Ted Field
| Ted Field | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Frederick Woodruff Field June 1, 1953 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois |
| Residence | Beverly Hills, Los Angeles |
| Education | High school graduate, seven years of college |
| Net worth | $1.2 billion |
| Spouse(s) | Judy Field (first marriage), Barbara Field (second marriage), Susan Bari Bollman Field (third marriage) |
| Children | Danielle Field (daughter, first marriage), Chantelle Field (adopted daughter, second marriage), Brittany Elise Bollman Field, Candice Lauren Bollman Field, Chelsea Paige Bollman Field (third marriage), also Emily Field and twin boys Hunter Field, Jake Field (Lauren Tracy Tweed, mother) |
| Parent(s) | Marshall Field IV and Katherine Woodruff Field (later Fanning) |
Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field (born June 1, 1953) is an American media mogul, entrepreneur and film producer.
He is an heir to the Field family fortune. At $1.2 billion, Field is No. 236 on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people.
Field was born in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, the son of Katherine Woodruff Fanning, later editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and Marshall Field IV, who owned the Chicago Sun-Times.
After the divorce of his parents at a young age, he and his sisters followed their mother and stepfather to Anchorage, Alaska. Katherine Field and her new husband, Larry Fanning, purchased the Anchorage Daily News from founder Norman C. Brown, publishing the paper for over a decade before selling it to The McClatchy Company.
Field's Interscope Racing started off entering Danny Ongais in Formula 5000 in 1975, graduating to USAC racing and the Indianapolis 500 in Parnelli chassis. Field also funded Ongais to make occasional Formula One outings in a Penske during the 1978 season.
Field also backed the construction in 1980 of an Interscope chassis designed by Roman Slobodinskij for the Indianapolis 500. This was intended to take a turbocharged six-cylinder Porsche engine (similar to the one Ongais and Field were using in their Porsche 935) but a dispute with USAC over turbo boost meant the program was abandoned.
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