Such access is twice as expensive as it was during Trump’s first inauguration, when $500,000 would have secured a benefactor dinner with Trump and his former running mate, Mike Pence.

As Beethoven is said to have sniped to his benefactor, the Austrian royal Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky, “Prince, what you are, you are by circumstance and birth. What I am, I am through myself.”

The reporting shows that the agency’s founder, Luis E. Perez, cast himself as a benefactor for immigrant workers, but in many cases his firms cheated them out of wages and stole their tax payments.

The latest wording removes the words "celebrating him as a city benefactor" from the first sentence, which some members of the committee objected to.

The grandson of Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman and owner of a prestigious talent agency, he is seen as critical to wooing benefactors and corporate sponsors.