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J.P. Morgan and Larry Silverstein share a striking parallel in how they were tied to major properties that later met catastrophic ends, yet both happened to be absent on the...

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Morgan, the powerful financier behind much of early 20th-century American industry, controlled the White Star Line through his International Mercantile Marine Company.

Though he had planned to sail on the Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912, he canceled last-minute, citing health reasons. When the supposedly unsinkable ship went down after striking an iceberg, it became one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history. Morgan’s company received a substantial insurance payout for the ship-reportedly around $9.4 million at the time (roughly $275 million today), one of the largest ever paid for a single vessel.

Larry Silverstein, a New York real estate mogul, had only just secured a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center complex in July 2001, about six weeks before the September 11 attacks. On the morning of the attacks, he too was notably absent from his usual office in the North Tower, reportedly staying home for a dermatologist appointment.

After the destruction of the Twin Towers, Silverstein filed insurance claims arguing that the two plane impacts constituted two separate events. He ultimately won approximately $4.6 billion in insurance settlements-then the largest insurance payout in U.S. history-intended for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site.

Both men were financially connected to iconic structures that suffered total destruction and, in the aftermath, received historic insurance compensations. Their well-timed absences on the days of these respective disasters and the scale of the payouts have been noted by historians and analysts alike.

Without making assumptions about intent, the similarities point to a larger pattern of high finance, disaster, and the immense value of risk management at elite levels of property ownership.

May be an image of 2 people and text that says 'Owner of the TITANIC JP MORGAN Owner of the TWIN TOWERS SILVERSTEIN JP MORGAN, LAST MINUTE, DID NOT BOARD HIS ΑΝΙΣ. LARRY SILVERSTEIN LAST MINUTE, DID NOT GO TO HIS TWIN TOWERS OFFC. ON 9-11. BOTH MEN RECEIVED THE LARGEST INSURANCE PAY- OUTS IN ALL HISTORY.'

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