John Patrick Grayken was born on June 1956 and is an American-born Irish billionaire financier, the founder and chairman of the private equity firm Lone Star Funds.
10 Facts About John Grayken
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John Patrick Grayken was born in June 1956, and was brought up in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
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John Grayken received a BA degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1982.
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John Grayken first worked at Morgan Stanley, before joining the RMB Realty Group, the real estate investment firm of Texas billionaire Robert Bass.
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John Grayken served as the managing general partner of the Brazos Fund, a vulture fund founded by Bass in 1995.
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John Grayken founded Lone Star, the successor to the Brazos Fund, in 1995.
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In 1999, John Grayken became an Irish citizen, "for tax purposes", renouncing his American citizenship.
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In March 2017, Eilene and John Grayken gave a $25 million gift to the Boston Medical Center to create the BMC Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine.
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John Grayken divorced his first wife soon after he became a "tax refugee"; they reunited within a month of the final divorce decree, but divorced again six months later.
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John Grayken later married actress Eilene Davidson in London, a British theatre producer and former actress.