Claren Road majority owner Rubenstein shells out $2 million for copy of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Billionaire calls artifact evidence of “the most important thing any president has ever done.”

David Rubenstein, whose Carlyle Group owns 55% of the $6.2 billion distressed hedge fund Claren Road Asset Management, paid a shade more than $2 million this week for a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

“This particular document is I think the most important thing any president has ever done with the stroke of his pen.

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