Steve Scharzman, 77, lashed out at Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves over the country's arcane and long-winded planning laws. : Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, one of the titans of Wall Street, may finally have met his match in the tiniest of creatures: the English great-crested newt. The private equity boss has been trying to revamp a $100 million, 2,500-acre country estate he snapped up in Wiltshire, southern England, in 2022.