Alice Walton Alice Louise Walton (born October 7, 1949) is the daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and Helen Walton, and sister of S. Robson Walton, John T. Walton, and Jim Walton. She and her mother each have an estimated net worth of about $18.0 billion.
She is a graduate of Trinity University and lives in Mineral Wells, Texas on The Rocking W Ranch. She was the 20th largest individual contributor to 527 committees in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, donating $2.6 million to the right-wing Progress for America group.[1] Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton's only daughter, Alice chose not to get involved in the operations of the family business. For a time she was a broker for E.F. Hutton. Her hobby is horses. In 1989, Alice Walton killed a 50-year-old pedestrian in an automobile accident. No charges were filed in that incident. In 1996, she was cited for driving while intoxicated and fined $925.[2] In 1995, Alice Walton purchased Asher Brown Durand's painting, Kindred Spirits, in a sealed-bid auction for a purported $35 million dollars. This painting had been in the collection of the New York Public Library since it was given to the library in 1904 by Julia Bryant, the daughter of William Cullen Bryant, the Romantic poet and New York newspaper publisher, who is one of the figures represented in the painting. source: wikipedia.org GNU Free Documentation License |
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