Rank #1987
Wilma Tisch
Net worth $2.1B
Loews · United States
- Born
- Jun 25, 1927
- Age
- 98
- Source
- Loews
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Skidmore College
Net worth over time
Biography
- Wilma Tisch owes her fortune to her late husband Laurence (d. 2003) and his brother Bob, who started Loews Corp as a New Jersey hotel venture in 1946.
- Wilma's son James is the president and CEO of publicly traded Loews, which now has interests in drilling, natural gas pipelines and insurance.
- Her sister-in law Joan Tisch, also a billionaire, died in 2017; Wilma's son Andrew co-chairs Loews' board with Joan's son Jonathan.
- At NYU, the Tisch family donated funds to support the Tisch School of the Arts and the Tisch Hospital at Langone Medical Center.
- Wilma donates some of her Loews shares annually to her three children's charitable foundations.
- Tisch was the first woman to be elected president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York.
- Tisch is an honorary board member of WNYC Radio and holds an honorary doctorate from NYU.
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