Billionaire Thomas H. Lee found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his office in New York
- last year
Thomas H. Lee, a US billionaire financier who helped pioneer the debt-fuelled corporate acquisition known as a leveraged buyout, was found dead at his Manhattan office. The New York Post reports that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The NYPD told the BBC an unnamed 78-year-old man had been found dead on Thursday morning at 767 Fifth Avenue. According to Forbes, Mr Lee was worth $2bn (£1.6bn) at his time of death.
New details emerged Friday in the shocking suicide of billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee — including how the onetime “envy of Wall Street” was found in his office bathroom with a single gunshot wound to his head and his Smith & Wesson revolver next to him, police sources told The Post. Life-saving efforts at the scene were unsuccessful, and Lee was pronounced dead at 11:26 a.m.. The revolver found at his side was registered and licensed to Lee in New York City.
Thomas H. Lee's family said they were "extremely saddened" by the 78-year-old's death.
New details emerged Friday in the shocking suicide of billionaire financier Thomas H. Lee — including how the onetime “envy of Wall Street” was found in his office bathroom with a single gunshot wound to his head and his Smith & Wesson revolver next to him, police sources told The Post. Life-saving efforts at the scene were unsuccessful, and Lee was pronounced dead at 11:26 a.m.. The revolver found at his side was registered and licensed to Lee in New York City.
Thomas H. Lee's family said they were "extremely saddened" by the 78-year-old's death.