American journalist (1938–1996)
Lee Adrien Lescaze (December 8, 1938 – July 26, 1996)[ 1] was an American journalist from Manhattan . After attending Harvard University , he worked as an editor successively at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal .[ 2] [ 3] During his Washington D.C. , assignment, the FBI rented his Georgetown house as a safe house in the ABSCAM sting operation.[ 4]
Lee Lescaze was the son of the famous early American modernist architect William Lescaze (1896–1969).[ 5]
Lescaze had three children from his first marriage: daughters Alexandra and Miranda, and son Adrien, who died in 1989 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. [ 6] In 1986, he married American author and journalist Lynn Darling .[ 7] [ 8] The couple had one daughter, Zoe Eliza Lescaze.[ 9]
^ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007
^ "Lee Lescaze, Editor And a Reporter, 57" . The New York Times . July 28, 1996. Retrieved 21 January 2014 .
^ Osnos, Peter (June 2, 2007). "Two Lives Entwined: Love and Its Costs" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 21 January 2014 .
^ Lescaze, Lee (February 4, 1980). "Scamlord" . The Washington Post . Retrieved August 9, 2014 .
^ "William Lescaze, architect, 72, dies" . New York Times . 10 February 1969. Retrieved 13 February 2019 .
^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/07/28/ex-post-foreign-editor-lee-a-lescaze-dies/39615771-d64c-4390-9c50-5670ca801586/
^ "Lynn Darling, Writer, Wed To Lee A. Lescaze, Editor" . The New York Times . 1986-01-19. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-12-28 .
^ "Lee Lescaze, Editor And a Reporter, 57" . The New York Times . 1996-07-28. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-01-01 .
^ Smith, Neil (2014-01-17). "Lessons of the Woods: A New York Writer Moves to Woodstock to Find Her Way" . Valley News . Retrieved 2023-12-28 .