The 15-year-old son of investor and philanthropist Ronald Perelman and psychiatrist Dr. Anna Chapman has died, Web page Six has realized.
We’re advised that the gifted teenager died Tuesday night on the island of Saint-Martin. His demise is believed to be associated to a long-standing medical situation.
A consultant for Perelman declined to remark.
“He was a pleasant, sensible child,” a supply stated. “Very clever, he was his father’s son.”
The 83-year-old billionaire, proprietor of the MacAndrews & Forbes holding firm, and Chapman married in 2010. They introduced that very same yr that they might welcome Oscar through surrogate.
“We have had some trials and tribulations to get up to now, and we’re each thrilled,” Chapman advised Web page Six on the time.
“A child is one thing they’ve each needed for some time,” a supply advised us on the time. “Pals say they’ve by no means seen Ronald happier or extra content material.”
Perelman made his fortune within the Eighties by way of investments, together with within the hair care model Revlon, and he turned one of many metropolis’s main philanthropists. Establishments named after Ronald O. Perelman embody NYU Langone Well being’s Middle for Emergency Companies and its Division of Dermatology, the Coronary heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian, and the Middle for Reproductive Drugs at Weill Cornell.
Perelman and Chapman welcomed a second little one through surrogate in 2012.
He was married to Religion Golding from 1965 to 1984 and the exes have 4 kids: Steven, Josh, Hope and Debra.
Perelman additionally has a daughter Samantha, whose mom was Claudia Cohen, the late editor-in-chief of Web page Six. The couple have been married from 1985 to 1994. Cohen died in 2007 at age 56.
He and his third ex-wife, Patricia Duff, whom he married in 1995, have a daughter, Caleigh.
Perelman was additionally married to Ellen Barkin from 2000 to 2006.