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Warren Buffett Astrid Lived Together Since 1978 And Married In 2006

March 24, 2012 by · Comments Off on Warren Buffett Astrid Lived Together Since 1978 And Married In 2006 

Warren Buffett Astrid Lived Together Since 1978 And Married In 2006, Warren Edward Buffett, legendary value investor, turned an ailing textile mill into a financial engine that powered what would become the world’s most successful holding company.

Known as the “Oracle of Omaha” for his investment prowess, Buffett has amassed a personal fortune in excess of $62 billion, making him top dog on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list in 2008. He inspires legions of loyal fans to make a yearly trek to Omaha for an opportunity to hear him speak at Berkshire’s annual meeting, an event ironically dubbed the “Woodstock of Capitalism”.
Buffett was born to Howard and Leila Buffett on August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska. He was the second of three children, and the only boy. His father was a stockbroker and four-term United States congressman. Howard served non-consecutive terms on the Republican ticket, but espoused libertarian views.

Despite a net worth measured in billions, Warren Buffett is legendarily frugal. He still lives in the five-bedroom house he bought in 1958 for $31,000, drinks Coca Cola and dines at local restaurants, where a burger or a steak are his preferred table fare. For years, he eschewed the ideas of purchasing a corporate jet. When he finally acquired one, he named it the “Indefensible” – public recognition of his criticism about money spent on jets.

He remained married to Susan Thompson for more than 50 years after their 1952 wedding. They had three children, Susie, Howard and Peter. Buffett and Susan separated in 1977, remaining married until her death in 2004. Before her death, Susan introduced him to Astrid Menks, a waitress. Buffett and Menks began living together in 1978 and were married in August of 2006.
What do you do with your money when you are the world’s most successful investor? If you’re Warren Buffett, you give it away. Buffett stunned the world in June of 2006 when he announced the donation of the vast majority of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on world health issues, U.S. libraries and global schools. It is on of the world’s largest transparent charities.

Warren Susan Buffett Departure 1977

March 24, 2012 by · Comments Off on Warren Susan Buffett Departure 1977 

Warren Susan Buffett Departure 1977, Warren Buffett says in the new biography coming out Monday that letting his wife leave their Omaha home in 1977 was the “biggest mistake I ever made,” according to The New York Daily News.

The newspaper’s Rush & Molloy gossip column says Buffett told Snowball author Alice Schroeder that Susie Buffett’s departure for California “was preventable. It was definitely 95% my fault … I just wasn’t attuned enough to her, and she’d always been perfectly attuned to me. She kept me together for a lot of years … It shouldn’t have happened.”

One of the reasons Susie began a romance with her tennis coach and then left her “iceberg” husband: Katherine Graham’s public flirtation with Buffett when the Washington Post publisher was a 59-year-old widow and he was 46.

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought a stake in the Washington Post company WPO, By the Daily News’ account, Schroeder’s book talks about how Graham and Buffett would travel around the country “on business” or spend time at her mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. It describes how Graham made no effort to hide her flirtation, tossing her house key to Buffett at parties.

The News quotes Schroeder as writing that Susie “made it plain to several friends that she was furious and humiliated” but sent Graham written permission to date her husband. “Kay showed the letter to people as though it let her off the hook.”

Although they continued to live separately, Warren and Susan Buffett did not divorce. After her death in 2004 he married his longtime companion Astrid Menks. Graham died in 2001.

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