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 1954 - 2016 (62 years)
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| Name |
Elizabeth Lee "Lee" Hennessee |
| Birth |
1 Sep 1954 |
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Occupation |
Stock Broker, Hedge Fund Manager [2, 3] |
| Residence |
New York City, New York |
| Death |
29 Oct 2016 |
Trump Plaza, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida [3] |
| Person ID |
I1705 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
30 Oct 2016 |
| Father |
William Edward "Billy" Hennessee, Jr., b. 16 Aug 1924, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina d. 2 Feb 1996, (North Carolina) (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Frances Dillon, b. 13 Dec 1928, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina d. 23 Feb 2020, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina (Age 91 years) |
| Marriage |
1 Sep 1949 |
Montreat, North Carolina [1, 4, 5] |
| Family ID |
F644 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- WEDDINGS; Lee Hennessee, Charles Gradante Published: November 01, 1992
Elizabeth Lee Hennessee, the daughter of Mary Frances Dillon and William E. Hennessee, both of Raleigh, N.C., was married yesterday to Charles Joseph Gradante, a son of Sebastian Gradante of Boca Raton, Fla., and Mildred Gradante of New York. The Rev. Timothy Keller performed the ceremony at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York.
Mrs. Hennessee-Gradante, who is known as Lee, is a senior money management consultant and a vice president at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Her father, who is retired, was the senior vice president in charge of advertising and tobacco sales at the Dillon Supply Company in Raleigh.
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- EXCLUSIVE: Pioneering hedge-fund manager is found dead at her $1.6 million Florida home hours after police responded to a domestic dispute with her TV finance guru husband
E. Lee Hennessee was found dead in her $1.6m Florida condo Saturday
Discovered by her husband after police responded to a domestic dispute
Husband Charles Gradante is a Wall Street financial guru and millionaire
Gradante has often appeared on CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg TV
Hennessee was named one of New York’s 50 most powerful women
By Jose Lambiet In West Palm Beach, Florida For Dailymail.com Published: 20:27 EST, 29 October 2016 | Updated: 23:36 EST, 29 October 2016
Hennessee was allegedly left alone for the night.
When Gradante returned about noon Saturday, he reported finding her dead on the floor of the living room.
Her body was taken to the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. Final results won’t be known for several weeks.
West Palm Police Spokeswoman Lori Colombino confirmed a woman was found dead at Trump Plaza but didn’t identify her. She also said the death is not considered suspicious.
Family spokesman Chase Scott confirmed Hennessee passed away and said Gradante was her partner in all senses of the word.
Cops responded to their 24th floor condo.
When cops arrived, they saw no sign of violence but noticed Hennessee appeared to have been drinking heavily.
The source said Hennessee was so drunk that the police officers worried about her health and called a West Palm Beach Fire Rescue ambulance.
A pioneering female hedge-fund manager was found dead in her $1.6 million condo at Trump Plaza in West Palm Beach, Fla., hours after police responded to a loud domestic dispute with her husband, a Wall Street financial guru who has often appeared on CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg TV.
DailyMail.com has learned that E. Lee Hennessee, 64, was found by her husband and business partner, stock markets media pundit and millionaire Charles Gradante, when he returned home Saturday allegedly after spending the night at a local hotel.
The 71-year-old Gradante, according to a law enforcement source, left the condo for the night late Friday after Hennessee called West Palm Beach Police during a domestic spat.
Paramedics checked on Hennessee in the apartment but did not take her to the hospital
'It wasn’t just a marriage,' Scott said. 'They were partners in life and business and in their outreach to help those experiencing strife and prejudice. Lee was a Christian and a true woman of faith.'
Gradante and Hennessee were married in 1992. For each, it was a second marriage.
Soon, they partnered in the business world as well and created the Hennessee Group, which in the late 1990s, ran a hedge fund with $1.6 billion in investors’ money.
Hennessee made her place in a man’s world of high finance at a time when women rarely became hedge fund managers. By 2007, she was named one of New York’s 50 most powerful women by New York magazine.
Hennesse was also involved in charities as well as politics. She was the campaign chair of Republican presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole in 1999.
Hennessee and Gradante were spending an increasing amount of time in the Palm Beach area since they sold the company in 2012.
They first bought in the luxury West Palm condo building once owned by presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2001, according to records.
Hennessee was known in Palm Beach society for running the Easter Seals’ society Kentucky Derby party. [3]
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