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Susan Thompson Buffett (June 15, 1932 – July 29, 2004) was an American activist for the causes of civil rights, abortion rights and birth control, and the first wife of investor Warren Buffett.
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- Abortion Funding
- Gates Foundation
- Source of Wealth
Allen Greenberg, the executive director of the foundation, was married from 1983 to 1995 to the Buffetts' daughter, Susie, who is chair. The Buffett Foundation was set up in 1964 but had no director until Greenberg took the job in 1987.
Susan Buffett's will bestowed about $2.5 billion on the foundation, to which her husband's further gifts of $315 million have been added.
The Buffett Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, preferring instead to seek out worthy recipients on its own. Of the $17.6 million that the Buffett Foundation donated in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999, nearly $3.8 million went to Planned Parenthood, among its top contributors. It also involves itself directly at the clinic level. I...
In the 1990s, the Buffett Foundation helped finance the development of the abortion drug RU-486. Between 2001 and 2014, the foundation contributed over $1.5 billion to abortion related causes, including at least $427 million to Planned Parenthood and $168 million to the National Abortion Federation. It has also funded the Guttmacher Institute, whic...
Warren Buffett's intention was originally to leave 99% of his estate to the Buffett Foundation, but in June 2006 he announced that he would give 85% of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationinstead. Buffett stated that he changed his mind because he has grown to admire Gates's foundation over the years; he believed that the Gates Foundat...
The vast bulk of Buffett's wealth consists of his personal holdings in Berkshire Hathaway, a conglomerateof which he controls almost 40% directly, and which he has managed personally since the mid-1960s. Giving away such a large part of his company holding could prove problematic in that much of the business of Berkshire Hathaway consists of stock-...
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Sep 17, 2019 · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for the late wife of hedge fund billionaire Warren Buffett, is also the biggest funder of access to abortion for low-income women in the United States...
- Kelsey Piper
Feb 6, 2020 · Billionaire investor Warren Buffett had an open marriage with his first wife, Susan Thompson, until her death in 2004.
Jul 30, 2004 · Susan T. Buffett, the wife of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, died of a stroke Thursday, his company said. She was 72. Warren Buffett, 73-year-old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., was...
Warren Buffett's first wife, Susan Thompson Buffett was a political activist who left her whole life and marriage behind to follow her dream of becoming a singer. She and Warren...
Susan Thompson Buffett (June 15, 1932 – July 29, 2004) was an American activist for the causes of civil rights, abortion rights and birth control, and the first wife of investor Warren Buffett.
