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Meet Steve Cohen, the hedge-fund billionaire who is in talks to buy the Mets for $2.6 billion and owns mansions across some of America's swankiest ZIP codes
Meet Steve Cohen, the hedge-fund billionaire who is in talks to buy the Mets for $2.6 billion and owns mansions across some of America's swankiest ZIP codes
Dec 6, 2019, 19:38 IST
Steven A. Cohen, 63, is a New York native.
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Cohen built his $9.22 billion fortune running hedge fund Point72 Asset Management.
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Cohen may not have made his fortune legally. His firm pled guilty to securities and wire fraud in 2013.
The case didn't seem to phase Cohen, who threw a house party in the Hamptons two days after the charges were announced.
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Cohen was also accused of financial wrongdoing during his first divorce.
Cohen remarried in 1992 to Alexandra Garcia.
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The family lives on a 14-acre estate in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Cohen has a vacation estate in East Hampton, New York.
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He has yet another mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
Cohen also owned a triplex in the West Village, which he sold for $30 million in May.
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Cohen collects modern art.
Cohen's expensive taste does not end there. He reportedly spent $100,000 for Food Network star Guy Fieri to spend the day with him.
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A character in Showtime's drama "Billions" is partially based on Cohen.
He's also a long-time supporter of the Mets, but they aren't the first team Cohen has expressed interest in.