A friend has stated that the family of billionaire Thomas H. Lee, who committed suicide in his Manhattan office earlier this week, is currently in a “somber state”.
Friends, neighbors and flowers have been arriving in a steady stream at the family’s East 57th Street apartment building, where Lee’s widow, Ann, was briefly seen leaving with several friends on Saturday.
Another resident has called for privacy for the family, noting that “they’re suffering”. Lee’s body was discovered on the bathroom floor of his Fifth Avenue office by a female assistant on Thursday with a gunshot wound to the head, sources said.
He was a Harvard graduate and also an avid art collector who was on the boards of the Lincoln Center, NYU Langone and Warner Music, according to Forbes.
By the time he died, Lee’s onetime meteoric career had become a mere footnote in the leveraged-buyout industry he helped create. The city Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Lee’s death a suicide on Friday, listing the cause as a “gunshot wound of head”.
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