Herbert Allen Jr. is the son of Kathleen and Herbert A. Allen Sr. His father was a high school drop out and stock trader who joined[1] in 1927 an investment firm founded in 1922 by his older brother Charles, Allen & Company.[2] Allen & Company specialized in corporate buyouts.[1][3] A third brother Harold joined soon after.[4] Allen Jr. has one sister, Susan Allen.[1] His mother was an IrishCatholic and his father - although the son of a Jewish mother - was a non-practicing Unitarian.[5]
Allen has been married and divorced three times. His first wife was Laura Parrish;[7] they have four children: Herbert Allen III is married to Monica de la Torre, a public-interest lawyer and native of Puerto Rico;[7] Charles Allen works at Allen & Co. as an institutional salesman[7] and in 2005, married Kristin Wheat Fisher in a Methodist ceremony;[9] Leslie Allen; and Christie Allen.[7] His second wife was Broadway dancer Ann Reinking,[7] whom he married in 1982 and divorced in 1989. After 1989 he married and has since divorced Gail Holmes. He resides in Cody, Wyoming.[10]
^ abNew Yorker Magazine: "THE CONSIGLIERE - There are big decisions yet to be made in the MCA-Seagram deal, and they may all involve Herbert Allen" BY KEN AULETTA MAY 22, 1995 |"Herbert spent a good part of his childhood in the leafy Westchester suburb of Irvington. His father's mother "was Jewish--we think," Allen says. His father became a nonpracticing Unitarian--an agnostic, that is. Herbert's mother was an Irish Catholic, and she had her daughter and her son baptized in the church, but, like his father, Herbert abhorred the structure and the discipline of formal religion. "It's like digging potatoes," he says. "You can do it one day and then you get the idea."
