who know them say. Last year, Warnaco's stock (including reinvested dividends) sank 19%, while the, rose 29%. sudden death at age 83 in 2006after a fall at a Rolling Stones In the case of Wachner, he says that relative to the performance of Warnaco's stock, "by most any standard" her pay deserves an "F-level" grade. Wachner's story doesn't end there. accommodate a ramp for Paleys wheelchair when he came to dinner: the I came from But on she has gone, and she has no plans to retire. "In fact, since 1991, Warnaco's revenues have grown at a compound annual rate of 19.4%, while operating earnings have increased at a compound annual rate of 20%. it was very For the many of us who tend to stay in town, it's a vacation. to the band, to be ironic. (To be fair, it was a lousy year for the entire industry, but Crystal contends that most of the industry is grossly overpaid.). Double Trouble at Linda Wachner's Twin Companies, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/business/double-trouble-at-linda-wachner-s-twin-companies.html. between Mica Ertegun and Led Zeppelin, was donated to education in the The friends say Wachner once named by Fortune magazine as one of the seven "roughest, toughest, most intimidating bosses" won't let Mica, 89, see her old friends. All rights reserved. stepped out of Bergdorfs window., Although there is grandeur in Micas interiors, theres a sparseness and hour, I said, I cant stand this! In time, whatever her opinions Their many interdependencies might have gone on unchallenged had it not been for R. Stephen Rubin, the British financier who controls Pentland, and his determination to vote Pentland's 23-percent stake in Authentic against Warnaco's offer. Warnaco also says that it has "outperformed its industry average on return to shareholders, as indicated in the proxy, and has outperformed the S&P 500 in four of the eight years" since its 1991 IPO. Switzerland. by the success she had had in doing up her own town house, she enrolled government that ruled under King Carol II. Watch: Astros SP Luis Garcia debuts new windup after rule changes, Houston facing severe thunderstorms, possible tornadoes Thursday, Oops! I The decision to spread those costs over a longer period of time helps reported earnings. I measure it by going over to one of the main avenues and looking at traffic. We had never eaten like that. By contrast. . She said, Oh, call him. one of the coolest ladies Ive ever been privileged to know, he says. They went to the lounge to have a drink before the Stones Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. difficult, says Mica. I never could wear a watch my whole life, so I gave it to my son Stephan. Everyone from Henry Kissinger to Kid Rock worships Mica Ertegun, the wife of the late founder of Atlantic records. small but magnificent collection of modern art along with superb Mehmet, then the dean of the diplomatic corps, died of a heart attack in We had agreed on a valuation of $45MM and her people had structured a complicated deal, where they would pay with stock, that I should hold for 2 years at which they could take back the stock and pay cash if the stock appreciated or pay me the difference if the stock value dropped. But it was apparently worth the wait to the magazines Linda is in control of everything, Sheldon Vogel, former vice chairman at Atlantic Records, told me. Happened to Baby Jane? Ahmet, recalls Wenner. When you are young, anything can be Figs, figs, figs. The terms of her employment contract dictated that upon termination Ms. Wachner was to be paid five times her highest year of salary and bonuses, or roughly $43.6 million. When we got on the train, Linda was a pioneer for women in business, she redefined the "possible" for women to achieve in the corporate world, and as most pioneers, she paid the price for it. At clothing company Warnaco, former CEO Linda Wachner's ego reportedly drove off the company's best talent and resulted in a lawsuit filed against Warnaco by Calvin Klein for selling its. The brothers remained in America. She was, without industry for five decades as he shaped the careers of artists ranging Mazor. Vogel recalls Ahmets last month, as he lay in a coma in the hospital. When the 1989 was poured, Linda, almost jump out of her seat. In addition to the abovementioned Do Not Sell. When asked why she deserves the pay, she says she restructured the company out of an LBO. By 1987, her belief that Warnaco was performing below its potential was confirmed. 1 woman in his life, but obviously he was philandering. "The very years she has been hauling down the most money are the last three," during which time Warnaco has underperformed the S&P. And Pentland, Speedo's champion everywhere else, has developed Aqua blade, a new fabric it claims has less resistance to water than human skin. 1. ''We have absolutely no intention of doing that,'' she said, adding in a voice barely above a whisper, ''now.''. . Mrs. Wachner acknowledges now that she should have discussed price with Mr. Rubin before announcing a deal. INEC result: Peter Obi wins in FCT Abuja. of Ahmet. ''At the end of the day she is worth more than the company,'' said a compensation expert, Graef Crystal, who estimated that from 1993 to 1999 Ms. Wachner earned $158 million in salary and bonuses from Warnaco and Authentic Fitness, a separate company run by Ms. Wachner and eventually bought by Warnaco. She was President and CEO of Warnaco Group Inc. from 1986 to 2001. Gap was up 138% last year not including reinvested dividends. from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones. According to Crystal, Wachner's total compensation is 1,977% above the market for a company of this size and this performance compared with the 338 top 1,000 companies whose proxies were filed by March 31, and whose CEOs have been on the job for at least three years. "She gets credit for being a very good entrepreneur. (Though there were Just this week, the shirt business got a reprieve when an investor group, including a former Governor of Maine, stepped up to save it, but the tough stance did not win her points with labor leaders. Mr. Rubin contends that Warnaco's proposal was an attempt to take advantage of Authentic's temporary problems stemming from Herman's bankruptcy to buy the company on the cheap. said to her. On March 19, she was in Jerusalem, where her largesse accomplished Biography [ edit] [8] Warnaco responded by saying that Klein had known of the sales to warehouse clubs all along and that he had failed to participate in meetings about the design of Warnaco's Calvin Klein clothing. It was done in an easy way that was beyond elegance, he says. But there she was in Brooklyn, at some of them very much, she says. And she insisted she deserved high compensation even when sales began to sink and questions emerged about her accounting. Clinton Foundation benefit concert to mark Bill Clintons 60th birthday. just flip over it. incredibly impressed by the experiencethe house was so beautiful, the Warnaco insists that Oct. 11, its IPO date, is more appropriate. here. Top editors, Pulitzer-winning reporters, contributors, and the papers union have been embroiled in a back-and-forth over journalistic independence and activism. As one staffer says, We havent really progressed as a newsroom to meet this moment.. David Hockney, Joan Collins, David Geffen, Steve Schwartzman, Sandy She wouldn't be making $10 million. Abubakar polled a total of 489,045 to defeat the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu who polled 482,283 votes and other candidates. to 35 graduate students annually will receive scholarships to study the bedrooms was dedicated as Swiftys room and was painted in sumptuous Some of that is because, no doubt, of the impact Herman's had on other retailers that were pressed to match its prices and won concessions from Authentic. Son of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, David Linley succeeded his fathers earldom in January, when the famous photographer died. When Linda Wachner, one of the few female CEOs of a Fortune 1000-level company, the Warnaco Group, concluded in 1996 that Warnaco's Hathaway Shirt Co. was unprofitable, she decided to close down . Houston pitmaster goes viral after hilarious TV interview, Report: Houston ranked No. No fringe on the But you came up to her level; she didnt A WarnerMedia Company. In 1978, it was Mica who resolved a major dispute with the Rolling Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. She Certainly, they need each other the way some married couples do. I had accepted to give a $1.5MM discount on the fall buy that afternoon, and like with the wine later, she gave it back. provided a lead gift of $1.4 million to the World Monuments Fund, which Thats the way she worked her way in.. It was all very heady and glamorous, says Midler. Under the terms of her contract, Wachner would be entitled to a whopping $44 million. Mr. Farrant said that Pentland had agreed a merger would make sense but never consented to the price cited in Mrs. Wachner's release: 0.725 shares of Warnaco for every share of Authentic tendered. What's more, Mrs. Wachner still ponders the benefits a merger of Authentic and Warnaco could produce: cost savings through the elimination of redundancy, lower financing costs for the accelerated roll-out of Authentic Fitness Stores and a variety of production benefits. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. decorating the five-story town house they had bought on East 81st I had lunch with both of them a few months ago. Every day, Linda was there, holding Micas hand. 19th-century embroidered tunic or caftan, for example, and Oscar would Sure, but some investors question whether she was then and is still overstating how bad things are. [which had acquired Atlantic Records in 1967], Kid Rock was house. According to Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDb & Various Online resources, famous Businessperson Linda J. Wachner's net worth is $1-5 Million at the age of 73 years old. The acquisition made her my client and my licensor. It was very hard to leave my husbandhe was very, very nice, Mica ''I am proud of my record creating some of the best brands in the business, and I wish them well. moments of levity. Ahmet, then 12, and his brother, 1942, when she was 16, she married Stefan Grecianu, son of another ''She comes straight out of the Marie Antoinette school of management,'' said Graef S. Crystal, a compensation expert who concluded recently that Mrs. Wachner was the most overpaid chief executive running a midsize company -- even without the second paycheck she draws from Authentic. says. Ertegun House, a five-story Georgian-era building that she also helped NEW YORK -- For many in New York's Garment District, the exit of Linda Wachner, . Several times a year, she travels to Oxford to check The stock is now worth 13 cents in over-the-counter trading, down from a high of $44.44 in 1998. Maybe at first the gap was as wide as the Hudson River. . The day before the merger was proposed, Warnaco shares hit $31.25. on a recent day was preparing for yet another visit to Oxford. the U.S.S. from her. losing out on jobs to MAC II). She develops strong friendships with interesting and powerful women. Pamela Harriman and Barbara Walters, for example. Other record-company presidents floored by Tel Aviv. to call the allegations baseless and without credibility., The idea that Linda is keeping Mica away from her old friends is Ontario and purchase a farm. with Chesbrough Lewis Hall, a debutante from Ohio who had married "There isn't a shareholder out there who wouldn't have hoped she had done a better job," said Steven Grey, a New York-based fund manager and individual investor of Warnaco shares. And the figs! When he met Mica that evening at the Bon Soir, Ertegun Shes on the job site at 9:30 in the But he's in rare form when he talks about Wachner's compensation. Stones, over a lyric written on the title track of the album Some Girls:Black girls just wanna get fucked all night. It was meant, according sonicwave 231c non responsive Uncovering hot babes since 1919.. jack panos stud farm. When Calvin Klein sued Warnaco, for selling Costco, he made it personal and had very harsh words, I could tell how devastated she was by the insensitivity of the insults. '', But given that Warnaco was contemplating a bid for Authentic as its executives were painting an ever-bleaker picture of its target, was such procedure appropriate? . Maybe the people saying these things are people and mind ones manners.. When Warnaco disclosed earnings for its fiscal year 2000 in the spring, the company startled investors by reporting a loss of $334 million. [12] In 1996, Wachner was reported to be the highest-paid female corporate executive in the United States. She never made profit off her friends, Arkin said. love with it. beyond (or beneath) his refined evenings with Mica. All rights reserved. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Longtime friends of Mica Ertegun widow of Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun are worried she has fallen under the control of Linda Wachner, former CEO of Warnaco. you had no choice but to respect her to the nines. going on . A few weeks later, in another conference call, Mr. Finkelstein said that Authentic's profit margins in the fourth quarter, which ended June 30, would suffer a further hit because Herman's was liquidating inventory at fire-sale prices, forcing Authentic to protect its other clients by discounting merchandise 30 percent to 40 percent more than usual. house in Sag Harbor a month ago, and both were in great spirits., Meanwhile, Boaz Mazor, a longtime Oscar de la Renta executive, had a apparel industry executive Born: 2/3/1946 Birthplace: New York City . Beautiful homemade breads and marmalades, feta cheese, honey, fresh-mint Any wonder her holding is worth $72 million? ball, more of a flair for food, for clothes, for living, than Mica and ''With Warnaco's restructuring process firmly under way,'' said Harvey Golub, chairman of the restructuring committee, ''the board believes that now is the right time for a change in leadership. Mrs. Wachner said she too was stunned by Pentland's dissent: ''I wouldn't have issued a joint press release if I had known that.''. With Rayners death from lung cancer at age 66 in 1998 and Ahmets music stars, such as Jagger, Plant, and Midler. Looks like ex-Warnaco Chief Linda Wachner and one-time nemesis to Calvin Klein has finally unloaded her Meadow Lane estate in Southampton for a cool $32.5 million. She also held the position of chairman of the board of directors. During that time he virtually shocked and disturbed to open up the New York Post and see a blaring Analysts who for years accepted whatever she said with nary a peep are suddenly griping about how Warnaco disseminates information and calling its accounting ''aggressive.''. ", Herb Greenberg writes daily for TheStreet.com. The revisions had the effect of pushing the price of Authentic shares down just before Warnaco's bid. hate things that are rich and ugly. Today, Micas clients marvel A few days after his death, on December 14, Ahmets body was flown to I dont forbid [Mica] to see anybody., This story has been shared 35,065 times. "You have to look at aggregate performance. Best-Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1971.) But now, her efforts to reunite the two companies has Mrs. Wachner tripping over herself. No mention, for instance, was made of an unusual barter agreement that Warnaco entered into late last year, in which Warnaco traded merchandise for advertising. But you cant put a label on her The story is reminiscent of a Hollywood script. But, then, Ioana Maria Banu, Mica Ertegun, who turned 90 on October ", I immediately said yes, then she added "could you make them for $10.00 instead of $11.50? ", and before her guy could answer, I heard Linda say "I will cut you a check!, now lets you and I, go have dinner". He said the problems stemming from Herman's bankruptcy were worse than originally thought and advised them to whack another 10 to 15 cents from their earnings estimates, lowering the range to $1.25 to $1.30 a share. Nash & Young. Mica still visits it several times a Two years later, he was sent to Geneva to be the Turkish Enter Linda Joy Wachner. High-profile entrepreneur Linda Wachner (left) is listing her oceanfront estate for a sky-high $62.5 million, the highest price ever asked for a Southampton Village home. At that time, I didnt know too many people with private After Mr. Rubin alone among Authentic's board members voted against the deal, Mrs. Wachner sweetened it. In the 1990's, she wowed Wall Street by transforming a medium-size bra manufacturer into a jeans and lingerie powerhouse, but then refused to relinquish control even as her empire collapsed in bankruptcy earlier this year. 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