Apollo Global’s Black Unmasked as “The Scream” Buyer

What do private equity titans do when they’re not out buying up companies or running for president?

They’re apparently buying priceless works of art. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal outted Leon Black as the unnamed buyer of “The Scream.”

Black, Apollo Global’s chairman and CEO, paid $120 million for the Edvard Munch’s 1895 painting, the WSJ says.

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