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.