George Lindemann

George Lyle Lindemann (March 26, 1936 – June 21, 2018) was an American billionaire businessman known for being the chairman and chief executive officer of Southern Union, a fossil fuel infrastructure and pipeline company. He was also the owner of 19 Spanish-language radio stations

He ranked #703 on the Forbes 2018 list of the world's billionaires, with a net worth of US$3.3 billion.

In 2023, the Lindemann family agreed to return 33 ancient statues which had been stolen from Cambodia, valued at $20 million.

Career In 1957, Lindemann began his career with his father's business, a cosmetics and hair care company called The Nestle-LeMur. From 1962 to 1972, Lindemann was the president of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company. In 1972, Lindemann founded cable TV firm Vision Cable, which he sold a decade later to Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr. and his brother for $220 million. of Aristotle Onassis's New York City townhouse, which was later owned by John C. Whitehead.

Early life and education George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family in 1936 in New York City. including ornate clocks, bejeweled art pieces, luxury objects, and stolen Cambodian artifacts have been featured in Architectural Digest.

Seventy objects from the collection were presented in the exhibit “Cartier masterworks From The George and Frayda Lindemann Collection” at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in 1989. The collection totaled “half an acre of diamonds, rubies, pearls and semiprecious stones set in platinum, gold and silver and features a topaz as big as the Ritz.”

The San Diego Museum of Art featured pieces from the collection in a 1989 show entitled “Reflections of Elegance: Cartier Jewels from the Lindemann Collection”. The collection was the focus of a monograph published by the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1999.

Art experts and archaeologists working with the Cambodian Ministry of Culture have stated that some of the Khmer artworks in Lindemann's collection were "definitely looted." Photographs of his collection included in a 2008 issue of Architectural Digest were identified as looted material sold by Douglas Latchford. at New York University Law School, which pays full tuition for one year for an NYU law student pursuing public service law. George Lindemann made a donation to support Brown University's Political Theory Project, an effort to encourage the study of political topics from a “variety of ideological perspectives.” The Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera is named after him and his wife. The Lindemann family also donated to the Greenwich Hospital Foundation.

The Lindemann family are longtime residents of Greenwich, Connecticut. After George Lindemann died, his wife Frayda, sons Adam and George Jr., and daughter Sloan Lindemann Barnett donated to refurbish the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where George Lindemann received care. They named the ICU in honor of his doctor there, Greenwich physician James A. Brunetti, DO.

Political contributions

He made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx. He was a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.

Personal life Lindemann was married to Frayda B. Lindemann Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC. Photographs of her San Francisco house appeared in the January 2021 issue of Architectural Digest. After publication it emerged that they had been digitally altered to remove images of allegedly looted Khmer sculptures. George Lindemann Jr. is an art collector, investor, philanthropist in Miami.

Lindemann was the president of the board of directors of the Bass Museum of Art. He lived in Palm Beach, Florida, but sold the house in 2008. He had other homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.