H. Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen is an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.

Biography

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Allen is a partner with his cousin Peter M. Brant in the privately owned newsprint company, Brant-Allen Industries, Inc, co-founded by their fathers. Allen served as vice chairman and president of the company.
For a number of years Joseph Allen has been involved in Thoroughbred racing and with Peter Brant, owned Just [A Game II|Just A Game], winner of the 1980 Eclipse Award for American Champion Female [Turf Horse]. The Grade 1 Just A [Game Stakes] at Belmont Park is run in her honor.

Personal life

In the early 1970s, at the age of 29, Allen married 19 year old Barbara Tanner. He bought her a 25 percent stake of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. He later married and divorced Rhonda Roland Shearer.