Slain Blackstone Executive Was a Mentor to Women and a Leader at Work
Ms. LePatner, one of her company's top-ranking women, possessed a stellar résumé: She was chief executive of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust and had spent more than a decade at Goldman Sachs before joining Blackstone in 2014. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University. She was committed to Blackstone, one friend said, and traveled often and worked hard, but also prioritized spending time with her husband and two children.
On its social media accounts, Blackstone promoted Ms. LePatner as a role model for women, a position she embraced in the male-dominated industry, her friends said. She spoke on panels that focused on women in the industry, offering guidance.
'The goal is for you to embrace change,' she told a crowd at a symposium for women in real estate last fall, according to one real estate publication.
Ms. LePatner was married to Evan LePatner, and the couple had a teenage daughter and a son who is in the seventh grade at a Jewish day school in Manhattan, where Ms. LePatner was on the board.
'She was a uniquely brilliant and modest leader and parent, filled with wisdom, empathy, vision and appreciation,' read a letter sent on Tuesday to parents whose children attend the school.
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