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NYC professor and Wall Street widow donates $1 billion to Bronx medical school so that all students have free tuition
The widow of a prominent Wall Street investor has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school for tuition for all future students. The gift from Ruth Gottesman, 93, is the largest-ever to a US medical university, and comes from the fortune left behind by her late husband, David 'Sandy' Gottesman. A protégé of Warren Buffet, Sandy passed away aged 96 in late 2022, leaving behind a hefty stock portfolio filled with shares of Buffet's hallowed Berkshire Hathaway, each valued at $618,080. His only instructions to his wife of 72 years of what to do with it? 'Do whatever you think is right,' his will said. Dr. ... (full story)