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Sixers co-owner Marc Leder is a party animal, paper reports

Sixers co-owner Marc Leder, at whose Florida home Mitt Romney remarked that 47 percent of the nation "believe that they are victims," is known to throw wild parties in the Hamptons, reports the New York Post. The paper says "guests cavorted in a pool and performed sex acts, while scantily clad Russian women danced on platforms," at a rented home in Bridgehampton, N.Y., during a summer bash last year. The Post said Leder went on something of a tear after his wife of 22 years, Lisa, cheated on him with her tennis instructor in 2009.

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Sixers co-owner Marc Leder is a party animal, paper reports

POSTED: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 7:25 AM

Dan Gross

Sixers co-owner Marc Leder at a party in 2011. Photo: Getty Images

Sixers co-owner Marc Leder, at whose Florida home Mitt Romney remarked that 47 percent of the nation "believe that they are victims," is known to throw wild parties in the Hamptons, reports the New York Post.

The paper says "guests cavorted in a pool and performed sex acts, while scantily clad Russian women danced on platforms," at a rented home in Bridgehampton, N.Y., during a summer bash last year.

The Post said Leder went on something of a tear after his wife of 22 years, Lisa, cheated on him with her tennis instructor in 2009.

At the time of the Post's 2011 report about the divorced Leder's wild ways, the paper quoted a source who said: "So many girls think they're dating him. There are at least three that I know of."

Hip-hop/fashion mogul Russell Simmons; his ex-wife, Kimora Lee Simmons, and her new actor husband, Djimon Hounsou, have been guests at Leder's parties, but did not attend the Romney one.

Leder, who owns Sun Capital, a private-equity firm based in Boca Raton, Fla., went to the Wharton School. In 2011 he joined fellow Wharton grads Joshua Harris and David Blitzer to purchase the Sixers. Harris and Blitzer are co-managing owners with at least 10 other partners, including Will Smith, wife Jada Pinkett Smith and James Lassiter, Smith's longtime producing partner in Overbrook Entertainment, all of whom own much smaller stakes.

A Sixers spokesman said the team had no comment.

A woman who answered the phone at Sun Capital said there was nobody there who could discuss the Romney fundraiser, and a detailed email requesting comment was not answered Tuesday.

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Comments (8)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:49 AM, 09/19/2012

can a brother get an invite?

— slanted and enchanted

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:13 AM, 09/19/2012

My prediction: The two Phila. newspapers, plus ultra-lefties City Paper and PW, start publishing a string of anti-Sixers columns for the next week. Pretty soon Occupy Philly will be out at the WF Center to protest before games, too.

— everydayguy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:21 AM, 09/19/2012

slanted and enchanted is Boloris

— Earl J

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:23 AM, 09/19/2012

Ahh....another family man in the NBA.

— bobcitydoc

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:50 AM, 09/19/2012

Did he do anything illegal? No, then move on nothing to see here

— cuso20

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:28 AM, 09/19/2012

Penn frat boys and girls gone wild. So what else is new? Happens every weekend in West Philly.

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:41 AM, 09/19/2012

Actually, the astonishment and implied judgment of his behavior is all far right MO.

Who cares? Were the people he partied with adults? Unless, of course, Mittens was in on the action. But, really... Is this any of our business?

— PotteryPete