Rank #1795
Leslie Alexander
Net worth $2.3B
Sports team · United States
- Born
- Jun 30, 1943
- Age
- 82
- Source
- Sports team
- Residence
- Houston, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, New York University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Western State University College of Law
Net worth over time
Biography
- Leslie Alexander sold the NBA's Houston Rockets to billionaire Tilman Fertitta for $2.2 billion in 2017.
- Alexander paid $85 million for the Rockets in 1993, just before Hakeem Olajuwon led the team to NBA titles the next two seasons.
- Alexander first made Forbes? billionaires list in 2006, thanks to his stake in student loans securitizer First Marblehead, though the Rockets proved to be a better investment.
- He started building his fortune by trading bonds after dropping out of Brooklyn Law School.
- Alexander dropped out of Brooklyn Law School at age 21 after his father died and headed to Wall Street to help provide for his mother.
- Outside of business, Alexander is an animal lover; he has funded a horse sanctuary in Middleburg,Virginia named after his mother, Evelyn.
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