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Eli Broad attracted his share of critics. He plowed ahead — donating, demanding, building, and L.A. is the better for it.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reports: Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist, contemporary art...

Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist, contemporary art collector and entrepreneur who co-founded homebuilding pioneer Kaufman and Broad Inc. and launched financial services giant SunAmerica Inc., died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 87.

Billionaire developer Eli Broad dies at 87 Dennis Romero © Provided by NBC News Billionaire developer and arts patron Eli Broad, who helped put Los Angeles on the high-culture map, died Friday, a spokeswoman said. He was 87. He died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long illness, said Suzi Emmerling, spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Broad founded homebuilder KB Home and acquired life insurance and financial services company SunAmerica Inc. Both ...

Eli Broad, a self-made billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist who used his wealth to reshape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, died Friday. He was 87.

Billionaire property and Sun Life insurance mogul turned arts mega-donor Eli Broad dies aged 87 Broad was the only child of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, with his family moving to Detroit when he was seven  Broad passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Friday  His spokesman said he had suffered a long illness prior to his death Broad made his billions money in property and insurance He then lavished hundreds of millions on good causes, including two art museums 

Print Eli Broad made his billions building homes, and then he used that wealth — and the considerable collection of world-class modern art he assembled with his wife — to shape the city around him. Dogged, determined and often unyielding, he helped push and prod majestic institutions such as Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art into existence, and then, that done, he created his own namesake museum in the heart of Los Angeles. With a fortune estimated by Forbes at $6....

The businessman, who made a fortune in home-building and insurance, spent lavishly to try to make the city a cultural capital.

Eli Broad, philanthropist, art collector and builder, has died at 87.

Print It seems unlikely that a home builder whose big claim to fame is carpeting the Southwest with cookie-cutter tract houses would become one of L.A.’s most important architectural patrons. But Los Angeles is the kind of city where the most beautiful road in town is named for a water engineer, so perhaps it shouldn’t be entirely surprising. (See: Mulholland Drive.) Eli Broad, who died Friday at the age of 87, was a relentless shaper of the L.A. landscape — as a developer, insurance magn...