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Bruce Ratner (January 23, 1945) is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and former minority owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
Ratner was born into a Jewish family in the Cleveland metropolitan area, the son of Anne (née Spott) and Harry Ratner, one of eight children to immigrate to the US from Poland. Four of his paternal uncles, Leonard Ratner, Charles Ratner, Max Ratner, and Nate Shafran along with his aunt, Fannye Ratner Shafran founded Forest City Enterprises in 1920; originally a construction materials company it eventually evolved into construction and then into real estate development. Ratner’s older brother was the late civil liberties attorney and activist Michael Ratner; his sister is Ellen Ratner, a former news analyst for Fox News. Ratner graduated from Harvard College in 1967 and earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia University in 1970.
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