Portrait of Mortimer Zuckerman

Rank #1537

Mortimer Zuckerman

Net worth $2.7B

Real estate, media · United States

Born
Jun 04, 1937
Age
88
Source
Real estate, media
Residence
New York, New York
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Divorced
Children
2
Education
LLM, Harvard University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, McGill University; Master of Business Administration, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Real estate icon Mortimer Zuckerman stepped down as chairman of Boston Properties in 2016 after nearly five decades running the REIT.
  • The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants who settled in Montreal and sold tobacco and candy, Zuckerman founded Boston Properties in 1970.
  • Zuckerman became a U.S. citizen in 1977 and took Boston Properties public two decades later.
  • He still owns roughly 5% of the public company, which operates a diverse portfolio of primarily office space totaling over 50 million square feet.
  • He sold The New York Daily News in 2017 after owning it for 24 years. He is still editor-in-chief, co-publisher and owner of U.S. News & World Report.
  • In 2012, he pledged $200 million to Columbia for a Mind Brain Behavior Institute. He paused disbursement in 2024 to protest its handling of anti-Semitism on campus.

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