Bruce Wasserstein

By Kim Velsey 5/14 12:50pm

Widow of Bruce Wasserstein Ships Off East Village Co-op For $1.6 M.

If there’s one thing that shipping magnate Angela Chao knows, it’s how to move goods. Ms. Chao just sold her Greenwich Village co-op for the $1.6 million ask, according to city records.

Ms. Chao, an executive at her father’s Foremost Group and the fourth wife and widow of the late billionaire and Lazard chief Bruce Wasserstein, must have grown tired of her two-bedroom co-op apartment at 35 East 9th Street, which sold to Nancy Bello and Michael Boghosian. They sure liked the place, though, as it enter contract after a little more than a month on the market. Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/17/11 11:43am

Zeck-less

The view from up there, it's not what you'd think. (Patrick McMullan)

Wasn’tserstein: William Lie Zeckendorf Selling His Home of Six Months

It was a bare-knuckled fight to get the home, as only there could be in New York, and now the buyer doesn’t want it, as could only happen here. Read More

By Mike Taylor 10/27/10 12:59pm

Wall Street

Morning Roundup: More Monetization, More Problems

Experts, including some Federal Reserve officials, doubt that another round of money-printing asset purchases will do much to help our flaccid economy. The central bank is revving up the monetary inflation machine anyway, so expect a few hundred billion dollars in monetary stimulus to start coming your way next week. [WSJ]
Lazard, the Read More

By John Koblin 8/09/10 3:39pm

Dynasties

Wassersteins Declare Long Term Interest in New York

Ten months after Bruce Wasserstein’s sudden death, New York Magazine remains firmly in the hands of the Wasserstein family, and it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.

David Carr reports today that Mr. Waserstein’s children are dedicated to the magazine. “The family members meet with the management team monthly and weigh in on broader budgetary Read More

By Max Abelson 4/10/10 12:21am

Wall Street Read of the Week: “Bruce Wasserstein’s Last Surprise”

There is an old rule about not speaking ill of the dead, and Vanity Fair‘s very entertaining piece “Bruce Wasserstein’s Last Surprise” comes close to breaking it. William D. Cohan’s profile describes the late Lazard dealmaker as a man who saw himself as a Nietzschean Übermensch. “He believes he is that,” Mr. Cohan Read More

By Molly Fischer 10/23/09 3:38pm

No New Owner for New York

Owner Bruce Wasserstein may have died last week, but New York magazine won’t be sold. Ad Age reports that an internal memo circulated yesterday informed employees there would be “no change” in ownership and that a Wasserstein family trust would continue to control New York Media.

The magazine’s Read More

By Molly Fischer 10/15/09 10:42pm

Bruce Wasserstein Remembered

Bruce Wasserstein’s death at 61 came as a surprise: it created ripples even in the media world, leaving the fate of New York magazine as well as the Kraft-Cadbury deal in th lurch.

After graduating from Harvard Law, Wasserstein went into finance, rising to prominence in the 1980s. The Wall Street Read More

By John Koblin 10/14/09 10:17pm

After Wasserstein’s Death, What Will Happen to New York?

In light of the sudden death of Bruce Wasserstein, what is going to happen to New York Magazine?

The magazine is owned by a family trust, not by Lazard or any of Mr. Wasserstein’s other holding companies. Mr. Wasserstein’s children, according to reports, include Ben, Pam, Scoop, Jack and Dash.

Could one of them potentially Read More

By Molly Fischer 10/14/09 8:41pm

Lazard CEO and New York Owner Bruce Wasserstein Dies

Bruce Wasserstein–hostile-takeover artist, chief of Lazard, owner of New York magazine, Harvard benefactor, brother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein–has died at 61. He was hospitalized last weekend for heart trouble.

Here’s some reaction from former associates.

Carl Icahn: “It’s sad, it’s a sad thing. He was a good friend and he Read More

By Irina Aleksander 2/11/09 4:49pm

Socialites Come Out of Hibernation for Patrick McMullan at Elaine’s

It’s been a long, cold, economically devastating winter, but at Elaine’s on Tuesday night for Patrick McMullan‘s party celebrating his 20 years with Interview magazine, the crowd was partying as though the events of the past few months were a bad hallucination. Or maybe everyone was hibernating in St. Barths, Tulum, Vermont, upstate New York, Read More

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Widow of Bruce Wasserstein Ships Off East Village Co-op For $1.6 M.

Wasn’tserstein: William Lie Zeckendorf Selling His Home of Six Months

Morning Roundup: More Monetization, More Problems

Wassersteins Declare Long Term Interest in New York

Wall Street Read of the Week: “Bruce Wasserstein’s Last Surprise”

No New Owner for New York

Bruce Wasserstein Remembered

After Wasserstein’s Death, What Will Happen to New York?

Lazard CEO and New York Owner Bruce Wasserstein Dies

Socialites Come Out of Hibernation for Patrick McMullan at Elaine’s

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