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Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, [ 3 ] owner of major French football club Olympique de Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty. [ 3 ]
Frank McCourt was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough, on August 19, 1930, the eldest child of Irish Catholic immigrants Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr. (October 11, 1899 – January 11, 1985), of Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who was aligned with the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, and Angela Sheehan (January 1, 1908 – December 27, 1981) from Limerick.
McCourt is worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes. He sold the Dodgers for $2 billion in 2012 to Guggenheim Baseball Management. In 2016, he bought the French soccer club Marseille .
McCourt’s company, McCourt Global, led MeWe’s Series A in 2022 with a $15 million investment. Only about one million of MeWe’s users currently use McCourt’s privacy-forward version of the app.
During a messy, public divorce, which ultimately settled in 2011, Frank McCourt Jr., then the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, received a huge amount of internet backlash from the team’s fans ...
Frank McCourt: 2004–2012: McCourt purchases Dodgers from Fox & Daly [1] 18: Guggenheim Baseball Management (Mark Walter, Magic Johnson, Stan Kasten, Peter Guber, Bobby Patton and Todd Boehly) 2012–2018: Guggenheim Group purchases Dodgers after bankruptcy court proceedings [2] 19: Guggenheim Baseball Management
The move comes ahead of a Jan. 19 deadline by which ByteDance has to sell the platform or face a ban under a law signed by President Joe Biden on April 24. The consortium, which did not disclose ...
Through Project Liberty, McCourt, the former Dodger's owner and real estate developer, has put together a bid worth over $20 billion to purchase TikTok and usher in what he calls the dawn of an ...