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Sam Zell, 81, Tycoon Whose Big Newspaper Venture Went Bust, Dies

With a fortune made in real estate, he went into the media business in a landmark leveraged buyout of the Tribune Company in 2007. Bankruptcy ensued.

Robert D. McFadden
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Deaths (Obituaries), Equity Investments, Equity Office Properties Trust, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Newspapers, Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Tribune Publishing Company
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