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Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, 65
Founder, Access International Advisors
Date of Death: Dec. 23
Workers discovered the body of Mr. de La Villehuchet in his firm’s New York office. Mr. de La Villehuchet’s firm oversaw a fund with assets invested by Bernard L. Madoff, according to a person familiar with the situation. An attorney for the firm told detectives that Mr. de La Villehuchet’s firm had lost $1.5 billion in the Madoff scandal.
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Alex Widmer, 52
Chief Executive, Bank Julius Baer
Date of Death: Dec. 3
Overseeing the private bank, Mr. Widmer turned the Zurich firm into a leading bank for wealthy clients. Julius Baer officials said Mr. Widmer’s death wasn’t linked to problems at the bank.
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Date of Death: Sept. 25
In late September, Mr. Stephenson drove to a rail station about 30 miles from his London home and stepped onto the tracks as an express train approached. Mr. Stephenson co-founded the investment firm in 2006. Olivant began accumulating a 2.8% stake in UBS and leading a revolt to turn around the Swiss banking giant. The UBS shares were put in a Lehman Brothers Holdings account with a proviso that allowed Lehman to use the assets as collateral. With Lehman in bankruptcy Olivant may never recover the assets.
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Adolf Merckle, 74
Date of Death: Jan. 5
Adolf Merckle, one of Germany’s wealthiest men, committed suicide after his family business empire began unraveling amid mounting debt, his family said Tuesday. Mr. Merckle’s body was discovered Monday night near train tracks outside the southern German city of Ulm in what local police described Tuesday as a “railway accident.” There are no signs that anyone else was to blame, they added in a statement.
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Chief Executive, Sheldon Good & Co.
Date of Death: Jan. 6
Real-estate executive Steven L. Good was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday in his Jaguar in a forest preserve outside Chicago, said the Kane County Sheriff’s Department. A maintenance worker discovered the body of Steven L. Good, 52, of Highland Park, Monday morning behind the wheel of his Jaguar parked in a lot at the Max McGraw Wildlife Preserve in East Dundee.
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President, Bank Medici
Current Status: In hiding.
With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, Sonja Kohn made few friends gathering billions for Bernard L. Madoff from wealthy investors in Russia and across Europe. Now she has even fewer. Mrs. Kohn has dropped out of sight, leaving the firm she founded, Bank Medici, in the hands of Austrian regulators, who took it over last week. A theory widely repeated by those who know Mrs. Kohn is that she may be afraid of some particularly displeased investors: Russian oligarchs whose money made up a chunk of the $2.1 billion that Bank Medici invested with Mr. Madoff.
“With Russian oligarchs as clients,†said a Viennese banker who knew Mrs. Kohn and her husband socially, “she might have reason to be afraid.â€
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Written by Jean Valjean
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Jan 26 2009