Lee Lescaze
American journalist (1938–1996)
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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]
