Billionaire investor Bill Ackman defends wife Neri Oxman from plagiarism accusation, implies attack is targetted

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Bill Ackman has defended his wife Neri Oxman from plagiarism accusations leveled against her regarding her Ph.D. dissertation titled 'Material-based Design Computation'. He also seemed to imply that the allegations, for which Oxman in a previous post on X (formerly known as Twitter), acknowledged and apologised for, were targetted attacks.

"You know that you struck a chord when they go after your wife, in this case, my love and partner in life," he wrote on X, adding, "I am one of the most fortunate people in the universe in large part because of Neri." He also linked Oxman's apology and explanation post on the issue. "Please see her post below about today’s Business Insider piece about her dissertation. Part of what makes her human is that she makes mistakes, owns them, and apologizes when appropriate." Ackman went on to extoll Oxman's record as a "former tenured professor at MIT, author of 74 peer-reviewed papers, eight peer-reviewed book chapters, and numerous other journal papers and proceedings".

"She has been awarded 15 patents for various innovations, and her work has been featured in 116 exhibitions around the world including two recent retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and SF MoMA. If you would like to learn more about Neri, I encourage you to watch her podcast with Lex Fridman," he wrote, adding a link to Oxman's work. Oxman in her post, acknowledged the oversight in giving proper credit as due and explained the miss was unintentional.