Interesting Facts

In 1987, Hoffenberg met Jeffrey Epstein through a British defense contractor named Douglas Leese.

Leese was involved in the billion dollar Al-Yamamah arms deal, Britain's biggest arms deal

Steven Hoffenberg owned the New York Post from January to March 1993.

Twin Towers were bombed on Friday, Feb. 26, 1993

In 1975, an agreement was reached with Edper that would leave Eagle Star with a controlling interest in Trizec, while effective control would move to a new Brofman-controlled holding company, Carena Properties. By 1976, the Bronfmans took control of Trizec and moved the head office to Calgary. By 1979, Trizec's assets surpassed $1 billion in value.

Epstein's career began when he started working as a physics and mathematics teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan in 1974. He transitioned to finance in 1976, joining Bear Stearns, where he worked with wealthy clients.

1968, Edper offered Cockwell a job, which Cockwell accepted while he was in South Africa for the Christmas holidays. Cockwell has been married four times. In 1966 he married his first wife, who had come with him from South Africa to Canada. The marriage ended in divorce. He married secondly to Norma Gail Harding, a Montreal native who was Paul Lowenstein's secretary at Edper. They divorced in the mid 1980s. During his divorce from Norma, Cockwell began dating Wendy Marion Cecil, who was a vice-president at Edper. In August 1986 they had a daughter together, then married in 1987, and later had two sons. Both of Cockwell's sons, Malcolm and Gareth, work in the forestry industry. Cockwell and Cecil divorced in 2000. From 2010 to 2017, Cecil served as chancellor of Victoria University. In 2001, Cockwell married Lynda Hamilton, the third wife and widow of Peter Bronfman.