Several people are providing advice to outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama on what he should do after his term finishes in 2016. One of them is voluptuous but petite actress Eva Longoria.
The former "Desperate Housewives" star, now 45, joins novelist Toni Morrison, writer Malcolm Gladwell, LinkedIn owner Reid Hoffman, hedge fund manager Marc Lasry and of course, First Lady Michelle Obama in the midnight meetings, reports Times of India.
Longoria is not new to helping Obama since she was the co-chair of his re-election campaign in 2012 and a staunch advocate of the president's immigration reform.
Also part of the group is Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla and Marty Nesbitt, a longtime Chicago friend of Obama, according to the New York Times. The daily says Obama's preparation for his post-White House career and life is with "the same fierce discipline and fund-raising ambition that characterized the 2008 campaign that got him to the White House."
The fund-raising is expected to create a body that could raise up to $1 billion in endowment. Aides of the president said that Obama did not ask his guests for contributions after dinner but several of them are potential donors in the future.
The $1 billion would be used for a "digital-first" presidential library and a foundation that would have a global reach. The amount is twice what former President George W. Bush raised for his library and other programs.
The president has raised, so far, $5.4 million that came from 12 donors. The donations ranged from $100,000 to $1 million. The $1 million came from Fred Echayner, founder of Newsweb Corp. Chicago businessman Michael Sacks gave a "weird amount" of $666,666.
In an interview with Tumblr in 2014, Obama said he has not planned what to do for the next decade, but said that right after his replacement in the White House is inaugurated, he would head for the beach and drink out of a coconut.