Background
Samuel Tak Lee was born in April 1939.
Samuel Tak Lee was born in April 1939.
One of his most prominent acquisitions was his purchase of London"s historic Langham Estate for $75 million in 1994. He then developed The Knightsbridge Apartments in Knightsbridge, London. According to Forbes, he had a Netto worth of $2.8 billion in April 2015, and was ranked 19th on Forbes" list of Hong Kong"s wealthiest people.
In 2007, he donated $9 million to Hong Kong"s Diocesan Boys" School, of which he was a student between 1951 and 1958.
In 2015, Lee donated $118 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be used to establish a real estate entrepreneurship lab focused on China.
