operation; the remainder were in liquidation. According to a company filing, Lampert stepped down as chairman of Sears Holdings Corp on February 14, 2019. In January 2019, a group of Sears' creditors hoping to persuade a federal judge to force Sears to liquidate alleged that Lampert had orchestrated a "multiyear and multifaceted scheme" to strip away the company's assets and benefit from its decline. In May 2019, Lampert, months after purchasing the remains of Sears from the holding company, threatened not to pay out the $43 million in pension payments owed to 90,000 former Sears and Kmart employees and retirees. Personal life In 2001, Lampert married Kinga Keh, an attorney with whom he has three children. They own houses in Indian Creek Village, Florida, and Greenwich, Connecticut. The couple are active members of their local Chabad house. Lampert is the owner of the Fountainhead, an motor luxury yacht. In 2003, Lampert was kidnapped from the parking lot of his Greenwich office, but persuaded his captors to let him go after two days of captivity by promising to pay them a ransom. Lampert is a self-proclaimed supporter of free market economics and is a fan of libertarian writer Ayn Rand. References External links SHC Speaks Sears Holdings' corporate blog. SHC: Chairman's Messages to Shareholders (Previous years) 1962 births American billionaires American financiers 20th-century American Jews American investors American financial analysts Goldman Sachs people American hedge fund managers Sears Holdings people Kidnapped American people Kidnapped businesspeople Living people Businesspeople from Greenwich, Connecticut People from Roslyn, New York Stock and commodity market managers American stock traders Yale University alumni Skull and Bones Society American chairpersons of corporations Businesspeople from New York (state) 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople American retail chief executives 21st-century American Jews