Rank #718
Margot Birmingham Perot
Net worth $5.8B
Computer services, real estate · United States
- Born
- Nov 15, 1933
- Age
- 92
- Source
- Computer services, real estate
- Residence
- Dallas, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Goucher College
Net worth over time
Biography
- Margot Birmingham Perot is the widow of the late technology entrepreneur and presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, Sr.
- She gave her husband a $1,000 check to start Electronic Data Systems. He sold EDS to GM in 1984, netting $1.5 billion.
- She and her family helped endow Dallas's Margot Perot Center, which has delivered more than 120,000 babies since 1983.
- The former teacher also philanthropically supports the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and the Global Fund for Children.
- Birmingham Perot met her husband on a blind date. He died in 2019 at age 89 after a battle with leukemia.
- One of her five children, H. Ross Perot Jr., is also a billionaire. Perot Jr. built a fortune in real estate.