Bloomberg – At 17, Eugenie Iseman says she’s too young to attend college, but is old enough to enlist Uma Thurman to help the poor in Liberia. It doesn’t hurt that she has the backing of her father and hedge-fund manager Frederick J. Iseman.
The younger Iseman hosted her first fundraiser last night at Butter, a Manhattan restaurant, raising $375,000 for the Liberian village of Karnplay, which she visited last year with two friends and her mother, Marguerite Nougue-San. Thurman, an Iseman family friend, and her fiance, Arpad Busson, chairman of the London-based hedge fund EIM UK Ltd., paid $25,000 for an auction item to equip an operating room at the African village.