Mary Anselmo

Mary Anselmo is the philanthropist widow of Reynold "Rene" Anselmo, the founder of PanAmSat, the first privately held satellite communications company in the United States. A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, she was 79 years old as of March 2008. She has three children:^[1] Reverge C., Pier, and Rayce Anselmo.^[2]

Rene Anselmo died in 1995, two days before the public offering of his company.^[1] For a time, Mary was principal owner of the company, although she had rarely been involved in her husband's business and said in 1996 that she knew precious little about satellites.^[2] When PanAmSat was bought by KKR and other private equity firms in 2004, she received a net $250 million.^[1]

Anselmo was described as "soft-spoken and gracious", living in an "elegant chateau modeled on the Petit Trianon at Versailles" in a 1996 article in The New York Times.^[2]

Wealth

She regularly appears on the Forbes magazine list of wealthiest people in the world. According to the magazine's 2008 rankings, her net worth was estimated at $4.1 billion, and her rank was 1,014.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Web page titled "The World's Billionaires / #1014 Mary Anselmo", Forbes magazine website. Retrieved March 15, 2008
2. ^ ^{a b c} Landler, Mark, "A Widow's Pique", The New York Times, June 16, 1996

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