Alice Walton - Walmart Heiress

Before she sold her ranch she was the "Richest Texan" Sounds impressive.

She returned her college diploma when it later came out that her roommate had been paid $20K to do her homework.

Lesbian. Some lucky gal needs to snap her up!

Agree r3. Lez.

She is one mean dyke

I have visited the museum last November. It is certainly something to see. Amazing what she has done with her money.

I would love to see that museum but spend my time in the West and it’s so far and other than trying to snap up Miss Alice there’s not much there.

She plays softball on a league and shops at Trader Joes. She buys tupperware from Phranc.

Is this Glenn's Oscar role?

She is worth 45 BILLION. That BETTER be one hell of a museum. Building the museum allows her to not pay taxes on her art collection's appreciation.

Just remember, This fucking bitch, together with Jeff Bezos represents the undoing, the decimation of the American middle class. Hope she rots in hell.

I’m not sure why OP thinks we’d have a Walton as a DL fave.

Because of her cane, c pap machine and gal pal, I guess r11. But yeah, not for what walmart has done to this country.

[quote]for decades was very involved in some obscure horse sport called "cutting".

Honey, what do you want to know about cutting horses? You get a smart little horse who can “cut” a cow out of a group of cattle (a necessity for branding, gelding, etc. a herd). So it has real-life roots but now they do it as a competition too.

MAN, I miss Texas. Seriously.

Funny thing is, she looks like a poor Floridian who HAS to shop at Wal-Mart and takes the bus.

OP here. She's eccentric, enough said. If it'll make you happy Wal-Mart quietly announced the closure of 10 stores this week. There have been many others, Sams Club too. Their future may not be too bright.

I made a trip to Arkansas to visit the museum last year. It is an incredible building and sounds like an incredible collection but it is a bit odd. The focus is exclusively American artists but she collected expensive but not popular paintings by the artists. For example, rather than collecting one of the landmark paintings by Edward Hopper or Paul Cadmus she purchased their self-portrait instead. It was an interesting collection but not one you would travel to see more than once.

Why are you signing your post "living on $2.5 M in Connecticut"? is that what you are living on? How is that relevant? Also, who fucking cares if those scumbags lose some stores.

[quote]She returned her college diploma when it later came out that her roommate had been paid $20K to do her homework.

That was her much younger cousin Paige Laurie, granddaughter of Sam Walton's brother Bud. It happened at (surprise) USC. Today she owns a chain of fancy grocery stores in West LA and Malibu.

R18 Thank you!

R19 is living on 2.5 million Vietnamese dong

Another correction. Apparently after she sold her Rocking W Texas ranch she bought a home in Fort Worth, so she still is the "Richest Texan".

I’m sure she’ll have a nice funeral.

R17:

Should Alice revive the Moe Howard hairstyle of her younger years? Y/N/Zoo/VV

What has she done for me lately?? DL icon status isn’t handed out like cheap Walmart fiesta ware!

Yeah, well, The Orange-utan inherited a shitload of money from HIS old man, too, when he was getting started. And look how he turned out.

I really think 2.5 Million should start a thread explaining his handle, otherwise we’ll just have people asking the same question in every thread.

It does make me happy r15. Very happy. But not happy enough. I'd like to be more happy in the near future.

She donated a ton of money to Hillary in 2016. Before that she gave exclusively to Republicans.

[quote]Building the museum allows her to not pay taxes on her art collection's appreciation.

She would only have to pay taxes if she SOLD those pieces AND received a profit.

Stop trying to make Alice happen on DL.

I wish she'd happen in the obituaries.

Damn, R24, she was butch. She looks like Lea DeLaria in her groundbreaking role as "Dutch" Sugarbaker on [italic]Designing Women.[/italic]

[quote]Walmart fiesta ware

No.

I want to know how much she spent on art that glamorizes smoking in a failed effort to quit. She didn't buy anything cheap. If I could afford to attempt to quit smoking like this I would absolutely be down.

From Wikipedia:

Walton's attempt to quit smoking led to the purchase of a painting reminiscent of an earlier painting by John Singer Sargent by Alfred Maurer which depicts a full-length woman smoking.[26] The second painting was by Tom Wesselmann is titled "Smoker #9[27]," and depicts a hyper realistic, disembodied hand and mouth smoking a cigarette.[28]

[quote]I want to know how much she spent on art that glamorizes smoking in a failed effort to quit. She didn't buy anything cheap.

Yes, she did, because the world is cheap to her. She has $49 Billion dollars. $10K is inconsequential and a drop in the bucket. Heck, she probably makes $10K in interest every 5 minutes.

Dear Alice,

You can’t take it with you.

God.

[quote]Just remember, This fucking bitch, together with Jeff Bezos, represents the undoing, the decimation of the American middle class.

Please let this sink in, shoppers.

I don’t think she is a lesbain; married twice. As has been said, the second one to the ‘help’. I doubt that would have gone down well with the family so it’s not a great ‘merkin’, is it? She has had some plastic surgery and a style makeover a couple of years ago.

She's still ugly.

r40 Yeah she's no Diane Keaton lesbian. She probably just looks like a lesbian on paper.

But if she is a lesbian, she needs to date Fran Lebowitz. Fran would make Alice feel sophisticated and ingratiated into New York society as she hasn't really been. Fran would have no qualms about Walmart as there are no Walmarts in Manhattan. Out of sight, out of mind. Alice has a fabulous duplex apartment on Park Avenue where Fran can smoke till she croaks. As a consolation for Fran having to occasionally venture to Arkansas or Texas she can enjoy the fact that some bars and even some restaurants still allow smoking.

Who's her heir?

Can’t even pay her employees a living wage so WE THE PEOPLE subsidize their incomes to make ends meet. Despicable, rancid CUNT.

I think she’ll beautiful. If she had any work done, it’s the perfect amount.

Then GO BACK THERE, R13. Bye!

Billionaire Jacqueline Mars, doyenne of the Washington DC One-Percenters and Benefactress of the Arts, has had her own driving accident "issues." One fatality and one unborn baby.

I wonder if they're besties; they should be.

R43 - Probably her horses.

r44 Huzzah! Walmart is the fucking worst and anyone who hasn't should watch "Walmart: the high cost of low price" it will enrage you.

My friend tried to sell her a de Kooning drawing last year but she haggled so much and for so long about the price (which was in line with similar works) that he sold it to a European museum instead . She's sounds like a tough, mean, old bitch.

r50 ....

R51 - perfect casting for Alice's bio-pic.

As R23 tried to point out, the "living on 2.5 million in Connecticut" is a reference to what someone posted in a completely unrelated thread. I caused a lot of head scratching there too until it was explained.

R49. We all saw that circa 2008. The disc likely came in the mail from Netflix.

Oh and did you need me to pick you up something? I’m headed to Walmarts now.

Sporting her "New York" glasses. I bet she doesn't take these back to Arkansas. These wouldn't look right resting on the center console of an F-150.

3 DUIs under her belt, Alice looks composed or as some say, "she's functioning", while Goldie... doesn't. It's not just the photo. Goldie looks obliterated in every photo from the event.

Truthfully, she looks like she could go either way!

Nasty piece of caca.

A big chunk of her money is the value of her Walmart stock? Or does she have 45 billion in diversified investments?

The ONLY thing this cunt should do is turn her wealth over to Walmart workers so they approach living wage and financial security, like autoworkers once could, decades ago.

Maybe if Americans really understood just how much money one billion dollars is, we could begin to have real tax reform. Consider one billion in a different unit of measurement:

One million seconds = 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds.

One billion seconds = 31 GODDAMN YEARS, 251 days, 13 hours, 34 minutes, 55 seconds.

Alice Walton $45 billion; Jeff Bezos $137 billion—will it ever be enough?

Her billions are blood money. Walmart is the largest private employer in the USA and its retail employees are not paid a living wage and subsist on food stamps and medicaid. Because Walmart has been successful in undercutting its small mom and pop competition, its employees don't have the option of finding another job. BFD, she built a museum and is reaping huge tax benefits and positive PR. She deserves the same room in hell as the Koch brothers and the Sacklers and the Trumps.

Definitely a lesbian. She reminds me of a lot of rich socialite Iris Love, who was in a gay relationship with Liz Smith.

Just because she may be a lesbian doesn't make her an ally. Viz. Mary Cheney and so many anti lgbtq Republicans in Congress who get busted in bathrooms. Who cares?

I wonder what Alice's cigarette brand is. Probably Marlboro Lights 100's, that seems to be the default cigarette among rich ladies who still smoke.

If I remember correctly she had purchased a 44 million dollar painting right before 1000s of workers at wally world were laid off. Fuck this bitch with a barbed wire dildo.

She seems like the kind of character JB Fletcher would visit on episode in the later seasons

Is it technically correct to refer to his wife as an "heiress?"

True, she is his heir, having inherited some of his money. But, I'd consider his daughters (and a couple nieces who inherited) heiresses.

She's more the dowager, than an heiress, no?

A lot of average schmo's became millionaires when Walmart went public. All people who worked at the company early on. Here in CA Walmart people make $15 an hour and have health insurance. And they hire mostly people that other businesses won't hire. I'm not a super fan, but I'm not a hater on principal either. Walmart is also the largest single buyer of organic goods in the US. I've had clients who have sold to them. The trick is to be innovative, because after a year or two, if your product is good they will copy it. So you have to innovate again, and keep them on their toes.

[quote]'m not a hater on principal either.

Maybe on vice-principal?

r55 looks like a man trying to do a drag version of Brett Somers.

r69, good catch!

Alice was supposedly interviewed for a trans history project, and Alice supposedly confirmed she's trans - but her account of being trans is not supposed to be made public until after her death.

R68, I think you've confused Walmart with Costco. Costco, unlike Walmart, pays its people well, provides great benefits, and bonuses, and is the United State's single largest retailer of organic produce, including meat. In fact, Costco is buying their own organic farms to help meet their demand, plus providing financing for expansion to organic farmers with whom they have contracts.

I would love it if Walmart went out of business. They pay shit wages and treat their employees like crap. I hate the way they compete with small businesses and kill the economies of small towns.