Personal Life
Wasserstein has been married four times and has six biological children:
- In 1968, he married Laura Lynelle Killin. They divorced in 1974.
- Christine Parrott (divorced 1992). They had three children: Ben, Pam and Skip. Christine is a psychoanalyst and has since remarried to American journalist and newspaper publisher Dan Rattiner.
- Claude Becker (married 1996). They had two sons: Jack and Dash. Prior to her marriage to Wasserstein, Claude was a CBS news producer.
- Angela Chao,(married 2009) the sister of former Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
Bruce also fathered a sixth biological child, Sky Wendy Esme Wasserstein (born June 2008), following his separation from Claude and prior to his relationship to Angela Chao. The mother was an "unidentified recent Columbia Business School graduate."
Bruce Wasserstein was predeceased by his two siblings: businesswoman Sandra Wasserstein Meyer and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose daughter, Lucy Jane, he was raising.
His political position was liberal, and he was involved with media since high school and college, when he was an editor on his high school newspaper, The McBurneian, (McBurney School, New York), and later at the University of Michigan Michigan Daily, then served an internship at Forbes Magazine. Inspired by Ralph Nader, he was one of Nader's Raiders for a brief length of time. Rahm Emanuel and Vernon Jordan were employed by Wasserstein for a few years.
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