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  1. Leonard Stephen Riggio (February 28, 1941 – August 27, 2024) was an American businessman. He served as executive chairman of book store chain Barnes & Noble and was its largest shareholder from 1971 [ 1 ] until the sale of the company to the hedge fund Elliott Investment Management in 2019. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Under his leadership the company expanded ...

  2. Aug 31, 2024 · 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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  3. Aug 27, 2024 · February 28, 1941 – August 27, 2024. NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leonard Riggio, founder and former chairman of Barnes & Noble, Inc., has died following a valiant battle with ...

  4. Aug 27, 2024 · Washington, D.C. Riggio-Lynch Chapel Clinton, Tennessee. Leonard Riggio, founder and former chairman of Barnes & Noble, Inc., has died following a valiant battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 83.

  5. Aug 30, 2024 · Leonard Stephen Riggio was born on Feb. 28, 1941, on Mott Street in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan and grew up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

  6. Aug 27, 2024 · Leonard Riggio was born in 1941 in New York. For much of his childhood, he was raised in Brooklyn. After he graduated high school, he took night classes at New York University.

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  8. Aug 27, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — 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. Riggio died Tuesday “following a valiant battle with Alzheimer’s disease ...