As one of the most talked-about figures, Abigail Disney has built a significant fortune. Our team analyzed the latest data to provide a clear picture of their income.
What is Abigail Disney's Net Worth?
In July 2019, after much speculation and estimation, Abigail declared in an interview that her personal net worth was $120 million. She pointed out that she could have been worth as much as $500 million had she not given away so much money and if she was a more aggressive investor.
Abigail Disney is an American film producer and director, philanthropist, and social activist who has a net worth of $110 million. Abigail Disney is the great-niece ofWalt Disney. She is the daughter ofRoy E. Disney. Roy's father, Roy O. Disney, co-founded of The Walt Disney Company with his brother Walt. When Roy E. Disney died in 2009, he had a net worth of $1.2 billion and was one of the largest individual shareholders in the company. Roy had a total of four children including Abigail and siblings Tim Disney, Roy P. Disney, and Susan Disney.
Among her other philanthropic activities, Disney traveled to the Congo in 2011 with peace activist Leymah Gbowee to work with other peace activists in the region. The next year, the pair visited Sri Lanka for the launch of the Sri Lankan Women's Agenda on Peace, Security and Development. Later, in 2015, Disney and Gbowee joined 28 other international female peace activists to cross the De-Militarized Zone between South and North Korea demanding an end to the Korean War.
Abigail Disney was born on January 24, 1960 in Los Angeles, California to Roy E. Disney and Patricia Dailey. She is the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, who co-founded the Walt Disney Company with his brother Walt Disney. Raised in the San Fernando Valley, Abigail Disney went to the Buckley School. For her higher education, she attended Yale University, from which she graduated in 1982 with a BA in English literature. Disney subsequently went to graduate school at Stanford University, earning her MA in English literature. She went on to obtain a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University in 1994. While pursuing her doctorate, Disney taught at Iona College in New Rochelle.
Abigail Disney turned to the family business of filmmaking after she met Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee in 2006. Her filmmaking career began with a documentary film, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell". The movie, which documented the lives of women in Liberia, was made with Emmy Award-winning director Gini Reticker. In 2008, she launched Peace is Loud, an organization described as "supporting female voices and international peace-building through nonviolent means." In 2009 Peace is Loud organized a Global Peace Tour which showed "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" at community screenings in the U.S. and other countries. It was part of the United Nation's International day of peace. Peace is Loud also funded a 10-day project regarding "female peace-building capacity" three different cities in the US. With partners Pamela Hogan and Gini Reticker, she produced the five part series "Women, War & Peace" which aired in 2011 on PBS. Also in 2011, Disney received an Athena Film Festival Award for her extraordinary use of film for social change. She was a Woman of the Year Honoree at the 2015 Women's Image Network Awards.
Disney has been substantially involved in philanthropic endeavors for many decades. In 1991, she and her husband co-founded the Daphne Foundation to fund programs focused on combating poverty in New York City. Her other organization is Peace is Loud, a nonprofit she launched in 2008 to highlight women leaders through media and live events. Disney is also a member of Patriotic Millionaires, a group of affluent people who support greater taxes on the rich.
Abigail has been, somewhat ironically, anoutspoken critic of of massive wealth. She has gone so far as to say private jets should be banned. Her family actually owns a private jet, a Boeing 737, but she has declined to use it because she feels uncomfortable with the environmental impact. She claims to have given away $70 million of her own personal wealth since turning 21.
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Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.
