Georgetown U.......................a Kennedy house..............McClean, VA..........like Evelyn Walsh McClean.............the Washingtonian who owned the Hope diamond...............u do the math..........

Personal background[edit]

Theodore John Leonsis was born on January 8, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Greek American parents,^[7] who worked as a waiter and a secretary.^[8] He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, before moving to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Lowell High School in 1973.^[9] In 2005, he was honored as one of Lowell High School's Distinguished Alumni for reaching the highest level of accomplishment and possessing the highest standards of integrity and character.^{[citation needed]} After graduating from Georgetown University in 1977,^[10] he moved back to his parents' home in Lowell and began working for Wang Laboratories.^[9]

In early 2011, Leonsis purchased a 13-acre estate in Potomac, Maryland. He acquired the property for $20 million after selling homes in McLean, Virginia and Vero Beach, Florida.^[1] The 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m²) estate was once the home of Joseph P. Kennedy,^[11] summer home of Franklin Roosevelt,^[12] and was owned by the Gore family from 1942 to 1995.^[13] Leonsis purchased the home from Chris Rogers, a telecommunications executive^[14] who acquired Leonsis' home in McLean.