Bankruptcy ensued. By Robert D. McFadden Sam Zell, the real estate tycoon who specialized in distressed assets and acquired The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and other storied but ...

Sam Zell, who made his billions resurrecting troubled businesses that ran the gamut from bicycles to real estate, has died at 81. His death was announced by Chicago-based Equity Residential ...

Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as “the grave dancer” for his ability to revive moribund properties has died due to ...

Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate magnate whose knack for buying up distressed assets turned him into a billionaire and earned him the nickname “grave dancer,” died on Thursday, his company said.

An Upper East Side penthouse co-op that belonged to a billionaire owner of office buildings is now in the hands of a ...

Sam Zell — the legendary, outspoken real-estate tycoon and self-made billionaire who founded a property empire — has died, his company announced on Thursday. Zell was 81. Through his firm ...

approach to credit, Sam Zell sent Steve Roth a “Dear Stevie” email. The “rumor” in question: Roth, overlord of Vornado Realty Trust, was preparing a counteroffer for Zell’s Equity Office ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell, shown during an interview in Chicago in 2007, died Thursday at 81. AP Share Anybody who encountered Sam Zell — be ...

(JTA) — Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate and son of Holocaust survivors who led a tumultuous leveraged buyout that bankrupted the Tribune media company in the early 2000s, died Thursday.

Derek Saul has covered markets for the Forbes news team since 2021. Billionaire Sam Zell, who built one of the largest real estate empires in the U.S. and made his hay by picking up distressed ...

The investing and real estate world was rocked by news today that billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell died at the age of 81. I’ve known Zell for 15 years. While he’s most famous for his ...

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