Posted on 02/23/2023 7:22:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Billionaire financier and investor Thomas H. Lee was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Manhattan office on Thursday morning, police sources said.
Cops responded to a 911 call at 767 Fifth Avenue — where Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC is located on the sixth floor — at around 11:10 a.m., the sources said.
EMTs pronounced the 78-year-old businessman dead at the scene.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will determine the official cause of death.
“The family is extremely saddened by Tom’s death. While the world knew him as one of the pioneers in the private equity business and a successful businessman, we knew him as a devoted husband, father, grandfather, sibling, friend and philanthropist who always put others’ needs before his own,” Lee family friend and spokesperson Michael Sitrick said in a statement.
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There are many more peaceful ways to go and almost all of them are less messy.
It might have been 3.
I thought New York financiers are supposed to jump.
He must not have read the prospectus.
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If that were the case it would be easy enough to legally acquire any number of prescription drugs to gently shed these mortal coils. No need to splatter your brain matter all over the landscape for your family to see.
Epstein connection?
With his money I would have gone out like Nelson Rockefeller.
That may be why he did it in his office.
And men are more likely to use guns for lots of reasons. It’s a more decisive executive action. And billionaires probably don’t give much thought to cleaning because it’s been done seamlessly and quietly for decades.
He’s also from the generation that prefers facts to feelings and all that squishy touchy feely crap. And they don’t want to go through every one else’s grief and processing to get their “permission”.
It may be selfish, but it’s completely rational.
Pioneers in the private equity business
Not so sure about safe ... but self-inflicted gunshot wounds are generally quite effective.
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