Wednesday, February 20, 2013

So Long, Saul Steinberg

I hope you are roasting in hell.

"Saul P. Steinberg, one of the best-known corporate raiders of the 1980s, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 73.

The Brooklyn-born son of a rubber manufacturer, Mr. Steinberg was ambitious from a young age. A portly man with a cherubic grin, Mr. Steinberg epitomized to many the excesses of the deal-making era of the 1980s. With his wife, Gayfryd, he lived a gilded life for several years.

Besides his son, Jonathan, who is married to the CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, Mr. Steinberg leaves his wife; a brother, Robert; two sisters, Roni Sokoloff and Lynda Jurist; six children; and a number of grandchildren.

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