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As much as George Soros loves the limelight, Stanley Druckenmiller shuns it. A certified homebody who seldom ventures into the Wall Street social whirl, Druckenmiller, 44, has been married since 1988 to Fiona Biggs, niece of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter market guru Barton Biggs. The couple met while working at Dreyfus Corp. in the mid-1 980s and were married at the Lake Tahoe home of Jack Dreyfus, founder of the Dreyfus Corp. Devoted to his three young daughters, Druckenmiller gets home most nights by 7:00 p.m. Lights are rarely on after 9:00. But then he often arrives at Soros Fund Management's midtown Manhattan headquarters at dawn.
A rare foray into the limelight only confirmed Druckenmiller's predilection for privacy. During the federal budget standoff in the fall of 1995, Druckenmiller, who normally supports libertarian-leaning Republicans like former Massachusetts governor William Weld, hopped on the...