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He has hobnobbed with celebrities including “The Wolf of Wall Street” star Leonardo DiCaprio and became a collector of movie memorabilia.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2016

He was a friend of Moroccan Chieftain El Glaui, has hobnobbed with Balkan rebels, shipped on freighters, and he has been described as a "sea pirate come to land."

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then he has hobnobbed with sailors, cowboys, circus men, weavers, tailors, butchers, truck drivers, Boy Scouts, steeple jacks, cobblers, electric linemen, "and with elderly ladies who knit."

From Time Magazine Archive

At the same time, he has hobnobbed with leaders of capitalist nations at G-8 meetings and pressured North Korea to surrender its nuclear-weapons program.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has been on intimate terms with czar and serf, he has met millionaire and mendicant, he has hobnobbed with prince and pauper.

From Comrade Kropotkin by Robinson, Victor