Susan Gail Alfond (born 1946) is an American investor, philanthropist, and

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busi ...

Biography

Alfond was born to a

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

family, the daughter of Dorothy (née Levine) and

Harold Alfond Harold Alfond (March 6, 1914 – November 16, 2007) was an American businessman who founded the Dexter Shoe Company and established the first factory outlet store. Early life Alfond was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, on March 6, 1914, ...

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January 1, 2011 Her father founded the Dexter Shoe Company in 1958 and sold it to Warren Buffett in 1993 for $433 million of

Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from which it invests the float (the retained premiu ...

stock. Forbes lists her as the richest person in Maine.

Personal life

Alfond has three children, Emily Pearl, Daniel Pearl, and David Pearl. She lives in

Scarborough, Maine Scarborough is a town in Cumberland County on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Maine. The town is a coastal resort area. Located about south of Portland, Scarborough is part of the Portland– South Portland– Biddeford, Main ...

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American billionaires Jewish American philanthropists American women philanthropists 1946 births Living people People from Scarborough, Maine Businesspeople from Maine

Susan Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...

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