Rank #150
Nancy Walton Laurie
Net worth $18.6B
Walmart · United States
- Born
- May 15, 1951
- Age
- 75
- Source
- Walmart
- Residence
- Henderson, Nevada
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Memphis
Net worth over time
Biography
- Nancy Walton Laurie inherited a stake in Walmart from her father, Bud Walton, who helped his brother, Sam, build the retail giant.
- When Bud died in 1995, Walton Laurie and her sister, Ann Walton Kroenke, received enough Walmart stock to make them both billionaires.
- Walton Laurie and her husband, Bill, also own a portfolio of commercial real estate, several homes and a yacht.
- They gave $10 million in 2013 to the University of Memphis, their alma mater.
- Walton Laurie became interested in dance when her daughter was a teenager and sat on the board of trustees at Julliard.
- In 1998, Walton Laurie founded the Columbia Performing Arts Centre, a performing arts school for children through high school in Columbia, Missouri.
- Walton Laurie and her husband purchased the NHL's St. Louis Blues in 1999. They sold the team six years later.
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