Jean (Gigi) Pritzker
Chicago, Illinois
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
United States
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hotels, investments
$3,300,000,000
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#715 Billionaires 2019
#251 Forbes 400 2018
One of 11 billionaire heirs to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, Jean "Gigi" Pritzker is now a movie producer based in Los Angeles. In 2015 she founded Madison Wells Media, a diversified media & entertainment company that includes a virtual reality division.Films that she has produced include 'Drive,' 'Rabbit Hole,' 'Ender's Game,' 'Mortdecai' and the Oscar-nominated 'Hell or High Water.'Through her Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation, she donates to the arts, education and community-oriented nonprofits.
Her company, Madison Wells Media, is named for her great-grandfather who sold newspapers at the corner of Madison Avenue and Wells Street in Chicago.While she was a student at Stanford University, Pritzker spent a year abroad in Nepal, where among other things she studied folktales.
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