A former hedge fund manager, professor, propagandist author, and scientist with a net worth $7.3 billion and the founder of the quantitative hedge fund firm known as D.E Shaw.[1] He is a philanthropist and a donor of millions of dollars to Democratic candidates and organizations such as Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and the Senate Majority PAC. [2] While calling for an end to super-PAC’s, Brock runs AB Pac that receives millions in dark money including from George Soros. He is married to Beth Kobliner, a fellow Democratic political donor.
Brock was involved in a high-profile legal dispute with his former boyfriend William Grey in 2007. In the civil lawsuit, Grey accused Brock of having taken $170,000 in possessions from their once-shared Washington townhouse. Grey threatened to go to the IRS with damaging information about Brock, Media Matters, and the organization’s donors. Brock paid Grey $850,000 to keep quiet. Brock subsequently described the payment as blackmail. Brock had to sell a home in Delaware in order to make the payment to Grey. In 2011, Brock sued Grey for more than $4 million. He demanded Grey return the $850,000 and pay over $3 million in punitive damages. The dispute was settled later that year under private terms.
