Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Deaths of note from around the world:

Eugene Leff, 73: Reached a record settlement for New York with a chemical company accused of burying toxic waste at Love Canal, the Niagara Falls neighborhood whose contamination became a symbol of environmental disaster. Died April 12 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Philadelphia.

Richard Jenrette, 89: Founder of the first Wall Street firm to offer shares to the public and who, after selling it to the giant but ailing Equitable Life Assurance Society, presided as chief executive over the company’s revival. Died Friday of lymphoma complications at a historical home he restored in Charleston, South Carolina.

— From wire reports