Carl Celian Aikan ( Eng. Carl Celian Icahn [1] ; February 16, 1936, Queens , New York, USA) - American entrepreneur, financier and corporate raider , whose fortune for 2014 is estimated at $ 24.5 billion. e place in the list of Forbes) [2] .
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Date of Birth | February 16, 1936 (83 years) |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn , New York , United States |
Citizenship | USA |
Occupation | , , |
Spouse | Liba Trejbal (1979–99), Gail Aykan (since 1999) |
Children | Brett Aykan, Michel Aykan |
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Site | icahnreport.com |
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Biography
Carl Aikan was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn [3] and grew up in Bayswater, Queens (New York : Bayswater, Queens ), New York [4] . He received a bachelor 's degree in philosophy from Princeton University (1957) and then entered medical school at New York University , from which he left without a diploma. After two years of study I went to the army, served six months in the military-medical center of ground forces.
Aykan came to Wall Street in 1961 as an intern at Dreyfus & Company. After several years of working on Wall Street, he opened his own brokerage company.
Like many others in the 1980s, he began to make his multibillion-dollar fortune with the help of junk bonds of financier Michael Milken [5] . Aikan is considered one of the first to begin to specialize in the greenmail , but he calls himself an investor-activist and a defender of shareholders' interests [6] .
In 2004 he founded the hedge fund Icahn Capital, in 2011 he closed it to outside investors and returned the money to his clients.
Elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, in December 2016, nominated Karl Aikan for the post of special adviser to the president on issues related to the reform of business regulation. This post will not assume formal participation in the government, so Aykan will be able to keep his business [7] .
On January 30, 2016, Aykan donated $ 1 million to US veteran groups in Des Moines, Iowa, and Donald Trump was involved in fundraising. [eight]
Personal life
In 1979, Aikan married Libe Trejel, a ballet dancer from the former Czechoslovakia [9] [10] [11] . They separated in 1993 and divorced in 1999 after several years of legal proceedings, during which Liba sought to invalidate the premarital agreement that she signed, citing coercion and being pregnant at the time [12] . Initially, Liba fought with Aikan’s proposal at about $ 1.5 million a year, since he was already a billionaire at the time, but in the end, the parties came to an agreement, the amount of which was not disclosed [13] [14] . They have two children, one of whom is Brett Aykan [9] .
In 1999, Aikan married his longtime assistant and former broker Gale Golden [11] .
Notes
- ↑ Carl Celian Icahn on Radaris
- ↑ Carl Icahn on Forbes - # 61 Forbes Billionaires, # 24 Forbes 400 (eng.) . Forbes.com. Circulation date August 24, 2011. Archived August 26, 2012.
- ↑ The Icahn Report ™: About Me . Circulation date August 24, 2011. Archived August 26, 2012.
- ↑ Robert Slater. The Titans of Takeover . - Beard Books, November 1999. - p. 77–. - ISBN 978-1-893122-50-5 .
- ↑ MobileReference. 100m for life and smartphones - MobileReference, January 1, 2007. - P. 171–. - ISBN 978-1-60501-123-3 .
- Кар Biography of Karl Aikan on lenta.ru
- ↑ Billionaire Carl Icahn will become Trump's advisor
- ↑ Here Are The People Who Donated $ 6 Million To Donald Trump's Fundraiser For Vets | The daily caller
- ↑ 1 2 The New Yorker March 20, 2006 Issue | The new yorker
- Tit The Titans of Takeover - Robert Slater - Google Books
- ↑ 1 2 Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
- ↑ Law News Network - A Wall Street Icon's Divorce War
- ↑ Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
- ↑ Our Archives (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is June 17, 2017. Archived May 19, 2018.