Randy Lerner Family - Celebrity Family

Randolph “Randy” D. Lerner is probably best known as the owner of the English Premier League football club, Aston Villa. But before 2006, he was actually the owner of the National Football League’s Cleveland Browns. In 1984, he graduated from Columbia University. He also has an LLB from Columbia Law School and is a bona fide member of New York and Columbia bar association. Prior to entering the business world, he practiced his law in the courts of New York.

Lerner is extremely committed to ‘The Villains’ and actually has a Villa logo tattooed on his ankle. Not to mention the £2.5 million converted farmhouse located in Bodymoor Heath which is extremely close to the training grounds of Aston Villa Football Club.

Randy Lerner Family

Lerner’s Parents – Alfred “Al” Lerner and Norma Wolkoff

Randy’s father, Alfred “Al” Lerner purchased the Cleveland Browns in 1998 from the National Football League paying $530 million. Before that, he had a 5% stake in the Cleveland Browns franchise. His father was born to Russian immigrants and lived in Brooklyn during his childhood years. He was a pilot in the US Marines for a while before his career as a furniture salesman. He saved and saved till he earned enough money to purchase an apartment in Cleveland and in 1990, his real estate portfolio grew immensely. He was an extremely down to earth person and was majorly responsible for rebuilding the reputation of the Cleveland Browns. He, unfortunately, succumbed to his long drawn out battle with cancer at the age of 69 at the Cleveland Clinic.

Norma Lerner (nee Wolkoff) still survives her husband and is extremely close to her children and grandchildren.