Rank #505
Marian Ilitch & family
Net worth $7.6B
Little Caesars Pizza · United States
- Born
- Jan 07, 1933
- Age
- 93
- Source
- Little Caesars Pizza
- Residence
- Bingham Farms, Michigan
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 7
- Education
- Diploma, High School; High School Graduate, High School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Marian Ilitch and her husband, Mike, who died in 2017, cofounded Little Caesars Pizza in 1959.
- Mrs. I, as she's known, owns the pizza chain, which hauls in more than $5 billion in annual systemwide sales.
- She also owns the Detroit Red Wings NHL team and MotorCity Casino Hotel; the Detroit Tigers MLB team is owned by an Ilitch family trust.
- Ilitch is helping build a $1.4 billion sports and entertainment district in Detroit that includes a new headquarters with pizza-shaped windows.
- In the early days, Ilitch had to prevent her husband, who quietly paid Rosa Parks' rent for years, from giving away free pizzas.
- Ilitch is a former Delta Airlines ticket agent.
- Ilitch met her late husband on a blind date.