What happened to former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder after his $6.05 billion sale of the team in July 2023?

Snyder sold the team to private equity investor Josh Harris after congressional, state and NFL investigations that revealed a toxic workplace culture, sexual harassment and financial improprieties under his ownership — and he has been living a life of anonymity in London since, according to some former associates and others within the league, who spoke to Front Office Sports.

“Talk about a guy that’s gone invisible,” one former associate of Snyder told the outlet.

“He’ll never be back,” a second former Snyder associate said. “In London, they… don’t bother him. Just let him be over there.”

Snyder, who turns 62 in November, moved to London with his wife Tanya before the sale of the Commanders was completed.

He has maintained a low public profile and there is no public knowledge of him returning to pro sports ownership.

“From what I have gathered through just talking to people, the league has just totally moved on from him,” a former team staffer who worked for Snyder said. “You bring up that name, people are like, ‘What?’ Like, ‘Nah, never mind.’

“And I think he’s over there just basically living a life of anonymity. Nobody in London gives a s–t who Dan Snyder is. And it’s probably mutually beneficial. The people in London don’t care…. It’s one of those things where thank God I don’t spend much time thinking about [it]…. It’s just weird. It’s like talking about a movie sometimes…. People would be like, ‘Really?’ Yeah, believe it or not, that actually happened.”

A high-ranking official with one NFL team explained that that communication with Snyder was basically cut off after the controversy.

“I don’t think anybody is in touch with him about anything…. I don’t know who he hangs out with,” they said. “I don’t know who he talks to. Certainly nobody in the NFL is talking to him.” 

Snyder had spent more than $67 million on a home in a luxury central London development, Bloomberg reported last August, adding that the family’s 305-foot yacht, the Lady S, had traveled around the UK and parts of mainland Europe.

That Bloomberg report also stated that Snyder UK Investments had allocated to Apollo Global Management “offerings as part of its private markets bets.”

In January 2025, ESPN reported that Snyder was looking to buy into a Premier League team after selling the Commanders to Harris – who owns the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Devils.

There is no public record of Snyder purchasing a pro soccer team.

“I heard he was interested as a potential investor soon after he sold the Commanders,” the former Snyder associate said. “But I haven’t heard anything recently…. He’d still prefer to own the [Commanders].”

A second former Snyder associate added: “The only thing he’d buy back into would be European soccer.”

Forbes estimates Snyder’s net worth at $4.7 billion.

Snyder was at the center of multiple controversies since he acquired ownership of the team in 1999.