Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (often also: Malcolm Forbes, Sr .; born August 19, 1919 in Englewood , New Jersey , † February 24, 1990 in Far Hills , New Jersey) was an American publisher . From 1957 until his death, he published Forbes Magazine , founded by his father B. C. Forbes .

Working life and career

Malcolm Forbes was the son of BC and Adelaide Mary (née Stevenson) Forbes. After attending Laurenceville School, a preparatory school in Lawrenceville , New Jersey, Forbes studied at Princeton University . He participated in the US Army in the fighting of World War II. Back from the war, he got into his father's publishing business. After unsuccessful attempts at a political career - Forbes served in the New Jersey Senate and ran for New Jersey governor from 1951 to 1957, where he won the Republican top candidate for the New Jersey gubernatorial elections. But in the decision-making elections, Robert Meyner, who ran for the Democrats, achieved a better bottom line.

Subsequently, Malcom Forbes devoted himself entirely to Forbes Magazine from 1957. After the death of his brother Bruce Charles Forbes (1964), he took sole control of the company. The magazine grew steadily under his leadership, and Forbes diversified the company, including getting into real estate trading. After his death in 1990 he was succeeded by his son Steve Forbes .

Forbes had an estimated personal net worth of $ 400 million to $ 1 billion.

Private life

Forbes was extremely wealthy and its opulent lifestyle received a lot of tabloid press coverage. His most famous friends included Elizabeth Taylor , TV presenter Barbara Walters , Fiat shareholder Giovanni Agnelli , politician Robert Maxwell and Henry Kissinger . In later years Forbes became a passionate motorcyclist and used his influence, among other things, to induce legislation in New Jersey to open the Garden State Parkway, which was previously only for motor vehicles, to motorcycling.

Since 1946 Malcom Fobes was married to Roberta Remsen Laidlaw, from whom he divorced in 1985. After his death in 1990, the influential gay magazine OutWeek caused a stir with a cover report on Forbes' alleged homosexuality .

Web links

• Malcolm Forbes, Publisher, Dies at 70 . In: New York Times , January 26, 1990 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Forbes, Malcolm S .." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 26 May 2011.
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