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Samuel "Sammy" Tak Lee or Samuel "Sammy" Lee Tak-Yee (born April 1939) is a London-based Hong Kong billionaire property developer.
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Early life
Samuel Tak Lee was born in April 1939. He has a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Career
Lee is the head of Prudential Enterprise which owns the Prudential Hotel in Hong Kong and a large portfolio of property around the world, including a 16-acre estate between Soho and Mayfair.
One of his most prominent acquisitions was his purchase of London's historic Langham Estate for $75 million in 1994. He then developed The Knightsbridge Apartments in Knightsbridge, London.
According to Forbes, he had a net worth of $2.8 billion, as of 2015, and was ranked 19th on Forbes' list of Hong Kong's wealthiest people.
Philanthropy
In 2007, he donated $9 million to Hong Kong's Diocesan Boys' School, of which he was a student between 1951 and 1958.
In 2015, Lee donated $118 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be used to establish a real estate entrepreneurship lab focused on China.
Personal life
He has seven children and lives between Hong Kong and London.