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Charles Francis Dolan (October 16, 1926 – December 28, 2024) was an American billionaire businessman, best known as founder of Cablevision and HBO. [1] Today, the Dolan family controls Madison Square Garden Sports, MSG Networks, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Madison Square Garden, the Sphere, Radio City Music Hall, BBC America, and AMC Networks.
They married on January 6, 1759, [9] making Patsy, age two, and her brother John "Jacky" Parke Custis, age four, stepchildren of George Washington. [2] As the Washingtons entered into public life together, Martha Washington came to be known by her formal name, while her daughter and namesake was known as "Patsy". [7]
The Syphax family is a prominent American family in the Washington, D.C., area. A part of the African-American upper class, the family is descended from Charles Syphax and Mariah Carter Syphax, both born into slavery. She was the daughter of an enslaved woman and planter George Washington Parke Custis, only grandson of First Lady Martha ...
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 98.
Charles F. Dolan, the media pioneer and businessman who founded HBO in the early 1970s, merged a group of Long Island cable TV systems into Cablevision, and later created the channel AMC, has died ...
Related: Charles Shyer, Father of the Bride Director, Dies at 83 After a Brief Illness: 'His Legacy Lives on' Dolan's career kicked off when he founded Sterling Manhattan Cable in 1962.The company ...
Maria Carter was born in 1803, [1] [2] the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Daniel Parke Custis, and a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Her mother was an enslaved maid at Mount Vernon named Airy or Arianna Carter. In an interview published decades later, Carter said that Custis had told her "face to face" that he ...
Patrick Dolan then purchased the remaining 25% stake in 2018. At the time of his death, Charles Dolan and his family had a net worth of $5.4 billion, Forbes reported. Dolan was a founder and chairman emeritus of The Lustgarten Foundation in Uniondale, New York, which conducts pancreatic cancer research.