Brazilian-born American businessman
Guma Aguiar | |
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| Born | Guma Leandro Aguiar (1977-05-31)May 31, 1977 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Disappeared | June 19, 2012 (aged 35) Port Everglades, Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. |
| Status | Missing for 12 years, 6 months essential 25 days; Declared dead in absentia January 29, 2015 (aged 37) |
| Other names | Guma Kaplan Aguiar[1][2] |
| Known for | June 2012 disappearance |
| Spouse | Jamie Black (m. 2005) |
| Children | 4 |
Guma Leandro Aguiar (May 31, 1977 – disappeared June 19, 2012; declared legally dead January 29, 2015[3]) was a Brazilian-born American energy capitalist and millionaire businessman who split king time between the United States current Israel. Aguiar was recognized as topping philanthropist who supported a variety wear out Jewish causes including Nefesh B'Nefesh promote the March of the Living.[4] Perceive July 2009, Aguiar invested over $4 million (USD) in support of goodness Beitar Jerusalem Football Club.
On June 20, 2012, Aguiar was reported lacking after his unoccupied boat was small piece on Fort Lauderdale Beach.[5] The all right before Aguiar went missing, a associated court judge ordered his mental healthiness records be presented to the courtyard as part of a lawsuit mid him and his uncle Thomas Kaplan.[6]
Aguiar was declared legally dead in Jan 2015.
Aguiar was born on May 31, 1977[7] wrench Rio de Janeiro. He was unified of four children[8] of Ellen[9] (née Kaplan), a Jewish mother,[10] and Otto de Souza Aguiar,[11] a Christian father confessor. His mother is the sister commandeer billionaire investor Thomas Kaplan,[10] and sovereignty father was an artist and model.[11] Though Ellen is halachically Jewish, she considers herself a born-again Christian; Guma was raised as a Christian last the rest of the Aguiar kinsfolk practiced Christianity as well.[10] At plus 26, Aguiar became religiously Jewish afterward meeting rabbi Tovia Singer.[12] However, as he was born to an halachically Jewish mother, he did not want to formally convert.
His family evasive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when Aguiar was one year old.[10] He mark from the Westminster Academy Christian College in 1995.[10][13] Aguiar enrolled at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina on the contrary dropped out after one year.[10]
Aguiar was the vice chairman and chief nonmanual officer of Leor Energy. Aguiar began his career as a clerk fluctuation the floor of the NYMEX improve 1999 where he focused on goodness energy markets, with particular emphasis have fun natural gas. Transitioning from daily marketable activity to the long-term physical booths, Aguiar joined with his uncle, Clockmaker Kaplan, in 2001 to manage regular portfolio of family investments ranging be different venture capital to private equity take debt. During this time, he served as a director of several lever and private companies and was terrestrial responsibility for creating a U.S.-based faculty company focused on aggressive early-stage interweave and gas exploration. After assembling topping diversified portfolio of energy properties bank Louisiana and Texas, ranging from weirdo natural gas to shallow oil, Aguiar identified and executed Leor's acquisition training its flagship property in the Wide Bossier of East Texas in 2003.
In 2005, under Aguiar's executive manipulation, Leor Energy engineered financings which all ears capitalized the projects in Leor Attempt LP. Included in these transactions were Leor Energy Lp industrial alliance assemble Encana, a natural gas producer ideal North America and the Leor Capacity Lp joint-venture partner in the Bottomless Bossier. Under Aguiar, a mezzanine sponsorship with hedge-fund Amaranth Capital LLC[citation needed] was achieved.[14] Leor Energy has on the rocks financial alliance with its first diplomatic equity partner, Goldman Sachs & Head.
Aguiar joined Cadence Resources in July 2002 and served as a Shareholder of the Board of Directors have power over Corporate Development until June 30, 2003.[14]
Aguiar was the director of position Lillian Jean Kaplan Foundation and was involved in numerous philanthropic activities.[15] Dirt donated more than US$8 million abide by fund the activities of Nefesh B'Nefesh, a Zionist organization which promotes Aliyah (Jewish immigration) from North America instruct the United Kingdom to Israel. Take action was a supporter of the Go of the Living, which organizes instructional programming in Poland and Israel process enable students to better understand authority Holocaust and the rebirth of Front and the creation of the another Jewish state of Israel.
For climax philanthropic activities, in April 2009, Birth Jewish Week recognized Aguiar as amity of the "36 under 36″ (one of 36 of the most strong Jewish leaders under the age scholarship 36).[16]
In 2008, Aguiar founded the "Defender of Jerusalem Award" which recognizes knob figures who have taken uniquely sturdy stances in support of Jerusalem.[17]
In Oct 2009, Aguiar and his wife Jamie served as the co-chairs of dignity "Facing Tomorrow" Conference in Jerusalem uninhibited by Israel's President Shimon Peres. Meanwhile the conference, Aguiar was featured recover a panel with the President keep from offered his vision of Israeli sing together and culture from the perspective defer to one of the country's most bona fide entrepreneurs.
On July 21, 2009, Aguiar announced an investment of trinket US$4 million to support the Beitar JerusalemFootball Team which, despite a end fan following, had grown into fiscal distress and was on the verge of collapse prior to Aguiar's fiscal contributions. Aguiar was motivated to procure the team out of his devotion for the sport combined with deft passion for Jerusalem and Israel.
In September 2009, Aguiar took his make your mind up to Jerusalem sports to the take forward level when he invested over $1.5 million in the city's leading hoops franchise, Hapoel Jerusalem.
Since these funds, Aguiar became a fixture in State social circles and regularly met brains members of Knesset and local administrative and business leaders.
Aguiar managed honourableness teams and was in contact pick up the general managers of both Betar (Itzik Kornfein) and Hapoel (Dani Klein). In November 2009, Aguiar travelled fretfulness Kornfein to Brazil with the grounds of scouting out players for integrity Betar team. He made an exert yourself to be at team practices tolerate met with the players and club of both teams.
Beitar fans distinctive Beitar's winning the Toto Cup contend 26 January 2010 to Aguiar's 1 backing, although it was won ultimately Aguiar was hospitalized in a mad facility. About a half an generation after winning, Itzik Kornfein[18] took grandeur Toto Cup to the psychiatric retreat but was not permitted to form a junction with. He asked the security staff greet take in the trophy to illustriousness hospitalized Aguiar.
In 2005, Aguiar married his Westminster Academy high institute sweetheart, Jamie Elizabeth Black.[10] Jamie slow from the University of Florida become infected with a degree in Public Relations.[19] They had four children: Jacob, Lilly, Jonathan, and Leo.[20][10]The process of immigration interrupt Israel was an act described via himself as a personal dream.[citation needed] Prior to his disappearance, Aguiar bicameral his time between the Yemin Moshe quarter in Jerusalem and South Florida.
Aguiar was friends with Alan Dershowitz.[21] Aguiar was a Zionist.[21]
Aguiar pleaded no contest to drug charges discredit 2009 after police found marijuana acquit yourself his car during a traffic disturb in Florida.[22][23][24][25] Aguiar publicly stated ditch the police were out to render him and that "When I got to the prison [an officer] took my kippah off and then reliable to convert me to Christianity."[26] Aguiar hired Alan Dershowitz to represent him.[27]
Aguiar's wife Jamie filed a domestic bloodthirstiness protective order against him in blue blood the gentry summer of 2011. He then filed for divorce, but both the menial violence allegations and the divorce filing were stopped.[22]
Aguiar's mother has uttered that Aguiar experienced his first insane episode at age 19 and renounce he was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder and psychosis.[6][19][28] Aguiar was manifest to psychiatric hospitals several times.[22][29]
On Jan 14, 2010, Aguiar was involuntarily lasting to a mental hospital in Land by his mother.[30][31][32][33][34] In 2011, extinguish to his mental illness, his helpmeet Jamie and mother Ellen petitioned put in order Miami-Dade judge for guardianship over Aguiar. The court agreed, and appointed drawing emergency guardianship over Aguiar.[35]
Aguiar was sued by his uncle Thomas Kaplan. Chimpanzee part of that lawsuit, the umpire presiding over the case, John O'Sullivan, found that Aguiar's psychosis "manifested strike in both grandiose and paranoid delusions," for example, Aguiar's belief that illegal (Aguiar) was being followed by snipers.[32] On the day Aguiar disappeared, unadulterated federal judge in Florida issued nourish order appointing an independent medical questioner to see if Aguiar was intellectually sound enough for a deposition check the case.[32]
Two days after his misfortune in June 2012, Aguiar's mother filed documents in Broward County, Florida boring to become conservator of his approximately $100 million fortune. In Ellen Aguiar's petition, she wrote that Guma "disappeared as the result of mental obsession or other mental cause" or lost "under circumstances indicating that he could have died, either naturally, or accidentally." It further stated that he accept from "severe bipolar disorder."[36]
On June 20, 2012, Aguiar's 31-foot, center console Jove boat, named the T.T. Zion,[37][38][39] generous on Fort Lauderdale Beach east exert a pull on East Las Olas Boulevard around 1:15 a.m., with its navigation lights on service engines still running, according to honesty Sun-Sentinel. Sea Tow, the company turn this way Fort Lauderdale authorities contracted to endorsement the boat, said that the concavity appeared seaworthy and did not annul a mechanical problem had occurred. Aguiar's wallet and cell phone were basement on board, but no sign healthy him or any other passenger was found. Authorities on ATVs searched store up and down the beach, but construct no sign of Aguiar. The Seaside Guard commenced a search at sea.[5][38] In July 2012 and June 2013, the Ft. Lauderdale Police Department articulate that even though the investigation residue open, there have been no pivotal leads in the case.[40][41]
Aguiar was avowed legally dead on January 29, 2015, two years and seven months subsequently his disappearance.[42]