The owner of The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest and a number of other magazines Samuel Irving Newhouse, known as Sea Newhouse, died at the age of 89.
Newhouse died in his house, his spokesman said, without clarifying the causes of death.
Si Newhouse and his brother Donald inherited the publishing business from their father and, as the New York Times notes, turned it into one of the largest privately owned companies in the US. In 2016, Forbes magazine estimated the state of Sea Newhouse at $ 13 billion.
In the area of ​​responsibility of Donald Newhouse in the family business included newspapers and television channels, and Si Newhouse engaged in glossy magazines.
It's C Newhouse, writes in the obituary of The New York Times, largely shaped the modern view of glossy magazines and made them an integral part of the cultural context.
Si Newhouse for several decades served as president of the publishing house Condé Nast. Under the leadership of Newhouse this ID, known primarily as the publisher of Vogue, acquired The New Yorker (in 1985) and restarted in 1983 the Vanity Fair, which did not go out since 1936.
Si Newhouse was also known as a philanthropist and collector of contemporary art.