Angela Chao was married to liberal Harvard donor Bruce Wasserstein (2009-2009) - he died only months after they married, of a heart attack…?
Bruce Wasserstein’s Last Surprise
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/05/wasserstein-201005
"The last years of Bruce Wasserstein, the investment-banking mogul who died at age 61 last October after a brief, undisclosed illness, remain shrouded in mystery, which is probably how Wasserstein would have wanted it. “It was almost like part of his grand strategy,” explains Joseph Perella, who founded the investment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co. with him in 1988. “The less people know about you and your feelings, the more powerful your negotiating position will be—in everything. So, that’s the way he was. Nothing about his health, nothing about his diet, nothing about his personal life—we never even knew he was married to someone before Chris [Parrott, his second wife] until I read it in your book The Last Tycoons.” He seems genuinely shocked.
The mysteries start with where his grave is. When Wasserstein was growing up, his family lived in the predominantly Jewish Midwood section of Brooklyn, and Bruce attended the Orthodox Yeshiva of Flatbush, on Avenue J. So Brooklyn would be the logical place for the Wasserstein-family plot, which would contain not only his grave but also those of his sister Wendy, the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, who died in 2006 at age 55 from lymphoma; his half-sister, Sandra, a senior executive at Citibank, who died in 1997 at age 60 from breast cancer; and his parents, Morris and Lola Wasserstein, who died in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
But apparently this is privileged information. And the idea that either Bruce’s or Wendy’s admirers might want to pay their respects by visiting their gravesite is not received kindly. “I find that question offensive,” says Georgette Levis, Bruce’s sole surviving sister and the proprietor of the Wilburton Inn, in Manchester, Vermont, when asked to disclose the location. She would be willing to talk about her brother and his life, but only with the consent of Bruce’s oldest child, Pamela, a 32-year-old lawyer who worked at the Wall Street law firm Wachtell Lipton and Leon Black’s Apollo Management L.P. before becoming a project director at the Tribeca Film Institute. (With his second wife, Christine Parrott, Wasserstein had three children: Pamela, Ben, who works with a producer at HBO, and Scoop, now a law-school student. He went on to have two more sons, Jack and Dash, with his third wife, Claude Becker, a former CBS News producer.) But when Georgette asks Pamela if it would be all right to be interviewed, she nixes it.
Then there is the seemingly straightforward question of precisely how Wasserstein died, three days after being hospitalized suddenly in New York with “heart palpitations” experienced in the backseat of his chauffeur-driven sedan, according to a former colleague. Shortly after an ambulance took him to a local hospital (nobody will say which one), Lazard—the 162-year-old publicly traded investment-banking firm of which Wasserstein was chairman, C.E.O., and the largest individual shareholder—issued the following statement: “His condition is serious, but he is stable and recovering.”
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Indeed, the story that lots of people are telling is that Wasserstein was living an unhealthy lifestyle. (Years earlier, it is said, he suffered from a heart condition and had quadruple-bypass surgery.) His family is extremely eager to squelch such rumors. As this article went to press, an informed source, in conjunction with Howard Rubenstein and Judi Mackey, Lazard’s public-relations head, finally told Vanity Fair, “While in a car on his way to a lunch downtown with his daughter Pamela, Mr. Wasserstein experienced a sudden and unexpected cardiac arrhythmia. The arrhythmia caused him to lose consciousness. The driver called 911. Mr. Wasserstein was rushed in an ambulance to a hospital in Manhattan. His condition was initially stabilized in the hospital. Despite efforts at supportive care and indications of recovery, he ultimately died of heart failure secondary to the arrhythmia.”