Bruce Wasserstein was the Chairman and CEO of Lazard Ltd, an investment bank. His father Morris Wasserstein was a Polish immigrant. He owned a textile company. One of his sisters, Wendy Wasserstein, was a Pulitzer Prize winner. He passed away on October 14, 2009. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=abc0_xRzHq0Q
Life and Career
Bruce Wasserstein was an investment banker. He started his career as a corporate lawyer. Later, he founded the investment bank Wasserstein Perella & Co, which he sold in 2000. He became the chairman and CEO of Lazard Ltd in 2005. He has been married four times. His first wife was Laura, whom he divorced in 1974. He separated from his second wife, Christine Parrott, in 1992 and split up with the third wife Claude in 2008. He married Angela Chao in 2009.
