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Wallis Annenberg
Wallis Huberta Annenberg (July 15, 1939 – July 28, 2025) was an American philanthropist and heiress. Annenberg served as president and chairwoman of the board of the Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar philanthropic organization in the United States.
Wallis Annenberg was born in Philadelphia on July 15, 1939, into a Jewish family, the daughter of publishing magnate Walter Hubert Annenberg, and his first wife, Bernice Veronica Dunkelman, known as Ronny, a socialite from Toronto, Canada. Her grandfather Moses Annenberg (1877–1942), owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, emigrated from Germany to Chicago in 1900. Her father owned a 15-acre (61,000 m2) estate called Inwood, where Wallis was raised.
When she was 10 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.
Wallis Annenberg graduated in 1959 from Pine Manor College, when it was a junior college.
She had a brother, Roger, who died by suicide at the age of 22 in 1962, while in treatment for schizophrenia. She named one of her sons after her brother.
On a trip to Venice, in 1959, Annenberg met and fell in love with Seth Weingarten, who was just beginning studies at Yale Medical School. After only one year of studies at Columbia, Annenberg dropped out of school and married Weingarten at Inwood in 1960. They moved around the country, following her husband's career.
They had four children: 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 accepted a position at the hospital now known as Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and they established a permanent home in California.
In 1975, she divorced Weingarten. In 1978, he won the custody of the children. In 1979, he offered Wallis full custody. She never remarried.
Wallis Annenberg
Wallis Huberta Annenberg (July 15, 1939 – July 28, 2025) was an American philanthropist and heiress. Annenberg served as president and chairwoman of the board of the Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar philanthropic organization in the United States.
Wallis Annenberg was born in Philadelphia on July 15, 1939, into a Jewish family, the daughter of publishing magnate Walter Hubert Annenberg, and his first wife, Bernice Veronica Dunkelman, known as Ronny, a socialite from Toronto, Canada. Her grandfather Moses Annenberg (1877–1942), owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, emigrated from Germany to Chicago in 1900. Her father owned a 15-acre (61,000 m2) estate called Inwood, where Wallis was raised.
When she was 10 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.
Wallis Annenberg graduated in 1959 from Pine Manor College, when it was a junior college.
She had a brother, Roger, who died by suicide at the age of 22 in 1962, while in treatment for schizophrenia. She named one of her sons after her brother.
On a trip to Venice, in 1959, Annenberg met and fell in love with Seth Weingarten, who was just beginning studies at Yale Medical School. After only one year of studies at Columbia, Annenberg dropped out of school and married Weingarten at Inwood in 1960. They moved around the country, following her husband's career.
They had four children: 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 accepted a position at the hospital now known as Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and they established a permanent home in California.
In 1975, she divorced Weingarten. In 1978, he won the custody of the children. In 1979, he offered Wallis full custody. She never remarried.
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