Rank #730
John Henry
Net worth $5.7B
Sports · United States
- Born
- Sep 13, 1949
- Age
- 76
- Source
- Sports
- Residence
- Boca Raton, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- After acquiring a fortune in the early 1980s from his trading firm J.W. Henry & Co., John Henry started building a sports empire.
- Henry and his partner Tom Werner bought the Boston Red Sox in 2002 for $380 million and delivered the Sox their first World Series win in 86 years in 2004.
- Their Fenway Sports Group owns majority stakes in New England Sports Network and Nascar's Roush Fenway Racing.
- Henry also has a stake in Premier League soccer team Liverpool, which won the Champions League in 2019.
- He bought the Boston Globe in 2013 for $70 million and in 2017 moved the 145-year-old newspaper back to downtown Boston where it was first founded.
- His Fenway Sports Group bought a majority stake in the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins in a 2021 deal that valued the team at $900 million.
- His wife, Linda Pizzuti Henry, is the CEO of both the Boston Globe newspaper and online healthcare publication Stat News.