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1. www.drf.com › news › owner-breeder-leonard-riggioOwner-breeder Leonard Riggio dies at 83 - Daily Racing Form

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   Aug 28, 2024 · Michael Amoruso Leonard Riggio was the breeder of 2017 Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit. Leonard Riggio, the founder of the Barnes & Noble book-selling chain and a horse owner and board member of the ...

2. www.bloodhorse.com › horse-racing › articlesSuccessful New York Owner/Breeder Riggio Dies at 83

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   Aug 28, 2024 · August 28, 2024. Innovative book retailer, philanthropist, and successful Thoroughbred owner/breeder Leonard "Len" Riggio died Aug. 27 in New York City, according to a family spokeswoman and ...

3. www.npr.org › barnes-noble-leonard-riggio-obituaryLeonard Riggio, who led bookseller Barnes & Noble, dies at 83 ...

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   Aug 27, 2024 · Leonard Riggio, then chairman of Barnes & Noble, arrives at a bookstore in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. Riggio died on Tuesday. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption

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   Aug 28, 2024 · August 28, 2024 at 7:05 p.m. EDT. Leonard Riggio, a swaggering Brooklyn-bred executive who grew Barnes & Noble into the country’s largest bookselling chain, then sparred with Amazon as online ...

5. www.ft.com › content › 0551a3a9-600d-4add-858c-d2986Leonard Riggio, bookseller, 1941-2024 - Financial Times

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   Aug 31, 2024 · Leonard Riggio, who has died aged 83, had a different vision. As chief executive of the US shop chain Barnes & Noble, in the 1990s he built book palaces as large as 60,000 sq ft in communities as ...

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6. www.pressdemocrat.com › article › newsLeonard Riggio, who forged a bookselling empire at Barnes ...

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   Aug 27, 2024 · Riggio’s near-half century reign began in 1971 when he used a $1.2 million loan to purchase Barnes & Noble's name and its flagship store on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

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   Who was Leonard Riggio?

   • Riggio died on Tuesday. NEW YORK — Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has died at age 83.

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   How did Leonard Riggio change the publishing industry?

   • Leonard Riggio transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.

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   How did Riggio die?

   • Riggio died Tuesday “following a valiant battle with Alzheimer’s disease,” according to a statement issued by his family. He had stepped down as chairman in 2019 after the chain was sold to the hedge fund Elliott Advisors.

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   What did Steve Riggio do for a living?

   • Bookselling and family often overlapped for Riggio. His brother Steve Riggio served for years as vice chairman of Barnes & Noble and another brother, Thomas Riggio, helped run a trucking company that shipped the store’s books.

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   Where was Riggio born & raised?

   • Born in 1941, Riggio was raised in the working-class neighbourhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. His father was a taxi driver and former prizefighter with radical social views, his mother a dressmaker.

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8. www.legacy.com › us › obituariesLeonard Riggio Obituary (1941 - 2024) - Legacy Remembers

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   Aug 28, 2024 · Leonard Riggio Obituary. Published by Legacy Remembers from Aug. 28 to Aug. 29, 2024. Leonard Riggio was a businessman who, starting in 1971, expanded Barnes & Noble from a single Manhattan store ...