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Political party. Democratic. Spouse. Mindy Basser (m.1995) Children. 4. Jonathan D. Gray (born February 4, 1970) is an American billionaire businessman who is the president and chief operating officer of Blackstone Group, a New York–based asset management firm. [1] He is also the chairman of Hilton Worldwide. [2]
Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with US$ 400,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2023) in seed capital. [3] : 45–56 [4] The founders named their firm "Blackstone" using a cryptogram derived from their names: "Schwarz" is German for "black"; "Peter", "Petros" or "Petra" (Πέτρος and πετρα ...
Hamilton E. James. Hamilton Evans " Tony " James (born February 3, 1951) is an American billionaire investment banker. He is the former president, chief operating officer, and executive vice chairman of Blackstone, a New York–based global asset management firm. [1] James has been chairman of the multinational retail chain Costco from August 2017.
David Scott Blitzer (born September 7, 1969) is an American investor and sports team owner. He is a senior executive at the private equity firm Blackstone and co-managing partner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and NHL's New Jersey Devils. A native of New Jersey, he graduated from Penn's Wharton School and joined Blackstone in 1991.
Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast (6 April 1868 – 13 July 1894) was an Irish-born American newspaper distributor who assassinated Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison Sr., fatally shooting the five-term mayor on October 28, 1893. Following two separate trials, in which the defense tried unsuccessfully to have him acquitted by reason of insanity, [1 ...
Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law. [1] Born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School ...
Jeff Fort. Eugene "Bull" Hairston. The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation (often abbreviated as BPS, BPSN, Black Peace Stones, Black P. Stones, Stones, or Moes) is an American street gang founded in Chicago. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as the Blackstone Rangers. The organization was co-founded by Eugene Hairston and Jeff Fort.
Blackstone was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He is the great grandson of Janet Sobel. [1] He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago [2] and earned a master's degree from the University of Colorado creative writing program in 2003, [3] where he received the Barker Award for Fiction in 2001. [4]