Since September, almost 10 years ago, as part of the Telmex Foundation event, ‘México Siglo XXI’, fate would strive to make men converge. That day, King’s intervention gave clues as to why he won Carlos’s favor; his character that led him to fight for his ideals despite the obstacles.
The seriousness, in the audience, of Slim was perhaps drawn to the ease of Larry, who had no qualms about telling “how wonderful” he was in his adolescence; He said he once cheated on his high school principal by telling him that a classmate had died when he wasn’t.
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The admiration was mutual and that day the communicator had agreed with his already friend that he would appear on the final broadcast of ‘Larry King Live’ and the promise was fulfilled, with a visit to the interviewer’s house and a dinner from that moment would happen. several and that would result in Ora TV, which is distributed by the giant Hulu.
The camaraderie between them was remarkable, Carlos laughed at Larry’s jokes that this society benefited more from the businessman “because he was poor and needed my help”. Slim opened his heart on several occasions in public lectures that could only achieve a close relationship, they even shared the car several times.
Larry also made it clear how important it was for him to know that his friend has what he described as “one of the best museums in the world”, especially since it was born from the inspiration of Carlos in his wife, Soumaya Domit. (died 1999). King was able to meet him in 2010.