Fayez S Sarofim

Former director of the Houston-based energy company Kinder Morgan, and the heir to an Egyptian cotton fortune

Fayez Sarofim, the billionaire money manager, died in May 2022 at his home in Houston, at age 93. Fayez S. Sarofim had been a director of the Company since March 1990. He had been Chairman of the Board and President of Fayez Sarofim & Co., a registered investment advisor, for more than five years. He was also a director of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (resulting from the merger of Argonaut Group, Inc. and PXRE Group Ltd.), an international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products in the property and casualty market, and Knight Inc. (formerly known as Kinder Morgan, Inc.), an energy services provider. His current worth' was listed as $1.49 billion. Publicity-shy and nicknamed "the Sphinx" for his reserved and formal persona, the Egyptian-born, Harvard-educated businessman is chairman and co-chief investment officer of Fayez Sarofim & Co, a money management firm. in 2022 assets under management top $30 billion, and son Christopher Sarofim runs the company. He was an early investor in the Kinder Morgan energy pipeline and is a limited partner in the Texans football team ownership group. Sarofim spent a lot of money on divorces. In 1989 Louisa (who bore him two children) filed for divorce after reportedly being the last person in Houston’s tony River Oaks neighborhood to know that Fayez had been having an affair with one of his employees, Linda Hicks, with whom Sarofim had another three kids. He settled with Louisa for more than $100 million in 1990. Media Summit Sarofim, 2009. ASSOCIATED PRESS Though he bought Linda a 22,000 square foot mansion on River Oaks Boulevard, their subsequent marriage ended in 1996 and cost at least $60 million. Ever the ladies’ man, Sarofim raised eyebrows around town when he married again in 2015 to Susan Krohn, the mother of his son Phillip’s (now ex-) wife Lori, herself the ex-wife of Houston oil tycoon Tracy Krohn.

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Harold Simmons	Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Mark Odom Hatfield, Michael Huffington, Lloyd M Bentsen, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Texas, Mitt Romney
Cary M Maguire	Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Michael Huffington, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Republican Party of Texas, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory
Stephen Schwarzman	John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Bob Packwood, Michael Huffington, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Richard W Fisher, Right to Rise USA
John K Castle	Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Michael Huffington, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Republican Party of Texas, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory
Richard R Rogers	Peter S Wareing, Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Michael Allen Andrews, Lloyd M Bentsen, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Texas, Mitt Romney
John C Whitehead	Dennis Hastert, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Charles Spittal Robb, Bob Dole, Mark Odom Hatfield, Bob Packwood, Michael Huffington, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney
Lonnie A Pilgrim	John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Ken Bentsen, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Michael Allen Andrews, Lloyd M Bentsen, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Republican Party of Texas, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Romney Victory
Regina Rogers	Peter S Wareing, Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Sheila Jackson-Lee, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Ken Bentsen, Phil Gramm, Bob Packwood, Michael Allen Andrews, Lloyd M Bentsen, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, Bill White
Gerald Douglas Hines	Peter S Wareing, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Arlen Specter, Ken Bentsen, Phil Gramm, Charles Spittal Robb, Bob Dole, Michael Allen Andrews, Lloyd M Bentsen, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill White, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory
Stephen I Chazen	John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Bob Packwood, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Republican Party of Texas, Mitt Romney, Romney Victory
Trammell S Crow	John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Michael Allen Andrews, Lloyd M Bentsen, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Texas, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Richard W Fisher
Annette C Simmons	John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Michael Huffington, Lloyd M Bentsen, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, McCain Victory Committee, Mitt Romney, Right to Rise USA
Roy Pfautch	Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Bob Packwood, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Right to Rise USA
Donald G Fisher	Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Arlen Specter, Bob Dole, Mark Odom Hatfield, Bob Packwood, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney
Charles B Johnson	Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Bob Packwood, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory
T Boone Pickens	John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Bob Packwood, Michael Allen Andrews, Michael Huffington, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Texas, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory
Eric M Javits	Dennis Hastert, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Mark Odom Hatfield, Bob Packwood, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Barry Hinckley
Leslie Rose	Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Romney Victory
John L Nau III	Peter S Wareing, Dennis Hastert, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Ken Bentsen, Bob Dole, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Texas, Mitt Romney, Richard W Fisher, Right to Rise USA
Robert Holmes Tuttle	John McCain, Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Mark Odom Hatfield, Michael Huffington, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Rudy Giuliani, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Right to Rise USA, Romney Victory

Types	Person, Business Person
Gender	Male
Birthday	Nov 19 '28
Date of death	May 2022
Aliases	Mr Fayez Shalaby Sarofim

Fayez S Sarofim

Former director of the Houston-based energy company Kinder Morgan, and the heir to an Egyptian cotton fortune

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