Thursday, September 19, 2013

I Wish I Made This List… But One Of Our Tribe Did

I wish that I was on this list of the top 400 richest American’s but there was one trans-person who did make the list.
Jennifer Pritzker Becomes First Transgender Billionaire
Forbes
By Brian Solomon
Sept. 16, 2013

There are 48 women on this year’s FORBES 400 list of richest Americans, but one stands out from the rest. With her listing newly switched to female, Jennifer Pritzker becomes the world’s first transgender billionaire.

Jennifer Natalya Pritzker, formally known as James, is one of 11 billionaire members of the extended Pritzker family on the FORBES list. They sold a majority stake in industrial conglomerate Marmon Holdings to Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in 2007 and continue to control publicly-listed Hyatt Hotels. The heiress has an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion.
According to Forbes
Col. Jennifer Pritzker announced in August that she would now live her life as a woman, becoming the first transgender billionaire and first Forbes 400 member to switch gender. Formerly known as James, the retired Army lieutenant colonel founded the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago in 2003, and through her Tawani Foundation works to preserve American military history. She is CEO of private wealth management firm Tawani Enterprises in Chicago.

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