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Another former champagne big wig, Richard Geoffroy, previously of Dom Perignon, also now makes sake.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2023

“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud,” she recalled in a 1990 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022

“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud. Angelo was doing the music for the show, and we became friends.”

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022

Haart’s unlikely transformation from sheitel-wearing housewife to fashion big wig is the subject of “My Unorthodox Life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2021

After his first—and successful—fight with the sea robbers, when he rescued, as rumour had it, the yacht of some big wig from home, somewhere down Carimata way, his great popularity began.

From An Outcast of the Islands by Conrad, Joseph




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