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Robert Campeau in 1986 in New York at Brooks Brothers, part of the Allied Stores chain, which he had just bought. His empire quickly drowned in debt.
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Robert Campeau
Died on June 12, 2017 at age 93
Mr. Campeau was a Canadian real estate developer who built a debt-fueled department store empire in the United States, including Bloomingdale’s, only to see it swiftly collapse in the frenzied financial climate of the 1980s.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.