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This article is super good for background and reference as it covers his entire history…
"In the United States, he has engaged high-profile politicians on both sides of the blue-red divide. While Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, his foundation donated at least $8.6 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the Wall Street Journal. He reportedly paid $150,000 to then-candidate Donald Trump's foundation for a 20-minute call in to the 2016 YES conference. He also reportedly once hired Trump's disgraced ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is now in prison for his Ukrainian escapades. After 2011, he employed Doug Schoen, a longtime advisor to Michael Bloomberg and former pollster for Bill Clinton. (Schoen resigned in November after Bloomberg announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election). Ex-National Security Advisor John Bolton received $115,000 for two appearances at Pinchuk events the seven months before he joined the Trump Administration.
More philanthropy can be expected. In 2013 Pinchuk signed the Giving Pledge, the Bill Gates- and Warren Buffet-backed initiative where the ultra-wealthy promise to give away at least half their assets by the time they die. In his pledge, Pinchuk struck a civic tone, noting that “governments have both fewer means and greater spending needs.”
Pinchuk has also cultivated a reputation as a patron of the arts, opening the Pinchuk Art Center in Kyiv, where he has appearing alongside artworld darlings like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. Though he has long shown interest in the performing arts, his taste for modern art may not be as organic. In 2011, The Art Newspaper reported that after the Gongadze murder, his family “was battered by bad headlines and Pinchuk hired a PR company based in Paris to help. One of their recommendations was to buy art and put it on public display.”
https://eurasianet.org/wooing-the-west-who-is-ukraines-viktor-pinchuk