Sanford Diller

About Sanford Diller

Birth Day: June 04, 1928
Birth Place: Woodside, California, United States
Education: B.A. University of California, Berkeley J.D. Hastings College of the Law
Occupation: real estate developer
Known for: founder of Prometheus Real Estate Group
Spouse(s): Helen Samuels
Children: Brad Diller Ron Diller Jackie Diller Salfier

Sanford Diller

Sanford Diller was born on June 04, 1928 in Woodside, California, United States. Sanford Diller's Prometheus Real Estate Group is one of the largest apartment owners on the West Coast. Diller made a fortune on the housing boom in San Francisco Bay Area, where he has close to 13,000 units. He also has apartments in Seattle & Portland. Diller began investing in Silicon Valley real estate in 1965. The charitable Helen Diller Foundation is named after his wife, who died in 2015. Diller gave UCSF $35 million for cancer research in 2004; his foundation pledged another $500 million to the school in January 2017.
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As per our current Database, Sanford Diller has been died on 2 February 2018(2018-02-02) (aged 89)\nWoodside, California, U.S..

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When Sanford Diller die, Sanford Diller was 89 years old.

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Occupation Real Estate
Age 89 years old
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Born June 04, 1928 (Woodside, California, United States)
Birthday June 04
Town/City Woodside, California, United States
Nationality United States

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Biography/Timeline

1951

In 1951, Diller married Helen Samuels (born 1928), the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland, and fellow University of California, Berkeley graduate who he met in college. Her Father was a clothing salesman and shop owner. They have three children: Brad Diller, Ron Diller, and Jackie Safier, President of Prometheus. The Dillers live in Woodside, California.

1960

The son of Jewish immigrants from Austria who had settled in San Francisco, Diller graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and then graduated with a J.D. from the Hastings College of the Law. After law school, Diller began acquiring and developing real estate in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he founded the Prometheus Real Estate Group. Prometheus grew to become the San Francisco Bay area's largest closely held owner of apartments with over 11,000 owned units and is valued at $2.3 billion. Prometheus is owned by Diller and his wife through a revocable trust.

2002

In 2002, the Helen Diller Family Program in Jewish Studies donated $5 million to establish an endowment for a visiting Israeli scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. In 2003, the Dillers donated $35 million to fund The Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Care Center at the UC San Francisco complex on the biomedical campus of Mission Bay. Since 1999, the Dillers have donated $200 million via their family foundation named after his wife, The Helen Diller Family Foundation. Other major gifts have funded Jewish studies programs at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, the renovation of the Julius Kahn playground at the Presidio, and a new preschool in the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. Since 2007, the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards have recognized Californian Jewish teens who are outstanding role Models in their communities.

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