Rank #108
Christy Walton
Net worth $24.7B
Walmart · United States
- Born
- Feb 08, 1949
- Age
- 77
- Source
- Walmart
- Residence
- Jackson, Wyoming
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 1
- Education
- High School Graduate, High School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Christy Walton married into what is now the richest family in the world: Walmart's Walton clan.
- She inherited a stake in the retailer when her husband, John Walton, died in a 2005 plane crash.
- Christy received about one sixth of her husband's estate; her son, Lukas Walton, got about one third.
- She was one of the biggest backers of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super-PAC that ran ads in battleground states during the 2020 campaign.
- She leads a very private life in Jackson, Wyoming.
- Her son, Lukas, battled cancer as a child. She reportedly claimed that an all-organic diet eliminated his tumor.
- In 2010, she established Cuna del Mar, an investment fund that backs companies working to develop a sustainable supply of seafood.
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