Lewis Katz, Who Co-Owned Nets, Devils, Inquirer, Dies at 72

Lewis Katz, a parking, billboard and sports mogul who through the years owned the New Jersey Nets basketball team, New Jersey Devils hockey team and, most recently, the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper, has died. He was 72.

Katz was killed on May 31 with six other people in a private jet crash in Bedford, Massachusetts, his son, Drew Katz, said in a statement. Lewis Katz and H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest won control of the Inquirer and its sister publication at a court-ordered auction four days earlier.