Dan Rapoport

Dan Rapoport (; April 30, 1968 – August 14, 2022) was a Latvian-American investor, financial executive, and outspoken critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin. He died after a fall from his high-rise apartment building in Washington, D.C.; the medical examiner, after an autopsy, listed the manner of death as undetermined. Rapoport's death was one of a series of suspicious deaths of Russian businessmen and Putin critics during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and it remains a source of speculation if there was foul play or not. In 1995, Rapoport joined the CentreInvest Group and in 1999 was appointed managing director of CentreInvest Securities, in New York. From 2003, he was the executive director and head of the brokerage business in Moscow for CentreInvest Securities, a brokerage specializing in mid cap equities.

Soho Rooms Rapoport was known for being co-owner of the iconic Moscow nightclub Soho Rooms. Located on , from its establishment around 2007 through much of the 2010s, it was one of the most fashionable clubs in Moscow, where oligarchs like Mikhail Prokhorov were known to party. "A table started at ₽100,000 (US$3,300), Cristal champagne flowed like a river, and Timati, VIA Gra and the best foreign DJs performed on stage", wrote one Russian newspaper

Soho Rooms closed in April 2017, with employees reporting that the club remained profitable but "times had changed." Unable to serve Rapoport with due notice at his Moscow location, the SEC in 2009 entered a default judgment. Once aware of the default judgment, Rapoport responded by filing a motion under Exchange Rule 155 (b) to vacate the judgment. After several court decisions, in 2012, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge David B. Sentelle presiding, unanimously granted Rapoport's petition to vacate, quoting the SEC's failure to consistently apply its own rule.

Life in the United States and Ukraine In June 2012, Rapoport returned to the United States. It was reported that he left Russia in large part due to his support for Russia's democratic opposition, particularly Alexei Navalny, an outspoken yet tolerated campaigner against Russian corporate and government corruption and the most vocal critic of Putin's regime. In that same year, he founded Rapoport Capital.

In 2016, Rapoport divorced his first wife, Irina, a fashion model with whom he had two kids. The sale of the Kalorama mansion made headlines after it was revealed that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump would be Luksic's new tenants.

In 2018, the investigative organization Bellingcat reported that Rapoport created the pen name David Jewberg, who was regularly quoted in Ukrainian media as a senior Pentagon analyst.

Death On the evening of August 14, 2022, Rapoport was found on the street in Washington D.C. outside 2400 M Street NW in the city's West End, a nine-story high-rise luxury apartment building from which he had fallen to his death. He was wearing flip flops and a black hat; on his body were a cracked cell phone, headphones and $2,620 in cash, but no wallet. In November the D.C. medical examiner's office issued its report, finding that the cause of death was "multiple blunt force injuries due to fall from height" and the manner of death was "undetermined"; the report did not conclusively explain the circumstances leading up to his death. Because the manner of death is undetermined, the case remains technically open, but it was not being actively investigated, until or unless new information emerged.

His death was cited by some as suspicious. "Whenever someone who is in a negative view of the Putin regime dies suspiciously, one should rule out foul play, not rule it in," Bill Browder said. David Satter said about the case "Nothing adds up ... everything we do know is very, very strange." Fiona Hill remained wary, telling Politico "Not every unexplained death in Russia is the KGB or the GRU bumping someone off." Ilya Ponomarev said Rapoport seemed depressed to him, but didn't seem suicidal. A friend in Washington, Yuri Somov, said he thinks the suicide story is plausible. According to Somov, Rapoport told him that it had "been a very difficult three months", which Somov observed, "From him, particularly, that's saying a lot. More than notable, it was extraordinary." His widow does not believe it was suicide and was seeking an independent blood analysis.