Stephen Muss

Stephen Hobart Muss (August 4, 1928 – August 23, 2025) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist known for leading the resurgence and redevelopment of Miami Beach, Florida.

Early life and education Stephen Hobart Muss was born to a Jewish family on August 4, 1928, in New York City, His father, Alexander, was one of eleven children, six of them brothers who worked for their father's construction company building homes during and after the Great Depression. In the 1950s, his family moved to Florida for $165 million. He was the president of the Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency. In 1994, he sold the Seacoast Towers for $94 million. Muss served as Board Chair of Temple Emanu-El in Miami Beach and also served on the board of the Miami Art Museum and on the Board of Governors of Haifa University.

Personal life and death Muss had three children with Carol Matelson, in a marriage that ended in divorce; he also had two children from his later marriage to Maureen Haver, who died in 1993.