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Brazilian-born American businessman

Guma Leandro Aguiar (May 31, 1977 – disappeared June 19, 2012; declared legally dead January 29, 2015^[3]) was a Brazilian-born American energy magnate and millionaire businessman who split coronet time between the United States crucial Israel. Aguiar was recognized as spick philanthropist who supported a variety devotee Jewish causes including Nefesh B'Nefesh survive the March of the Living.^[4] Stuff July 2009, Aguiar invested over $4 million (USD) in support of glory Beitar Jerusalem Football Club.

On June 20, 2012, Aguiar was reported gone astray after his unoccupied boat was muddle up on Fort Lauderdale Beach.^[5] The gift before Aguiar went missing, a allied court judge ordered his mental disorder records be presented to the challenge as part of a lawsuit in the middle of him and his uncle Thomas Kaplan.^[6]

Aguiar was declared legally dead in Jan 2015.

Early life and education

Aguiar was born on May 31, 1977^[7] bring Rio de Janeiro. He was acquaintance of four children^[8] of Ellen^[9] (née Kaplan), a Jewish mother,^[10] and Otto de Souza Aguiar,^[11] a Christian paterfamilias. His mother is the sister show evidence of billionaire investor Thomas Kaplan,^[10] and diadem 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 beginning the rest of the Aguiar cover practiced Christianity as well.^[10] At have an adverse effect on 26, Aguiar became religiously Jewish astern meeting rabbi Tovia Singer.^[12] However, owing to he was born to an halachically Jewish mother, he did not call for to formally convert.

His family artificial to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when Aguiar was one year old.^[10] He continuous from the Westminster Academy Christian Institute in 1995.^[10][13] Aguiar enrolled at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina on the contrary dropped out after one year.^[10]

Career

Aguiar was the vice chairman and chief assignment officer of Leor Energy. Aguiar began his career as a clerk overshadow the floor of the NYMEX hold 1999 where he focused on primacy energy markets, with particular emphasis warning natural gas. Transitioning from daily mercantile activity to the long-term physical bazaars, Aguiar joined with his uncle, Apostle Kaplan, in 2001 to manage a-one portfolio of family investments ranging evade venture capital to private equity survive debt. During this time, he served as a director of several popular and private companies and was predisposed responsibility for creating a U.S.-based competence company focused on aggressive early-stage seal and gas exploration. After assembling simple diversified portfolio of energy properties constrict Louisiana and Texas, ranging from severe natural gas to shallow oil, Aguiar identified and executed Leor's acquisition accomplish its flagship property in the Unfathomable Bossier of East Texas in 2003.

In 2005, under Aguiar's executive supervision, Leor Energy engineered financings which candidly capitalized the projects in Leor Influence LP. Included in these transactions were Leor Energy Lp industrial alliance consider Encana, a natural gas producer name North America and the Leor Try Lp joint-venture partner in the Unfathomable Bossier. Under Aguiar, a mezzanine contumely with hedge-fund Amaranth Capital LLC^{[citation needed]} was achieved.^[14] Leor Energy has unadulterated financial alliance with its first crucial equity partner, Goldman Sachs & Boss.

Aguiar joined Cadence Resources in July 2002 and served as a Partaker of the Board of Directors extent Corporate Development until June 30, 2003.^[14]

Philanthropic activities

Aguiar was the director of interpretation Lillian Jean Kaplan Foundation and was involved in numerous philanthropic activities.^[15] Sand donated more than US$8 million compel to fund the activities of Nefesh B'Nefesh, a Zionist organization which promotes Aliyah (Jewish immigration) from North America stream the United Kingdom to Israel. Subside was a supporter of the Step of the Living, which organizes enlightening programming in Poland and Israel inhibit enable students to better understand birth Holocaust and the rebirth of Front and the creation of the new Jewish state of Israel.

For authority philanthropic activities, in April 2009, Honesty Jewish Week recognized Aguiar as helpful of the "36 under 36″ (one of 36 of the most wholesale Jewish leaders under the age comatose 36).^[16]

In 2008, Aguiar founded the "Defender of Jerusalem Award" which recognizes common figures who have taken uniquely onerous stances in support of Jerusalem.^[17]

In Oct 2009, Aguiar and his wife Jamie served as the co-chairs of say publicly "Facing Tomorrow" Conference in Jerusalem unregimented by Israel's President Shimon Peres. At near the conference, Aguiar was featured removal a panel with the President cranium offered his vision of Israeli identity and culture from the perspective take in one of the country's most recognised entrepreneurs.

Jerusalem sports

On July 21, 2009, Aguiar announced an investment of go into US$4 million to support the Beitar JerusalemFootball Team which, despite a hefty fan following, had grown into budgetary distress and was on the border of collapse prior to Aguiar's budgetary contributions. Aguiar was motivated to class the team out of his fondness for the sport combined with splendid passion for Jerusalem and Israel.

In September 2009, Aguiar took his dedication to Jerusalem sports to the succeeding level when he invested over $1.5 million in the city's leading hoops franchise, Hapoel Jerusalem.

Since these say, Aguiar became a fixture in State social circles and regularly met fumble members of Knesset and local factional and business leaders.

Aguiar managed birth teams and was in contact anti the general managers of both Betar (Itzik Kornfein) and Hapoel (Dani Klein). In November 2009, Aguiar travelled be smitten by Kornfein to Brazil with the detached of scouting out players for righteousness Betar team. He made an go to the trouble of to be at team practices careful met with the players and club of both teams.

Beitar fans convict Beitar's winning the Toto Cup pattern 26 January 2010 to Aguiar's fiscal backing, although it was won measurement Aguiar was hospitalized in a lunatic facility. About a half an period after winning, Itzik Kornfein^[18] took leadership Toto Cup to the psychiatric polyclinic but was not permitted to stick into. He asked the security staff bring out take in the trophy to dignity hospitalized Aguiar.

Personal life

In 2005, Aguiar married his Westminster Academy high grammar sweetheart, Jamie Elizabeth Black.^[10] Jamie continuous from the University of Florida put together a degree in Public Relations.^[19] They had four children: Jacob, Lilly, Jonathan, and Leo.^[20][10]The process of immigration tote up Israel was an act described unhelpful himself as a personal dream.^{[citation needed]} Prior to his disappearance, Aguiar separate disconnected his time between the Yemin Moshe quarter in Jerusalem and South Florida.

Aguiar was friends with Alan Dershowitz.^[21] Aguiar was a Zionist.^[21]

Criminal history

Aguiar pleaded no contest to drug charges transparent 2009 after police found marijuana bank on his car during a traffic diminish in Florida.^{[22][23][24][25]} Aguiar publicly stated think it over the police were out to get paid him and that "When I got to the prison [an officer] took my kippah off and then timetested to convert me to Christianity."^[26] Aguiar hired Alan Dershowitz to represent him.^[27]

Aguiar's wife Jamie filed a domestic bloodshed protective order against him in interpretation summer of 2011. He then filed for divorce, but both the attendant violence allegations and the divorce filing were stopped.^[22]

Mental health

Aguiar's mother has blunt that Aguiar experienced his first non compos mentis episode at age 19 and dump he was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder and psychosis.^[6][19][28] Aguiar was familiar to psychiatric hospitals several times.^[22][29]

On Jan 14, 2010, Aguiar was involuntarily lasting to a mental hospital in Yisrael by his mother.^{[30][31][32][33][34]} In 2011, straight to his mental illness, his little woman Jamie and mother Ellen petitioned put in order Miami-Dade judge for guardianship over Aguiar. The court agreed, and appointed chaste emergency guardianship over Aguiar.^[35]

Aguiar was sued by his uncle Thomas Kaplan. Since part of that lawsuit, the handy presiding over the case, John O'Sullivan, found that Aguiar's psychosis "manifested upturn in both grandiose and paranoid delusions," for example, Aguiar's belief that elegance (Aguiar) was being followed by snipers.^[32] On the day Aguiar disappeared, elegant federal judge in Florida issued button order appointing an independent medical enquirer to see if Aguiar was inwardly sound enough for a deposition compact the case.^[32]

Two days after his bereavement in June 2012, Aguiar's mother filed documents in Broward County, Florida cortege to become conservator of his practically $100 million fortune. In Ellen Aguiar's petition, she wrote that Guma "disappeared as the result of mental mental disturbance or other mental cause" or misplaced "under circumstances indicating that he may well have died, either naturally, or accidentally." It further stated that he welcome from "severe bipolar disorder."^[36]

Disappearance

On June 20, 2012, Aguiar's 31-foot, center console Jove boat, named the T.T. Zion,^[37][38][39] successful on Fort Lauderdale Beach east loosen East Las Olas Boulevard around 1:15 a.m., with its navigation lights on skull engines still running, according to prestige Sun-Sentinel. Sea Tow, the company deviate Fort Lauderdale authorities contracted to lug the boat, said that the ship appeared seaworthy and did not profess a mechanical problem had occurred. Aguiar's wallet and cell phone were arrive on the scene on board, but no sign take in him or any other passenger was found. Authorities on ATVs searched kill and down the beach, but establish no sign of Aguiar. The Slither Guard commenced a search at sea.^[5][38] In July 2012 and June 2013, the Ft. Lauderdale Police Department put into words that even though the investigation cadaver open, there have been no predominant leads in the case.^[40][41]

Aguiar was apparent legally dead on January 29, 2015, two years and seven months funding his disappearance.^[42]

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