Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once said he was unfazed by the death of Princess Diana, saying, “It’s just one life.”
During a 1999 interview with his alma mater Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg, 77, compared his reaction to former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination with the death of Princess Diana.
“It was like Princess Diana, in that everybody thought the world had changed, and the papers were full of it. But a week later, people go back to their own work, their own lives, and there was nothing changed, no matter what anybody says.”
In the clip reported by the Washington Free Beacon, Bloomberg recounts how he had to cancel a fraternity party, while later lamenting how his group “never got the deposit back.”
“I remember in November I had planned a big fraternity dance in the gym, and we had spent all our budget hiring James Brown and the Flames to play, and then Kennedy got shot and we canceled the dance and couldn’t get our deposit back.”
During the interview, Bloomberg also recalled his trip to the Hamptons on the day Princess Diana died in a horrific car crash. He told a devastated fan, “You know, it’s just one life. There’s a lot of people that died today.”
According to Bloomberg, the viewer told him that he didn’t understand that the world would never be the same, to which Bloomberg responded, “Well, never the same again for Princess Diana, but everybody else went on, thank you.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Bloomberg campaign for comment on the interview but did not receive a response for publication.
