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OTHER ASSETS AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER LIABILITIES | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
OTHER ASSETS AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER LIABILITIES | 11. OTHER ASSETS AND ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER LIABILITIES Other Assets consists of the following:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Furniture, Equipment and Leasehold Improvements |  | $ | 325,700 |  |  | $ | 300,105 |
Less: Accumulated Depreciation |  |  | (188,612 | ) |  |  | (157,715 | )
Furniture, Equipment and Leasehold Improvements, Net |  |  | 137,088 |  |  |  | 142,390 |
Prepaid Expenses |  |  | 61,226 |  |  |  | 81,498 |
Other Assets |  |  | 75,815 |  |  |  | 97,140 |
Freestanding Derivatives |  |  | 10,343 |  |  |  | 55,344 |
|  | $ | 284,472 |  |  | $ | 376,372 |
Depreciation expense of $33.6 million, $34.0 million and $31.6 million related to furniture, equipment and leasehold improvements for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively, is included in General, Administrative and Other in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations. Accounts Payable, Accrued Expenses and Other Liabilities includes $57.0 million and $170.4 million as of December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively, relating to redemptions that were legally payable to investors as of the balance sheet dates and $229.1 million and $352.3 million of payables relating to unsettled purchases within Blackstone’s consolidated funds, respectively.

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