The smart heir of Walmart Group has become the richest woman in the world. Behind the billions hides anti-formist benefactor, passionate art, riding and public health.
It weighs $ 107.5 billion. This is equivalent to almost 117,000 gold cubs to get an idea. It is also $ 107.5 billion than Slovakia, Croatia or Kenya’s annual GDP in such countries. This Pharaonic Empire, Alice Walton, owes it to Walmart, the world’s largest distribution group. He, created by his father Sam Walton in 1962. In September 2024, at the age of 74, the American was thus killed French French vegetables and became the richest woman in the world. Then ForbsusHe ranks 13th today in the world rankings of billionaires, Alon Mushki, Bernard Arnoyan and Jeff Bezos, to call some.
However, Alice Walton’s face is not known to the public. Believe that the lights of the focus will be almost placed. “He is the one who seems to me the most, but even more unpredictable from me,” said the father, as reported. Forbsus A number of rare reception, which speaks of who, without a ruling role in the Family Empire, was able to draw a unique trajectory. Away from a business shock.
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Passionate
He was born in 1949. On October 7, in Newport, Arkansas, Alice Louise Walton grew up in Bentonville, which is surrounded by her three brothers Jim, John. Graduate of the University of San Antonio, Graduate, he starts Walmart as a buyer of the “Children’s” department before the financing branch. In 1988 he founded his investment bank, Llama, which he acts for ten years. But its real ambition is placed elsewhere.
She is only 10 years old when she offers her reproduction Blue nude De Picasso, bought … 25 cents. Thus was born his thunderstorm for art. From then on, he imported waterproof with his mother. Art becomes a passion. Then, with a thread needle, a profession. He collects homer, hops, O’kefe, Rothko, Willay … and 2005 spends no less than $ 35 million Good spirits (1849) Asher by Brown Durand. At one time, it was outrage, and the press was unleashed. World A number
Museum and Farm
But the collector doesn’t care. In 2011, he offered the American museum an unique museum. The American Museum of Crystal Bridges, which was installed in the Arkansas forest 120 hectares, owned by his family, Moshe Safdi’s work. Admission is free. Purpose. Make art available to everyone. The instructed sponsors’ bets, which will spread the Art Bridges Foundation, which at the intersection of the United States with a tour exhibitions for sub-legumes. So many projects that sometimes earn him with Abby Roquefeller (1874-1948), oil magnet’s bride, which, in particular, founded the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1929.
But art is not great passionate about the rich heir, never married and without children. The 1,300-hectare farm, where he increases horses, is a shelter for a long time in sorting horses. There he is recognized for his FLAIR to find an exceptional foam. However, the theater in 2015 Especially since Alice Walton’s benevolence does not know any break or border.
Charity and public health
Through its founding, he supports artistic education, health, food in school canteens, but also the fight against food insecurity. His most ambitious project must come yet. At the opening, in 2025 Alice L. Walton Medicine School. Taking back at the Museum of Crystal Bridges, this school intends to train hardware doctors according to the health approach to health. Doesn’t he say that “succeeding in this world, you must constantly reconsider again?” In any case, it is embodied proof.
Even his political obligations avoid prejudice ideas. Until the Republican Until 2012, when Hillary Clinton was presented to her in 2008 and 2016, it supported $ 353,400, and then it is definitely branched into the Democrats. Alice Walton chooses its reasons, not her camps. Always at a flawless discretion.
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Source: Le Figaro
