Early Life and Family
Heyman was born in Danbury, Connecticut to Lazarus and Annette Heyman. His father was a real estate developer.
As an undergraduate at Yale College, Heyman was a regionally ranked varsity tennis player and member of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating from Yale in 1960, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1963. After graduation, he became an attorney for the US Department of Justice during the Kennedy Administration, rising to become Chief Assistant United States Attorney for Connecticut. In 1968, after the death of his father, he took over his family's Connecticut-based real estate firm, Heyman Properties. Under his leadership, the company became one of New England's largest commercial real estate developers.
Heyman married his wife, Ronnie Feuerstein Heyman, in 1970. Together, they had four children and nine grandchildren. Heyman and his wife owned a large collection of modern art, including works by Alberto Giacometti, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
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