Victor Kermit Kiam II (December 7, 1926 – May 27, 2001) was an American entrepreneur and TV spokesman for Remington Products, and the owner of the New England Patriots football team from 1988–1991.
[2] He was educated by his maternal grandfather at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of future U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush.
[3] After serving in the U.S. Navy and attending Yale, the Sorbonne, and Harvard Business School, Kiam worked for Lever Brothers and Playtex as a salesman.
[4] He made a fortune as the President and CEO of Remington Products, which he famously purchased in 1979 after his wife bought him his first electric shaver.
In 1990, Lisa Olson, a Boston Herald reporter, sued Kiam and the Patriots when Zeke Mowatt allegedly exposed himself and made lewd comments to her in the team change room.
[15] He was survived by his wife, Ellen, and three children, Lisa Lyons Durkin,[14] Victor "Tory" Kiam III,[16] and Robin Kiam Aviv (married to Jonathan E. Aviv),[17] and seven grandchildren, Jenny, Alexander, Sophia, Lia, Caleigh, Nikki, and Blake.