{"id":15986,"date":"2014-05-30T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=15986"},"modified":"2014-05-30T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T15:51:46","slug":"malcolm-glazer-sports-owner-and-philanthropist-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/malcolm-glazer-sports-owner-and-philanthropist-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Glazer, sports owner and philanthropist, dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Malcolm Glazer, owner of the NFL&#8217;s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the British soccer club Manchester United, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Glazer died Wednesday, three days after his 85th birthday. He had been in failing health after suffering two strokes since April 2006.<\/p>\n<p>One of seven children born to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, Glazer took over the family&#8217;s watch parts business at the age of 15 following the death of his father. He later served as president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corp., a holding company for his varied business interests that included international holdings and public companies.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 he launched the Glazer Family Foundation, which assists charitable and educational causes in the Tampa Bay community.<\/p>\n<p>Glazer had purchased the Buccaneers in 1995 for a then-NFL record of $192 million; the value has more than quadrupled. The team will remain in the family&#8217;s hands. Three of his six sons handle its day-to-day operations.<\/p>\n<p>Glazer finished acquiring ownership of Manchester United, part of the Premier League, in 2005. The team is co-chaired by his sons Joel and Avram. Fans had opposed his takeover of the club, for which he paid just over $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Malcolm%20Glazer%2C%20sports%20owner%20and%20philanthropist%2C%20dies%20at%2085%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[8790,8795,5482,5484,8788,5483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15987,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions\/15987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}