David Murdock
David Howard Murdock (born April 11, 1923) is an American businessman and philanthropist. After relocating to Detroit after the war, Murdock was homeless and destitute.
He worked at a gasoline station. Later he moved to Arizona and began working there in housing and then commercial real estate. When the real estate market collapsed in the 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles where he continued developing real estate opportunities, leading to a string of acquisitions. |