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Eli M. Black - Wikipedia. Elihu Menashe Blachowitz (April 9, 1921 – February 3, 1975) was an American businessman. He controlled the United Brands Company. [2] . His son Leon Black co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management . Early life and education.
Feb 4, 1975 · Eli M. Black, chairman of the billion‐dollar United Brands Company, which has vast interests in bananas and meatpacking and other enterprises, plunged to his death at 8 A. M....
Eli M. Black Born: April 9, 1921 (Poland) Died: February 3, 1975 (New York City, NY) Black closed the door to his own office. He raised the Venetian blind. Then..the man who never raised his voice swung his attache case against a quarter-inch-thick plate glass window with enough force to shatter it.
Feb 14, 1975 · The day after Eli M. Black died, a suicide at the age of 53, a notice appeared in the papers. It announced that a West German chemical concern had bought a major subsidiary from the United Brands...
Apr 18, 2023 · At 8 a.m. on February 3, 1975, Eli Black leapt to his death from the 44th floor of Manhattan’s Pan Am building. The immigrant-turned-CEO of United Brands—formerly United Fruit, now Chiquita—Black seemed an embodiment of the American dream.
E. M. Black (April 9, 1921 – February 3, 1975) was a Jewish-American businessman who controlled the United Brands Company. His son, Leon Black, is a founding member of private equity firm Apollo Management.
I am currently working on a biography of Eli Black, the former Chief Executive Officer of United Brands Corporation who, on February 3, 1975, committed suicide by throwing himself from the 44th floor of the Pan American Building (now, MetLife) in midtown Manhattan.
