Jared Kushner Is Part of Paramount’s Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery NYT | Top Stories By: Lauren Hirsch 9 December 2025 at 01:55 Mr. Kushner’s private equity fund is one of the many groups helping Paramount mount a hostile bid to buy the group, whose holdings include CNN. © Scott McIntyre for The New York TimesJared Kushner founded his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, after President Trump’s first term and faced scrutiny over its deep reliance on the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.