'You are who you are and the least important thing about you is what you have,' Abigail Disney tells her children
By the time she was in her 20s, documentary filmmaker and Disney heiress Abigail Disney was"embarrassed" by the family money she'd inherited,Disney worked hard to earn degrees from prestigious schools to"feel legitimate" and has donated more than $70 million of her fortune to date.
, the 59-year-old granddaughter of Walt Disney Company cofounder Roy Disney said her parents' wealth had reached new heights by the time she went off to college. Disney told the Cut that the fortune she inherited would have made her"a billionaire if I wanted to be a billionaire," but instead she"wore sh---- clothes," worked hard to hide her wealth from classmates and friends in graduate school, earned degrees from Yale, Stanford, and Columbia to"feel legitimate," and began donating even more money than her parents had.
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