Bohemian Grove list leaked: around 2,200 camp members named, including Buffett and Bloomberg
Independent journalist Daniel Boguslaw published the 2023 bohemian grove camp membership list Wednesday on Substack, and one club member confirmed it is a real membership list from 2023, a disclosure that thrusts many high-profile names into public view.
How the 2023 bohemian grove list surfaced
Boguslaw said he obtained the list in 2024 by pestering a San Francisco club member. “I went to this person’s office for a week straight, ” he said. He had driven to the Bay Area from Massachusetts after getting his hands on a 2017 attendance list, he said, and initially stayed in a Tenderloin single-room-occupancy hotel while he hounded the local member. Weeks later, after finding longer-term lodging in West Oakland, Boguslaw says a courier handed him two manila envelopes one night at Eli’s Mile High Club; inside was the 2023 camp membership list.
Bohemian Grove members named in the leak
The published 2023 camp membership list contains around 2, 200 people. The list names a mix of well-known figures and less familiar wealthy individuals: Paul Pelosi, Jimmy Buffett, Conan O’Brien, Michael, Eric Schmidt, Ken Burns, Jim Belushi and Henry Kissinger are included, and the list specifically singles out Mike and Charles Koch among famously rich attendees. The list also contains many people who are not well known; the context characterizes them as “rich people you’ve never heard of. ”
One member verified the list; club maintains privacy
One club member confirmed that the published document is a real membership list from 2023. A Bohemian Club spokesperson, Sam Singer, said the club is private and does not disclose its list of members or guests. The published camp list does not necessarily represent the full membership of the club, which also meets at a building in San Francisco.
History of journalists trying to get inside the grove
Journalists have been attempting to penetrate the camp since the 1980s by posing as waiters, lost hikers and guests. In 1981, San Francisco-based magazine Mother Jones published an inside story that described the club as the place where “men who make decisions that affect us all gather quietly. ” Alex Jones managed to film a ceremony at the grove that fueled conspiracy theories for decades. In 2008, Vanity Fair reporter Alex Shoumatoff was arrested after posing as a member. In 2018, Outside magazine reporter Chris Colin was threatened by Bohemian Grove security after kayaking up to the high water line of the compound’s beach along the Russian River.
Publishing drama and the journalist’s stance
Boguslaw said his story was supposed to run in The Intercept, but he says the outlet got cold feet and “They spiked it in this really stupid way. ” The Intercept did not respond to a request for comment. Boguslaw said he is not worried about pushback: “I’m confident in my reporting, and I’d like to see them try to fuck with me. ”
The context includes a trailing fragment about the composition of members that ends mid-sentence; that fragment is unclear in the provided context.
At present, the only confirmed next step in the material provided is that the 2023 camp membership list was published Wednesday on Substack; no additional schedule or planned follow-up was stated in the provided context.
