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Accrued Performance Fees - Additional Information (Details) $ in Millions | 3 Months Ended |
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Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($) fund | Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($) | Dec. 31, 2016 fund
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Percentage of accrued performance fees related to certain Corporate Private Equity funds | 19.00% |  | 27.00%
Number of Partnership's Corporate Private Equity funds related to accrued performance fees | fund | 1 |  | 2
Performance fees | $ 681.6 | $ 145.2 |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Percentage of performance fees related to certain Corporate Private Equity funds | 79.00% | 92.00% |
Performance fees | $ 537.5 | $ 133.1 |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Carlyle Partners V, L.P. |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Performance fees | 184.6 | 73.5 |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Carlyle Partners VI, L.P. |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Performance fees | 253.6 |  |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Carlyle Asia Partners IV, L.P. |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Performance fees | $ 165.1 |  |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Carlyle Asia Partners III, L.P. |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Performance fees |  | (15.3) |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Carlyle Realty Partners V, L.P. |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Performance fees |  | 51.9 |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Carlyle Realty Partners VI, L.P. |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Performance fees |  | 19.6 |
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] | Customer Concentration Risk [Member] | Carlyle Realty Partners VII, L.P. |  |  |
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items] |  |  |
Performance fees |  | $ 36.3 |

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