Benedict I. Lubell (1909 – December 13, 1996) was an American oil executive and philanthropist.
[1][2] Lubell was born to a Jewish family[3] on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
[1] His father Samuel L. Lubell founded the Bell Oil and Gas Company, an independent oil refiner in Tulsa, Oklahoma[1] and Lubell Brothers, a shirt manufacturer in New York City.
[4] He had two sisters: art dealer Grace Borgenicht Brandt (formerly married to Jack Borgenicht) and Shirley Black Kash (formerly married to Eli M.
[2] In 1939, he married Norma Rubenstein (died 1994),[1][6] daughter of New York textile executive Jacob A.