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Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Occupation(s) | Businessman: Newsprint production Racehorse owner/breeder |
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H. Joseph Allen (born July 19, 1941) is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, Allen is a partner with his cousin Peter M. Brant in the privately owned newsprint company, Brant-Allen Industries, Inc, co-founded by their fathers. [1] Allen served as vice chairman and president of the company.
For a number of years Joseph Allen has been involved in Thoroughbred racing and with Peter Brant, owned Just A Game, winner of the 1980 Eclipse Award for American Champion Female Turf Horse. [2] The Grade 1 Just A Game Stakes at Belmont Park is run in her honor. [3]
In the early 1970s, at the age of 29, Allen married 19 year old Barbara Tanner. [4] He bought her a 25 percent stake of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine . [4] He later married and divorced Rhonda Roland Shearer. [5]
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While at Finch, she met Joseph Allen, a 29-year-old newsprint entrepreneur. She was 19. They got married.