U.S. billionaire financier Thomas Lee found dead at Manhattan office
U.S. billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee, considered a pioneer of private equity investment and leveraged buyouts, died at the age of 78.
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U.S. billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee, considered a pioneer of private equity investment and leveraged buyouts, died at the age of 78.
Officers found Thomas H. Lee, 78, dead with the Smith & Wesson revolver in the bathroom of his office on Fifth Ave. near E. 59th St. in Midtown at about 11:09 a.m. Thursday, a police source said.
Lee Equity founder Thomas Lee died at the age of 78 by suicide, as per a statement by his family
The billionaire financier was pronounced dead after first responders found him with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York on Thursday.
Over the past 46 years, Lee was responsible for investing more than $15 billion of capital in hundreds of transactions