Charles-Henry Kurzen, a French financial expert, fatally jumped yesterday from a luxurious Manhattan skyscraper near the United Nations while touring the apartment with a real estate agent, police sources said.
The 43-year-old man fell from a 32nd floor balcony at the 100 United Nations Plaza building in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown East yesterday around 1:15 p.m. and landed on a third-floor patio, an NYPD spokesman said.
The French businessman, who lived in Brooklyn, was touring the apartment when asked the agent to show him the balcony and “suddenly jumped” to his death, sources said.
He was a financial banker and a graduate of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) Business School and a partner at Saltbox Partners LLC. He had years of experience in the financial industry of France and New York, according to the company website. Previously, she had worked as an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Lazard Freres & Co. in Paris.
A co-worker declined to comment when contacted by New York Post, but described him as a dear friend.
Kurzen was quoted in an article in the New Yorker 2004 as an attendee of “French Tuesdays”, a group of weekly parties organized for expatriates from that country in New York City.
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