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Forward, September, 2005 by Leon, Masha
Leon, Masha
Forward
09-02-2005
Bidding Abe Hirschfeld Farewell Parking-garage mogul, publicity hound and overall one-of-a-kind character Abe Hirschfeld died of cancer August 9. The August 10 New York Post headline read, "A 'Post' Mortem for Crazy Abe Hirschfeld" (who had owned the paper for two weeks in 1993). The more sedate New York Times went with "Abe Hirschfeld, a Millionaire and an Eccentric, Dies at 85." Then there was the August 16 ad placed in The Times by Hirschfeld Properties LLC: "We Mourn the Loss of Our Inspiration, Abe Hirschfeld." Born in Poland in 1919, Hirschfeld moved to Israel in 1933 and came to the United States in the 1950s. His bizarre curriculum vitae includes: offering -- though never paying --$1 million to Paula Jones to settle her...
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