John Henry
$5.7B
Born
Sep 13, 1949
Age
76
Source of Wealth
Sports
Residence
Boca Raton, Florida
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
- 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.
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