Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 650 Fifth Avenue (earlier known as the Piaget Building) is a 36-story 150 m (490 ft) building on the edge of Rockefeller Center on 52nd Street in New York City.The building was designed by John Carl Warnecke & Associates for the Pahlavi Foundation, a nonprofit organization run by the then-Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, “to pursue Iran’s charitable interests in the U.S.”. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran sought to take control of the Shah’s property, including the assets of the Pahlavi Foundation, which was renamed the Alavi Foundation.Juicy Couture has its flagship store in the building. Two of the tenants who leased space at 650 Fifth Avenue included Ivan F. Boesky, the infamous “greed-is-good” Wall Street speculator who was convicted of insider trading in 1987. And the Marc Rich & Company, Pahlavi, from Marc Rich, the billionaire oil trader. His invention of the spot oil market which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally. Marc Rich fled to Zug, Switzerland while under indictment on charges of fraud and illegal trading with Iran, among other charges and died 2013. Most recently, Joe Biden's brother James Biden, and also his son, Hunter Biden, have been conducting business out of the 17th floor of the building.. }
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- 650_Fifth_Avenue abstract "650 Fifth Avenue (earlier known as the Piaget Building) is a 36-story 150 m (490 ft) building on the edge of Rockefeller Center on 52nd Street in New York City.The building was designed by John Carl Warnecke & Associates for the Pahlavi Foundation, a nonprofit organization run by the then-Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, “to pursue Iran’s charitable interests in the U.S.”. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran sought to take control of the Shah’s property, including the assets of the Pahlavi Foundation, which was renamed the Alavi Foundation.Juicy Couture has its flagship store in the building. Two of the tenants who leased space at 650 Fifth Avenue included Ivan F. Boesky, the infamous “greed-is-good” Wall Street speculator who was convicted of insider trading in 1987. And the Marc Rich & Company, Pahlavi, from Marc Rich, the billionaire oil trader. His invention of the spot oil market which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally. Marc Rich fled to Zug, Switzerland while under indictment on charges of fraud and illegal trading with Iran, among other charges and died 2013. Most recently, Joe Biden's brother James Biden, and also his son, Hunter Biden, have been conducting business out of the 17th floor of the building.".