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David Murdock, Dole CEO Who Opened Longevity Center, Dies at 102

David Murdock in 2006Photographer: Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg News.

David Murdock, a high school dropout who became a billionaire as proprietor of one of the biggest private corporate empires in the US, has died. He was 102.

He died on June 9, according to William Goldfield, a spokesman for Dole Food Co., which Murdock led from 1985 to 2021.