After trashing Nancy Walton Laurie’s $300 million superyacht Kaos, two environmental protestors were taken into custody. Nancy is the niece of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart. Sam has one daughter, Alice Walton, first cousin of Nancy Laurie.
Who is Alice Walton?
Alice Louise Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, is an American heiress to the Walmart fortune. She had Walmart stock worth over US$11 billion in September 2016.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Walton had a net worth of $59 billion as of October 2022, ranking her as the 19th richest person and the second richest woman in the world. Forbes estimated her wealth to be $56.7 billion in the spring of 2023, elevating her to third place in the list of the richest women.
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In 1974, at the age of 24, Walton wed a well-known investment banker from Louisiana. After two and a half years, they got divorced. She soon wed the “contractor who built her swimming pool,” according to Forbes, “but they, too, divorced quickly.”
Walton has been a part of numerous car accidents. During a 1983 Thanksgiving family reunion near Acapulco, she lost control of a rented Jeep and slid into a ravine, breaking her leg. She had more than two dozen surgery after being taken out of Mexico and claimed to still experience discomfort from her wounds.
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She struck and killed Oleta Hardin, 50, who was walking on a road in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in April 1989. She also struck a petrol meter in 1998 while driving while intoxicated. A $925 fee was levied on her.
Walton relocated to Walton’s Rocking W Ranch in Millsap, Texas, in 1998. She was a passionate horse lover. She was widely known for having a knack for spotting which 2-month-olds would develop into champion cutters.
In 2015, Walton moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and put the farm up for sale, claiming the desire to concentrate on the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In 2020, she relocated back to Bentonville.
