Carl C. Icahn Biography

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NAME: Carl C. Icahn
OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur
BIRTH DATE: February 16, 1936 (Age: 77)
EDUCATION: Princeton University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Queens, New York
Full Name: Carl Celian Icahn
ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius

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Entrepreneur Carl C. Icahn made his fortune on Wall Street as a corporate “raider” in the 1980s. He bought Transworld Airlines in 1985, but had to sell it in 1992.

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Carl C. Icahn was born in Queens, New York, in 1936. He dropped out of medical school to work on Wall Street. In 1968, he established Icahn & Co, his own brokerage firm. A corporate “raider” in the 1980s, he made his fortune by buying stocks and “greenmailing” large corporations. He bought Transworld Airlines in 1985, but sold it back in 1992, despite investing $100 million of his own money.

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Financier, entrepreneur, and airline executive, born in Queens, New York, USA. The son of a lawyer who wanted to be an opera singer, he took a philosophy degree from Princeton (1957), dropped out of medical school after three years, and learned the broker's trade on Wall Street before establishing his own brokerage firm, Icahn & Co (1968). One of the most notorious corporate ??raiders?? of the 1980s, he enriched himself and his partners by his takeovers, and at the same time (so his defenders claimed), making money for ordinary stockholders. He also engaged in what was called ??greenmail??: threatening to take over corporations such as Marshall Field and Phillips Petroleum, he would sell his stocks at the end and walk off with a sizeable profit. In 1985 he bought Transworld Airlines (TWA), and as its chief executive officer, brought it back from near bankruptcy, but in 1992, despite sinking $100 million of his own money into it, he was forced to relinquish control of TWA to its employees.