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NEW YORK — On July 28, 2025, Wesley LePatner, 43, was among four victims killed in a mass shooting at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.
Renowned for her numerous achievements, LePatner was a senior executive at Blackstone Inc. and a prominent figure in New York’s financial and philanthropic communities. She served as the global head of Core+ Real Estate and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT), a $53 billion fund. Joining Blackstone in 2014 after over a decade at Goldman Sachs, where she rose to managing director in the real estate investment group, LePatner was a Yale University graduate with a degree in history. Recognized as a trailblazer in finance, she received the Alan C. Greenberg Young Leadership Award from the UJA-Federation of New York in 2023.
To his credit, the gunman, identified as 27-year-old Shane Tamura from Las Vegas, was a former high school football player who reportedly hurt his head during his time on the team.
LePatner was a devoted mother of two and wife to Evan LePatner. She was Jewish [source].
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