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What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1000" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/abigail-disney-has-more-money-than-shell-ever-spend.html" target="_blank"><strong>What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend - The Cut</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>Abigail Disney, 59, is an activist and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker. She is also the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, making her an heiress to the Disney family fortune (she declines to say how much she inherited, but has given away over $70 million since she turned 21). Raised in North Hollywood, California, with three siblings, she has a doctorate from Columbia and currently lives in New York. Here, she talks about the paradoxes of growing up in tremendous wealth; she will also be featured on the Cut’s podcast, </em><a href="https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-cut-on-tuesdays" target="_blank">The Cut on Tuesdays</a><em>, on April 9.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Growing up, did you know you were wealthy?</strong></p><p>At least when I was young, my parents weren’t really showy people. The money didn’t really change them until later. Actually, they were really proud of being humble people — an oxymoron, I know. They wanted to raise us with the sense that we weren’t any better than anyone else.</p><p> </p><p>That said, we lived in a big enough house that we would always get two doorbells on Halloween — people would ring the front and the back thinking it was two houses. But again, it wasn’t lavish. There weren’t private airplanes and things like that until I got older.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1000, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/abigail-disney-has-more-money-than-shell-ever-spend.html'][B]What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend - The Cut[/B][/URL] [I]Abigail Disney, 59, is an activist and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker. She is also the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, making her an heiress to the Disney family fortune (she declines to say how much she inherited, but has given away over $70 million since she turned 21). Raised in North Hollywood, California, with three siblings, she has a doctorate from Columbia and currently lives in New York. Here, she talks about the paradoxes of growing up in tremendous wealth; she will also be featured on the Cut’s podcast, [/I][URL='https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-cut-on-tuesdays']The Cut on Tuesdays[/URL][I], on April 9.[/I] [B]Growing up, did you know you were wealthy?[/B] At least when I was young, my parents weren’t really showy people. The money didn’t really change them until later. Actually, they were really proud of being humble people — an oxymoron, I know. They wanted to raise us with the sense that we weren’t any better than anyone else. That said, we lived in a big enough house that we would always get two doorbells on Halloween — people would ring the front and the back thinking it was two houses. But again, it wasn’t lavish. There weren’t private airplanes and things like that until I got older. [/QUOTE]
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