The TV presenter who brought down NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell also had an affair with a married Texas buyout tycoon who gave her an expensive, jet-set lifestyle, The Post has learned.
Hadley Gamble – a CNBC correspondent who turned out to be a girl who had an “inappropriate relationship” with Shell for greater than a decade up to 2019 – was also involved in the same period with David Bonderman, the billionaire chairman of private equity firm TPG, according to a whistleblower grievance reviewed by The Post.
Bonderman – the 80-year-old co-owner of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken, who has an estimated net value of $6.6 billion according to Forbes – was known for his extravagant lifestyle, hiring bands like the Rolling Stones to play at his lavish parties.
According to an explosive whistleblower grievance filed by a former TPG executive in 2015, Bonderman counted Gamble amongst his “companions” and treated her to the company’s private jet.
“TPG founder David Bonderman is understood inside the company for having regular female companions whom he lavishly gifts or otherwise provides advantages,” alleges former TPG executive Adam Levine in his grievance filed with the SEC on March 2, 2015 .
“Mr. Bonderman is claimed to pay most, if not all, of these women’s living expenses and sometimes takes them with him on business trips,” the grievance reads.
“SM. Gamble in particular is understood to usually fly TPG planes with him.”
According to insiders, the allegations match Gamble’s on-air personality – some note that Gamble made headlines around the world two years ago after interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin during a wearing a good black dress at an economic conference in Moscow.
Putin was caught on camera flirting with Gamble before they went on stage – where he then implied she was “too beautiful” to understand some of his responses, Hill reported.
“She will likely be interviewing someone with Louboutin [high-heeled shoe] dangling from her toe,” a source told The Post.
Levine, TPG’s former managing director of global public affairs, accused the company of violating securities laws in charging investors with costs that ought to have been borne by TPG Capital in a filing with the SEC.
According to the SEC, the 41-year-old Gamble was not the subject of a grievance that TPG settled in 2017 without pleading guilty to $13 million.
The corporate manages $135 billion in assets and owns a spread of firms, from J. Crew to Creative Artists Agency, the powerful Hollywood talent firm that when represented Gamble.
TPG declined to comment.
Gamble’s attorney, Suzanne McKie, downplayed her client’s alleged ties to Bonderman when contacted by The Post.
McKie also rejected the suggestion that “who a girl has or has not dated in the past matters to her claims of sexual harassment and discrimination.”
Russian state media accused Gamble of acting “as a sex object” during an October 2021 interview intended to distract Putin – suggesting that the veteran journalist was part of a US “special operation”.
The name Gamble resurfaced Sunday after NBCU’s parent company Comcast fired Shell after a proper anchor grievance against the longtime executive.
Shell admitted to an alleged affair that began 11 years ago and continued intermittently for years, according to an internal investigation by Comcast.
“Given these circumstances, it is extremely disappointing that my client’s name has been released and her privacy compromised,” McKie, managing partner of UK-based Farore Law, told the Wall Street Journal.