Disque Deane

American financier and investor (1921–2010)

Disque D. Deane (July 6, 1921 – November 8, 2010) was a prominent American financier and investor. He was the founder of, and a general partner in Starrett City Associates, which owned Starrett City in Brooklyn (now called Spring Creek Towers).²

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Born Jul 6, 1921, died Nov 8, 2010.¹

About

Deane was at one time a partner at Lazard, the investment bank, where he revolutionized corporate finance by pioneering sale-leaseback transactions.

From Wikipedia’s article on Disque Deane, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Corporate Property InvestorsFounder⁷

Early life and education

Date not recordedDuke University³
Date not recordedStuyvesant High School³

Career

Occupation: businessperson.⁵

Date not recordedFounded Corporate Property Investors⁴

Personal life

CitizenshipUnited States⁶

Deane married his first wife, Anne Shepard Delafield, in 1945. They had a son, Hare Delafield Deane, born in 1949. They divorced in 1950. He married his second wife, Marjorie Angele Schlesinger, Chairman and Publisher of the Tobe Report in 1952. They had four children: Marjorie Gregg Swain, Kathryn Morgan Deane-Krantz, Disque D. Deane, Jr., and Walter Longstreet Deane in addition to several grandchildren. They divorced in 1991. That same year, Deane married his third wife, Carol Woodin Gram. They had two children: Anne and Carl.

A resident of Boston, Deane died at the age of 89 on November 8, 2010, at his home there due to pneumonia. Services were held at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. In 2018, Starrett City Associates sold his property.