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Cerberus

[sur-ber-uhs] / ˈsɜr bər əs /




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Three years after Jackson died, Guez and his wife sold the property to StevenMayer, a managing director at Cerberus Capital Management.

From MarketWatch May 5, 2026

Cerberus now manages roughly $70 billion in assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Warsh also received $1.55 million from GoldenTree Asset Management, $750,000 from Cerberus Capital Management, and $650,000 from Heitman LLC, all for consulting work conducted through his personal advisory firm, Vicarage LLC.

From Barron's Apr. 14, 2026

In 2021 GradImages was bought again and placed under the collegiate souvenir clearinghouse Balfour, with a new majority equity holder, New York–based PE giant Cerberus Capital Management.

From Slate May 27, 2025

Cerberus barked, but he sounded more excited than angry, like: Can I play too?

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

On the way to heaven there is but one pair that can have shaped itself reasonably in the minds of primitive observers into a pair of Cerberi.

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice

Sun and moon, the Veda declares, are the Cerberi.

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice

Was the instructing, drilling, marshalling, living, and conversing all together of these wretches, who were watched and kept under lock and key by these Cerberi, an example of the impartiality of British justice?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

With the change of the abode of the dead from inferno to heaven the two Cerberi are eo ipso also evicted.

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice

As a sop to those toothless old Cerberuses the bishops, who impotently exhibit still the passions of another age, we will accord the continuance of the prohibition which forbids a man to marry his grandmother.

From Matthew Arnold by Russell, George William Erskine

Anyhow, it gave me a wherewithal to throw sops to a whole Zooful of Cerberuses, and still keep enough to take that flat in the Carstairs' house in Berkeley Square.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Oh, good Sir, take your Cerberuses off—I do confess, the Captain here, and I have violated your Fame.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague




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