Rank #497
Jeffrey Lurie
Net worth $7.6B
Philadelphia Eagles · United States
- Born
- Sep 08, 1951
- Age
- 74
- Source
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Residence
- Wynnewood, Pennsylvania
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Doctorate, Brandeis University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Clark University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jeffrey Lurie, a former professor of social policy, is the outspoken owner of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL team.
- In 1994, Lurie took out a loan to buy the Eagles for $185 million. The team is now worth more than $8 billion.
- Lurie took an executive role at General Cinema Corporation, the film company founded by his grandfather, in 1983.
- Two years later, he founded Chestnut Hill Productions, where he produced a string of mostly forgettable movies.
- Lurie has since won two Academy Awards for producing documentaries: "Inside Job," about the 2008 economic crisis, and "Inocente," about an undocumented homeless American teen.
- Lurie flipped burgers at a Massachusetts drive-in theater before becoming an adjunct assistant social-policy professor at Boston University.