Ron’s Zombie Campaign, Gucci’s Arrested Development, Hollywood’s Biggest Villains

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dose of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Lauren Sherman’s close look at activist investor Bluebell Capital’s ambitions for Kering, and its particular Gucci fixation. Is François-Henri Pinault listening?

Plus, below the fold: Peter Hamby dashes the dream that DeSantis ’24 might resemble McCain ’08. Eriq Gardner spotlights a $16B Wall Street lawsuit for the ages, before scooping Trump’s latest war with Fox News. On The Powers That Be, Abby Livingston joins Peter to detail the inside chatter on Capitol Hill surrounding McConnell’s health. And on The Town, Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw rank the most effective tactics deployed so far by the striking Hollywood guilds.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Activist investor Bluebell Capital is pushing for major moves at Kering, and François-Henri Pinault seems to be listening. Will this financial love tap compel him to make more changes at the group? And is the dream of a Richemont-Kering merger finally closer to reality?

PETER HAMBY

Allies have pointed to McCain’s 2007 campaign comeback as the “perfect example” of why DeSantis shouldn’t be written off. But, as someone who rode the bus with McCain during those bleak days, I can tell you the comparison is perfectly imperfect.

ERIQ GARDNER

Burford Capital bet $15 million that it could take Argentina to the cleaners. The outcome could be worth billions—if Burford can get anyone to pay.

ERIQ GARDNER

The former president is demanding the network turn over footage and communications that he could use to defend himself against a civil lawsuit from police officers who blame him for the Capitol riot.