Wintour, Weinstein Host Connecticut Fundraiser To Help Obama

President Barack Obama, seeking to raise at least $2.4 million, turned to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and other entertainment industry leaders for help funding his re-election campaign.

At the second of two events in Connecticut, Weinstein and his wife, Georgina Chapman, held a $35,800-a-head dinner at their Westport home. The dinner for 60 was co-hosted by American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and actresses Anne Hathaway and Joanne Woodward, according to Obama’s campaign. Wintour, a top bundler for Obama, was co-host for another fundraiser in New York in June. The president is trying to narrow a money gap as Republican Mitt Romney and party committees aligned with him have outraised Obama and the Democrats for three consecutive months.