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Apollo's Black again plays a foil for Icahn

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Leon_Black.jpgDespite activist investor, blogger and amateur comedian Carl Icahn's lawsuit against Apollo Management LP-backed real estate brokerage Realogy Corp., which does business as Century 21, Coldwell Banker and Corcoran, over its debt exchange offer, there is no love lost between Icahn and Apollo's founder Leon Black (pictured), who both go back about 25 years when Black was a young banker at Drexel Burnham & Lambert. Icahn made light of their history in one of his amateur comedy routines at Caroline's a few years ago. Watch the video after the break. - Matthew Wurtzel

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