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Billionaire financier, 78, is found dead inside Fifth Avenue office: Investor - who was friends with Clintons - died from self-inflicted gunshot wound - as family say 'our hearts are broken'
Daily Mail ^
Posted on 02/23/2023 4:55:20 PM PST by algore
A billionaire financier and investor was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his office in New York City.
The death of Thomas H. Lee, 78, was confirmed by his family in a statement released on Thursday.
Police discovered Lee's body around 11:10 a.m. at his office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan - where his business Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC is located.
Lee had a net worth of roughly $2 billion at the time of his death, according to Forbes.
Lee was the founder and chairman of Lee Equity and had served as chairman and CEO of Thomas H. Lee Partners, according to the Lee Equity website.
He founded his firm in 1974, and is credited with being one of the early pioneers in private equity and specifically leveraged buyouts.
The businessman may be best known for the sale of Snapple for $1.7 billion in 1994, and then selling it two years later for $1.7 billion, a return of 32 times equity.
Lee has been married twice - first to Barbara Fish Lee, who he divorced in 1995,. His second wife was Ann Tenenbaum of Savannah, Georgia. Lee has five children.
He was a good friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton. In June 2008, following Hillary's unsuccessful presidential run, the couple reportedly stayed at Lee's East Hampton home.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 200806; 5thavenue; arkancide; billclinton; clinton; clintonbodycount; clintoncrimefamily; clintons; died; easthampton; hillaryclinton; lee; leeequity; quakeroats; snapple; suicide; thomashlee; thomashleecapital; thomaslee; triarc
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To: algore
How many times did he shoot himself in the back of the head?
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:18:18 PM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
To: algore
Can anyone think of another family that has this many people associated with them who have committed suicide? The statistical anomalies have to be off the charts!
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:19:18 PM PST
by
CFW
(old and retired)
To: algore
Clintons scared. Somethings up.
To: Freedom4US
God I love these editors. Provides some limited amusement in these troubled times.
To: Libloather
Covid got him.
Thanks!
Didn’t take long, only 6 replies!
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:19:25 PM PST
by
Grampa Dave
("What is your 'fair share' of what someone, else has worked for?" - Thomas Sowell !!?!!)
To: algore
The businessman may be best known for the sale of Snapple for $1.7 billion in 1994, and then selling it two years later for $1.7 billion, a return of 32 times equity.I think there's a math problem here. Maybe when he realized the error he killed himself.
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:20:29 PM PST
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: Freedom4US
I think that ‘billions’ means something different in the UK as it does in the States. Think of it as a form of arbitrage...
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:21:36 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: CFW
What is so funny is that your question was the top topic back in the 1990’s when FR just started.
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:22:55 PM PST
by
TBall
To: algore
Is the suicide reported yesterday of a Clinton associate who was shotgunned and strangled with no weapon found- Suicide?
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:23:29 PM PST
by
arthurus
(covfefe )
To: bankwalker
I believe so. Rush built the brand into a powerhouse. Quaker snappled it up for obvious profit then determined it needed to be marketed in more “normal” ways ergo the flop.
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:26:10 PM PST
by
arthurus
(covfefe l)
To: CFW
Committed suicide or been killed in one car accidents or unexplained plane crashes or getting shot in raid on a religious sect or or or
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:27:35 PM PST
by
arthurus
(covfefe )
To: Macho MAGA Man
Epstein’s list ready to come out?
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:29:33 PM PST
by
Dutch Boy
(The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
To: algore
80’s scam artist. I hope he committed suicide and rode the express elevator to hell. Bye, scumbag.
To: Freedom4US
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:35:52 PM PST
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: beethovenfan
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:38:52 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: algore
Wow ...
This is like the seventh Clinton/Arkansas related death this week.
That we know of.
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:48:33 PM PST
by
silent_jonny
(Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
To: Macho MAGA Man
Okay now another in the same month. The first one, Mark Middleton, actually happened on May 7, 2020. The police report was released to the public the other day.
-PJ
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:55:23 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: Macho MAGA Man
Fixed the date. It should be May 7, 2022.
The first one, Mark Middleton, actually happened on May 7, 2022. The police report was released to the public the other day.
-PJ
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posted on
02/23/2023 5:56:30 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: algore
Let me speculate ... He was on Epstein's List ???
Time will tell
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posted on
02/23/2023 6:06:39 PM PST
by
fedupjohn
(Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business! )
To: Freedom4US
Another article on yahoo said: After his firm bought Snapple for $135 million, investing only $28 million of its own money, Lee sold it to Quaker Oats Co. for $1.7 billion two years later after boosting revenue from $95 million a year to $750 million.
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posted on
02/23/2023 6:09:32 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Gain of Pfunction. Gain of Pfunding. Gain of Pfizer. Now in control of Project Pferitas.)
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