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Lee Adrien Lescaze (December 8, 1938 – July 26, 1996) was an American journalist from Manhattan. After attending Harvard University, he worked as an editor successively at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. During his Washington D.C., assignment, the FBI rented his Georgetown house as a safe house in the ABSCAM sting operation.

Lee Lescaze was the son of the famous early American modernist architect William Lescaze (1896–1969).

Lescaze had three children from his first marriage: daughters Alexandra and Miranda, and son Adrien, who died in 1989 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. In 1986, he married American author and journalist Lynn Darling. The couple had one daughter, Zoe Eliza Lescaze.

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1. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936–2007
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3. Osnos, Peter (June 2, 2007). "Two Lives Entwined: Love and Its Costs". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
4. Lescaze, Lee (February 4, 1980). "Scamlord". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
5. "William Lescaze, architect, 72, dies". New York Times. 10 February 1969. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
6. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/07/28/ex-post-foreign-editor-lee-a-lescaze-dies/39615771-d64c-4390-9c50-5670ca801586/
7. "Lynn Darling, Writer, Wed To Lee A. Lescaze, Editor". The New York Times. 1986-01-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
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9. Smith, Neil (2014-01-17). "Lessons of the Woods: A New York Writer Moves to Woodstock to Find Her Way". Valley News. Retrieved 2023-12-28.

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