WASHINGTON — David Ru- benstein, a billionaire Maryland philanthropist, will donate $7.5 million to help fix the shuttered, earthquake-damaged Washington Monument, government officials plan to announce today.
The gift comes a month after he donated $4.5 million to the National Zoo’s cash-strapped giant-panda program and seven months after a $13.5 million gift to the National Archives.
Rubenstein, 62, is co-founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group, a global asset-management firm that handles $148 billion in assets, according to its website. He is also a member of the board of regents at the Smithsonian and chairman of Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he is the largest donor in its history, with gifts totaling $25 million. Forbes magazine estimates his net worth at $2.7 billion.
Denver Post wire services
