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Russ DeLeon

American businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7381122 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Russell DeLeon is an investor in real estate, technology, media and the arts.

DeLeon is a graduate of UC Berkeley and holds a J. D. from Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Bar in California in December 1992.

DeLeon joined PartyGaming in August 2001, when the group was launching PartyPoker.com. He was involved in senior management of PartyGaming, including through its June 2005 IPO on the London Stock Exchange until his departure in 2006.

He is married to Dr Kimberley Yoshimi DeLeon.

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“Russ DeLeon” enters the record as american businessman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Russ, DeLeon and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2001, 2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Russ, DeLeon and American.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7381122. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2001, 2005 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Russ DeLeon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.