Sam Zell

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Sam Zell (born Shmuel Zielonka; born September 28, 1941 in Chicago ) is an American businessman and billionaire.

Zell is co-founder and chairman of the US investment company Equity Group Investments . In December 2019 the cell was Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranked 404 of the richest people in the world with a personal fortune of around 5.17 billion US dollars out.

Life

Zell was born in Chicago in 1941 as the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland . Zell's father changed the family name from Zielonka to Zell shortly after the family moved from Seattle to Chicago. Zell received a BA from the University of Michigan in 1963 . In 1966 he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School . After graduating from university, he and Robert Lurie founded Equity Group Investments, LLC , which has three subsidiaries: Equity Residential (major owner of apartments in the United States), Equity Office Properties (major owner of offices in the United States) and Manufactured Home Communities that controls the largest owner of American trailer parks . Furthermore, Zell founded a number of other companies. He controls the company SZ Investments LLC .

Zell is also the chairman of Capital Trust and Anixter International .

On April 2, 2007, Zell bought the newspapers Chicago Tribune , the Los Angeles Times and other media as well as the Chicago Cubs baseball team from the US media company Tribune Company . and gained control of the Tribune Company in August 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Zell ( Eng. ) Bloomberg Billionaires Index . Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ International Herald Tribune: Sam Zell
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search web archives: Forbes: Billionaire Investor Sam Zell at Glance, Associated Press, September 21, 2006@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.forbes.com
  4. ^ The Guardian, America's trailer parks: the residents may be poor but the owners are getting rich , May 3, 2015
  5. ↑ Chicago Tribune: Zell Wins Tribune Auction; Cubs to be Sold, Chicago Tribune ( June 21, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ "Tribune Shareholders Back Zell's Takeover" , New York Times August 21, 2007
  7. ↑ Photo by Sam Zell. Archived from the original ; accessed on May 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zell, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , USA