Eric Louis Zinterhofer (born August 1971) is an American private equity financier, and a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners.

Early life

Eric Zinterhofer was born in August 1971. He is the son of Dr Louis J. M. Zinterhofer and Susan A. Zinterhofer of Rumson, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universit ...

Career

In 1998, he took a job under Leon Black at Apollo Global Management. In 2010, he co-founded Searchlight Capital with Oliver Haarmann and

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Personal life

In June 1996, Zinterhofer married

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heiress Aerin Lauder, the daughter of

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in his home at Wainscott, Long Island, New York, with Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein presiding. They have two sons. They live in New York City and have homes in Easthampton, New York, and

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References

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