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Last Updated Sep 1, 2011, 12:00am EDT

IMG chairman was diagnosed with brain cancer in early 2011, just months after finding himself at the center of a betting scandal sparked by a lawsuit that accused him of betting on clients including Roger Federer and NCAA football. Forstmann admitted to having gambled in the past but denied the charges in the lawsuit. Meanwhile, he faces a grim prognosis with the same type of tumor that felled Sen. Edward Kennedy. Forstmann vowed to fight and build IMG, telling a New York Times interviewer in May that he refused to be remembered for his illness:"He did this, he did that, and he died of brain ca... Read More
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sports management, Self Made
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Doctor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University; Bachelor of Arts / Science, Yale University

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