29 Facts About Louis Bacon

Louis Moore Bacon was born on July 25,1956 and is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.

Louis Bacon is the founder and chief executive of Moore Capital Management.

Louis Bacon attended Middlebury College in Vermont where he received his BA in American literature, graduating in 1979.

Louis Bacon met Walter Frank while he was working on a fishing boat on Long Island.

Louis Bacon subsequently received his MBA degree in finance at Columbia Business School in 1981.

Louis Bacon took a job on the floor of the New York Cotton Exchange, working as a "runner".

Louis Bacon later worked as a broker and trader of financial futures at Shearson Lehman Brothers and eventually became the senior vice president for their futures trading division.

In 1989, Louis Bacon used his middle name when he founded Moore Capital Management LLC; in 1990 he founded Moore Global Investments, using $25,000 inherited from his family.

In December 2013, Louis Bacon purchased Taos Ski Valley from the Blake family, who had owned it since 1954.

In May 2011, Louis Bacon obtained a court order in Great Britain, where he owned property, compelling the Wikimedia Foundation, WordPress and the Denver Post to reveal the identity of anonymous persons who allegedly defamed him on their websites.

Louis Bacon sought the order so that he could launch defamation proceedings against online commenters he alleged to have posted libelous material about him on these websites.

Louis Bacon was in a legal dispute with Canadian fashion executive Peter Nygard for several years in regards starting with a dispute over their adjoining properties in The Bahamas.

In 2007, Louis Bacon, installed industrial-grade speakers at the edge of his property and pointed them at Nygard's house.

Louis Bacon claimed it was the work of Nygard, a claim he denied.

In early 2019, it was reported that Nygard had filed a complaint with the US Federal Court in Manhattan alleging that Louis Bacon had violated sections of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

In January 2015, Louis Bacon filed a defamation lawsuit against Nygard over these claims.

In 1986, Louis Bacon married Cynthia Pigott, a former Newsweek magazine staff reporter.

In 2002, Louis Bacon obtained Austrian citizenship, via a special provision for those who have made notable achievements for Austria.

In November 2007, Louis Bacon purchased the Trinchera Ranch in Costilla County, Colorado from the Forbes family.

In 2010, Louis Bacon purchased the Orton Plantation in North Carolina, which was built in 1735 by an ancestor, Roger Moore, son of James Moore.

Louis Bacon served as a fundraiser for American politician Mitt Romney, who was elected governor of Massachusetts and later ran for president.

In 2015, Louis Bacon donated $1 million to a Super PAC supporting the presidential candidacy of Jeb Bush.

In 1991, Louis Bacon was 20th on the list of Financial World's Top 100 Wall Street Earners list.

In 1992, Louis Bacon created The Moore Charitable Foundation to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations that work to preserve and protect wildlife habitat and improve water systems.

Louis Bacon has donated more than one million dollars to the environmental non-profit organization Riverkeeper.

In June 2012, United States Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar and United States Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel M Ashe announced Bacon intends to donate a conservation easement totaling approximately 90,000 acres in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains bordering the San Luis Valley in Colorado.

Louis Bacon owns the Trinchera Blanca Ranch located in the San Luis Valley.

Louis Bacon is the 2013 recipient of the Audubon Medal, given in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of conservation and environmental protection.

In 2016, Louis Bacon received a Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership's Lifetime Conservation Achievement Award for authorizing conservation easements on more than 210,600 acres in the US.