Andrea Brett Morrison Bronfman was a philanthropist and wife of billionaire Charles Bronfman, who was once co-chairman of Seagram"s Company She was a key figure in the Jewish community in New York City.
Background
She was born Andrea Brett Morrison in 1945 to a British Jewish family in London, the daughter of Hyam and Doris Morrison. Her father was a London clothier who was a leader of the United Joint Israel Appeal, and her mother, a homemaker, was a friend of the British Friends of the Museums of Israel.
Career
She died in 2006 after being hit by a taxi in Central Park. A letter of condolence from the World Jewish Congress, whose president is Edgar Bronfman Senior, called Andrea Bronfman a pillar of her family and of the Jewish community. Anthony "Tony" Cohen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Edge Investments, a hospitality and lifestyle based investment company he founded in 1998.
A memorial ceremony was held Congregation B"nai Jeshurun in Manhattan and she was buried in Jerusalem.
Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies
Gift of New York, a charity put together after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.