Edward P. Roski

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Edward P. Roski, Jr. (born in 1938) is a real estate billionaire in Los Angeles, California. Roski was rated #524 on Forbes' 2008 list of wealthiest people as he has a net worth of approximately $2.3 billion.

He is a graduate of Loyola High School, the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and a Vietnam veteran as a United States Marine.

Currently, Roski is the CEO & chairman of Majestic Realty Co., one of country's largest national real estate development firms. His funds helped to build the Staples Center with Philip Anschutz and he is a minority owner of NBA basketball's Los Angeles Lakers and NHL hockey's Los Angeles Kings.

In March, 2006 Roski and his wife gave $23 million to the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts, which is the largest amount of money given to any art school in the United States. In recognition of this, the school was renamed the "University of Southern California Gayle Garner Roski School of Fine Arts", named after his wife, a renowned artist in the Los Angeles area.

He is a member of the USC Board of Trustees.^[1]

He unveiled a blueprint for a stadium to be built in Los Angeles, in attempts to lure a NFL team in April 2008. The stadium would be built 20 miles from downtown L.A. and would be funded without any taxpayer dollars.

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