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2015 Forbes Billionaires List - #8 Christy Walton & Family |
Real Time Net Worth As of 3/18/15 = $40.7 Billion
2015 Billionaires Net Worth = $41.7 Billion
Co-Chair, Children's Scholarship Fund
Age = 60
Source Of Wealth = Wal-Mart
Self-Made Score = 1
Residence = Jackson, WY
Citizenship = United States
Marital Status = Widowed
Children = 1
Christy Walton is the wealthiest woman the world, a title she has held for 5 out of the past six years.
She married into what became the richest family in the world -- the Waltons -- and inherited her wealth when her husband John Walton, a former Green Beret and Vietnam war medic, died in an airplane crash in 2005.
She's the wealthiest of the Waltons thanks to an investment John made in solar panelmaker First Solar.
The bulk of her holdings are in Wal-Mart, the huge retailer founded by her father-in-law Sam Walton and his brother James in 1962.
Christy received $470 million in Wal-Mart dividends after taxes in 2014.
She leads a very private life in Jackson, Wyoming, but in 2013 had a rare bit of publicity when she was given an award by the Imagen Foundation for producing the film "Bless Me, Ultima," based on the book by Rudolfo Anaya, who is considered the father of Chicano literature.
Her son battled cancer when he was just three years old and she fought a case of pneumonia that nearly killed her, according to the Imagen Foundation.
Source: Forbes - Billionaires
