Wallis Annenberg
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Annenberg in 1981
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Wallis Huberta Annenberg July 15, 1939 Philadelphia |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Philanthropist President and Chairman of The Annenberg Foundation |
| Spouse(s) | Seth Weingarten (divorced) |
| Children | Lauren Bon Roger Weingarten Gregory Weingarten Charles Weingarten |
| Parent(s) |
Walter Hubert Annenberg Veronica Dunkelman |
Wallis Huberta Annenberg (born July 15, 1939) is an American philanthropist and heiress. Annenberg serves as President and Chairman of the Board of The Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar philanthropic organization in the United States.
Wallis Annenberg was born on July 15, 1939 in Philadelphia, the daughter of publishing magnate, Walter Hubert Annenberg, and his first wife, Bernice Veronica Dunkelman (known as Ronny), a socialite from a Toronto, Canada, family. Her family was Jewish. Her father owned a 15-acre (61,000 m2) estate called Inwood, where Wallis was raised. When she was ten years old, her parents divorced and her mother moved to Washington, D.C. to marry Ben Ourisman, a Chevrolet car dealer. Meanwhile, her father remarried in the year after the divorce to Leonore "Lee" Cohn, the niece of Columbia Pictures' President, Harry Cohn.
She graduated from Pine Manor College in 1959 when it was a junior college.
She had a brother, Roger, who committed suicide at a psychiatric institution in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at age 22 in 1962 while on leave from Harvard University for treatment of schizophrenia. She named one of her sons after her brother.
While in Venice, she met Seth Weingarten who had just completed his undergraduate education at Princeton University and was looking forward to Yale Medical School. They quickly fell in love and, after only one year of studies at Columbia, Annenberg dropped out of school and married Weingarten. They moved around the country, following her husband's career, and having four children in the process: Lauren (born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1961), Roger (who was named after Wallis's deceased brother), Gregory (born in New York City during Weingarten's residency at New York Hospital), and Charles (born in Roswell, New Mexico where Weingarten was serving as a medical officer at Walker Air Force Base). Weingarten eventually accepted a position at UCLA (at the hospital now known as Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center) and they established a permanent home.
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