Harold Lipton

{{short description|American lawyer (1911–1999)}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Harold Lipton | image = Harold Lipton.png | alt = | caption = Lipton in 1965 | birth_name = Harold Arlen Lipschitz | birth_date = {{dob|1911|5|11}} | birth_place = The Bronx, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|12|30|1911|5|11}} | death_place = Palm Springs, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|Lawyer|businessman}} | years_active = | known_for = | relatives = Peggy Lipton (daughter)<br/>Rashida Jones (granddaughter)<br/> Kidada Jones (granddaughter) }}

'''Harold Arlen Lipton''' (born '''Lipschitz'''; May 18, 1911 – December 30, 1999) was an American lawyer and basketball executive. In the 1970s and 1980s, Lipton co-owned the Seattle SuperSonics, the San Diego Clippers, and the Boston Celtics with Irv Levin.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Harold A. Lipton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/161546916/?article=7402dcf6-c3f9-49a6-83a5-697843f5ff46&focus=0.51288724,0.34598053,0.6319809,0.52722293&xid=3355 |access-date=August 10, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 2, 2000 |page=42}}</ref>

==Life== Lipton was born in the Bronx, New York, to Belarusian Jewish immigrants Max Lipschitz, a hosier manufacturer from Slutsk, and Alice "Gussie" Goldfarb from Brest.<ref name="nynat">''New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794–1943''</ref>{{primary source inline|date=May 2026}}

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1934. He was general counsel and director of National General Corporation.<ref name="obit"/>

He married Rita Benson in 1941. He was the father of actress Peggy Lipton<ref>{{cite news |title=NBA Notes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/45836460/?match=1&terms=Harold%20Lipton%20celtic |access-date=August 10, 2024 |work=The Lowell Sun |date=March 24, 1977 |page=28}}</ref> and grandfather of actresses Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Branch |first1=John |title=Clippers for Sale, and the Owner Who Was Desperate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/sports/basketball/clippers-for-sale-and-the-owner-who-was-desperate.html |access-date=August 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=May 10, 2014}}</ref>

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