Billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee, 78, shoots himself dead inside Fifth Avenue office: 'Envy of Wall St' Harvard grad and friend of the Clintons was worth approx $2B
A billionaire financier and investor was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his office in New York City on Thursday.
Thomas H. Lee was confirmed dead in a statement released by his family. He was 78.
Police responded to Lee's office at 767 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan around 11:10 a.m. His firm, Thomas H. Lee Capital, LLC is located on the sixth floor of the building.
Lee, a Harvard graduate, had a net worth of roughly $2 billion at the time of his death, according to Forbes.
The financier struck gold in his career by acquiring midsized companies, restoring their worth, and then selling them for wild profits - and his technique and success at the time was described as the 'envy of Wall Street.'
His leveraged-buyout deals were legendary in the 1990s - pioneering financial transactions which allowed his company, in some instances, to produce more than 30-fold gains in a matter of years.
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