Portrait of Linda Pritzker

Rank #1938

Linda Pritzker

Net worth $2.2B

Hotels, investments · United States

Born
Sep 14, 1953
Age
72
Source
Hotels, investments
Residence
Missoula, Montana
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Divorced
Children
3
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • A scion of the billionaire Pritzker family, Linda Pritzker devotes herself to Tibetan Buddhism rather than her family's enterprises.
  • She is building a spiritual retreat center in Montana dedicated to Tibetan Buddhist practice; she offers online courses and annual coastal retreats in the interim.
  • Her father Robert Pritzker and his brother Jay Pritzker built up manufacturing business Marmon Holdings and sold it to Berkshire Hathaway in 2008.
  • Pritzker goes by Lama Tsomo in her teaching and professional capacities.
  • The Pritzker family also built the Hyatt hotel empire.
  • Pritzker published a Westerner's guide to Tibetan Buddhist meditation that included an introductory letter from H.H. Dalai Lama.
  • Pritzker was one of the first American women to be ordained as a Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.