Marc Lasry

In 2017, his daughter Sophie married Alex Swieca, the son of a cofounder of hedge fund Highbridge Capital. Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane is joined by A-Rod Corp Chairman & CEO Alex Rodriguez, 2024 WNBA Champions New York Liberty and the Brooklyn Nets Owner Clara Wu Tsai, and Avenue Capital Group Cofounder, Chairman & CEO Marc Lasry at the 2025 Forbes Iconoclast Summit in New York City. With three TV jobs (and counting), the pro football Hall of Famer makes his days seem longer than 24 hours—and rewards himself with a multimillion-dollar watch collection. But at 53, he’s already dreaming of retiring. Again. Vulture investor Marc Lasry and sister Sonia Gardner have made billions in distressed debt. Now they've set their sights on sports and are looking in unexpected places. Regardless of the market environment, there are always attractive opportunities to buy into solid businesses with a demonstrated track record of managing successfully through multiple economic and market cycles. Should Marc Lasry's sale of his share of the Milwaukee Bucks to Jimmy & Dee Haslem get approved by the NBA, don't expect things to change much basketball-wise for the Milwaukee Bucks. Jimmy and Dee Haslam, owners of Haslam Sports Group, have agreed to buy the 25% of the Milwaukee Bucs onwed by Marc Lasry. When Marc Lasry, announced he would resign as chairman of Ozy Media because of a crisis at the company, he said, “I believe that going forward Ozy requires experience in areas like crisis management ...where I do not have particular expertise.” The next day, the company announced it will close. The hedge fund billionaire and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner is the latest to cut ties with the Ozy Media as a slew of new reports raise serious questions about the company’s business practices. Milwaukee Bucks owner Marc Lasry says he believes Giannis will play in the NBA Finals at some point, even if he’s listed as doubtful for Game 1 Tuesday night. Not everyone was sanguine about U.S.-China ties at a recent Committee of 100 event, however On the same day Lakers guard Danny Green said the NBA was “leaning” toward restarting the season at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Bucks owner Marc Lasry said the league would “probably” resume in both Orlando and Las Vegas.