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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