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Turi Josefsen (born 1936 in HammerfestNorway)is a Norwegian-American businesswoman. She was Vice-President of United States Surgical Corporation (USSC) (headed by her husband Leon C Hirsch) and CEO of the European division Auto Suture Europe. In the early 1990s she was the highest-paid woman in corporate America and at one time reportedly the world’s highest paid woman CEO.