Aby Rosen co-founded RFR Holding, which owns a portfolio of 93 properties valued over $15.5 billion in cities including New York, Miami, Las Vegas, and Tel Aviv.
14 Facts About Aby Rosen
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Aby Rosen is a noted collector of modern and contemporary art, owning more than 800 postwar pieces, including 100-plus works by Andy Warhol.
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Aby Rosen's collection includes pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince and Jeff Koons.
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Aby Rosen was born in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1960, the son of Jewish Holocaust survivors.
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Aby Rosen attended local schools before going to Wolfgang Goethe University, where he graduated with a business degree.
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Aby Rosen's parents moved to Israel by the 1990s, living in Tel Aviv.
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Aby Rosen apprenticed at a real estate brokerage firm selling properties to German investors.
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In 2006, Aby Rosen partnered with Ian Schrager, a longtime friend and co-founder of Studio 54, to transform the 123-year-old Gramercy Park Hotel with minimalist architect John Pawson.
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In 2006, Aby Rosen announced plans to develop the site at 610 Lexington Avenue in NYC into a glass hotel and condominium tower to be designed by Sir Norman Foster.
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In 2005, Aby Rosen married Dr Samantha Boardman, a psychiatrist and socialite.
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In 2011, Rosen bought the A Conger Goodyear House in Old Westbury, New York on Long Island for $3.4 million.
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Aby Rosen keeps many of his important pieces of art there, including The Virgin Mother, a 13-ton, 33-foot-high bronze sculpture by Damien Hirst of a pregnant woman with peeled skin and an exposed fetus.
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Aby Rosen is reported to own a $36 million vacation home in Saint Barthelemy.
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Aby Rosen is known for his annual dinner party at the W South Beach during Art Basel.