Wallis Annenberg, Billionaire Philanthropist, Dies at 86 (Connecting the Dots: Wallis Annenberg, The Los Angeles Times, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, The Annenberg Challenge, The Weather Underground & Bill Clinton)
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Monday, 28 July 2025 01:51 PM EDT
Wallis Annenberg,
the billionaire philanthropist who supported the arts, science, education and
animal welfare causes over decades in Los Angeles, died Monday, her family
said.
She was
86.
Annenberg
died at home from complications related to lung cancer, the family said in a
statement to the Los Angeles Times.
“Wallis
transitioned peacefully and comfortable this morning to her new adventure,” the
statement said. “Cancer may have beaten her body but it never got her spirit.
We will hold her and her wisdom in our hearts forever.”
Her
name adorns institutions across the Los Angeles area, including the Wallis
Annenberg Building at the California Science Center, the Wallis Annenberg
GenSpace senior center and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
The
Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, the world's largest bridge for animals on
the move, will open next year over an LA freeway.
During
her 16-year tenure as president and chief executive of the Annenberg
Foundation, the nonprofit organization has donated about $1.5 billion to
thousands of organizations in Southern California, the Times reported.
Under
Wallis Annenberg's leadership, the foundation expanded its philanthropic scope
beyond media, arts and education to include animal welfare, environmental
conservation and healthcare.
Her
father, Walter Annenberg, started the foundation after selling his publishing
empire, including TV Guide and other publications, in 1989 to Rupert
Murdoch’s News Corp.
Walter Annenberg died in 2002.
Wallis
Annenberg was a longtime board member of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA. In 2002, she gave $10 million
to endow LACMA’s director position.
“Wallis
Annenberg blessed the Los Angeles community not only with her philanthropy, but
also with her guidance about how to improve our community,” said LACMA Chief
Executive Michael Govan, who filled that endowed position in 2006.
Born in
Philadelphia, she moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s after marrying
neurosurgeon Seth Weingarten. The couple divorced in 1975.
Wallis
Annenberg received the 2022 National Humanities Medal from President Joe Biden
for her life in philanthropy.
She is
survived by four children and five grandchildren.
Connecting
the Dots:
Wallis Annenberg was a trustee at the Annenberg-Dreier
Commission at Sunnylands, the chairman, president & CEO for the Annenberg
Foundation and a trustee at the Harlem Children's Zone.
Obama,
Ayers, and the Annenberg Challenge Cover-Up | PJ Media
http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-ayers-and-the-annenberg-challenge-cover-up/
Was Weather
Underground leader Bill Ayers really just "a guy
who lives in my neighborhood," as Obama described him?
(More on Obama and Ayers from Roger L. Simon here.)
William J.
Clinton commuted sentence for the Weather Underground.
William C. Ayers was
a member of the Weather Underground, the chairman for the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge, is married to Bernadine Dohrn and Richard
M. Daley’s adviser.
Bernadine Dohrn was
a member of the Weather Underground, a litigator for Sidley
Austin LLP and is married to William C. Ayers.
Barack Obama was
the chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and an intern
for Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was
a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Richard M. Daley’s
adviser was William (Bill) C. Ayers, is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago and William M. Daley’s brother.
William M. Daley is
Richard M. Daley’s brother, a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama
administration.
David D. Hiller is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, was the publisher &
president & CEO for the Los Angeles Times, the SVP for
the Tribune Publishing Co., a member of the Chicago Council
on Global Affairs and a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
Cameron F. Kerry is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, John F. Kerry’s brother
and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman of the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
David T. Dreier is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and the chairman for the Annenberg-Dreier
Commission at Sunnylands.
What
Former Rep. David Dreier is Up To Next
By
Shane Goldmacher
February
20, 2013
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/what-former-rep-david-dreier-is-up-to-next-20130220
David
Dreier, the recently retired Republican congressman from California, has landed
a gig to lead a new commission focused on trade for an arm of the
nonprofit Annenberg Foundation.
Dreier,
who spent three decades in the House, including time as the chair of the Rules
Committee, will be announced as the leader of a new Annenberg-Dreier
Commission on Wednesday. An advance copy of the announcement was
provided to National Journal.
Wallis Annenberg is
a trustee at the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, the
chairman, president & CEO for the Annenberg Foundation and a
trustee at the Harlem Children's Zone.
George Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone and the founder & chairman the chairman of the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone and the People for the American Way.
Norman Lear is a director at the People for the American Way,
an executive producer & writer for All in the Family and a
board of councilor’s member for the Annenberg School for Communication.
Wallis Annenberg is
a board of councilor’s member for the Annenberg School for
Communication, a director at the Music Center (Los Angeles)
and Walter H. Annenberg’s daughter.
Catharine Soros is a director at the Music
Center (Los Angeles) and married to Jeffrey Soros.
Jeffrey Soros is married to Catharine
Soros and George Soros’s nephew.
George Soros is Jeffrey Soros’s uncle and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago and an honorary life director at the Chicago Council on
Global Affairs.
Debora de Hoyos is
a partner at Mayer Brown and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Robert A. Helman was
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and
a partner at Mayer Brown.
William M. Daley is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Mayor Richard
M. Daley’s brother, the chief of staff for the Barack Obama Administration,
was a partner at Mayer Brown and a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
Debora de Hoyos is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a
partner at Mayer Brown.
Mickey Kantor is
a partner at Mayer Brown, and a board of councilors
member for the Annenberg School for Communication.
Penny S. Pritzker is
a director at the Chicago Public Education Fund and a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Chicago
Annenberg Challenge is the predecessor for the Chicago Public
Education Fund.
Howard M. McCue
III is a leadership council member at the Chicago Public
Education Fund and a partner at Mayer Brown.
Kenneth C.
Griffin is a director at the Chicago Public Education Fund
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
David J. Vitale is
a director at the Chicago Public Education Fund., a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
Linda S. Wolf was a leadership council member for the Chicago Public Education Fund, is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Andrew J. McKenna Sr. is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago and his son is Andrew J. McKenna Jr.
Andrew J.
McKenna Jr. is Andrew J. McKenna Sr’s son, a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs and was a leadership council member for
the Chicago Public Education Fund.
Ellen M. Costello is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs, and a leadership council member for
the Chicago Public Education Fund.
Donald A. Cooke is
a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a
leadership council member for the Chicago Public Education Fund.
Clare M. Munana was
a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, is a
director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a director at the Chicago Public
Education Fund.
John D. Nichols is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a director at
the Chicago Public Education Fund.
Siddharth N. Mehta is a director at the Chicago Public Education Fund, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was the CEO for HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
Robert J. Darnall is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, was a director at the HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
and a leadership council member for the Chicago Public Education
Fund.
John R.H. Bond was
a director at the HSBC North America Holdings Inc., a director at
the HSBC Holdings plc, the group chairman for the HSBC Bank
plc and a director at the Bank of England.
John J.
Studzinski is a papal knighthood knight, a director
at the Human Rights Watch and was the co-head of investment banking
for HSBC Holdings plc.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation is a funder for the Human Rights Watch and
the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Susan Crown is
a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a director at
the Chicago Public Education Fund, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and her father is Lester Crown.
Lester Crown is Susan
Crown’s father, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and the chairman for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
George Soros was a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch
and the founder of Soros Fund Management.
Soros Fund
Management was the buyer of assets, post-bankruptcy for MF
Global Holdings Ltd.
Jon S. Corzine was
the chairman & CEO for MF Global Holdings Ltd. and the chairman
& CEO for the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Bailout Company).
Goldman
Sachs International is a subsidiary of the Goldman Sachs Group
Inc. (Bailout Company).
Simon M.
Robertson was the managing director for Goldman Sachs
International, is a director at HSBC Holdings plc and a
director at the Economist Group.
HSBC Holdings
plc is a subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings Inc.
Anthea Disney is
a director at HSBC North America Holdings Inc. and was an EVP
for News Corp.
K. Rupert Murdoch is
the chairman & CEO for News Corp., The Man Who Owns the
News and a papal knighthood knight.
papal
knighthood is an honor conferred by pope from the Roman
Catholic Church.
John J.
Studzinski is a papal knighthood knight, a director
at the Human Rights Watch and was the co-head of investment banking
for HSBC Holdings plc.
George Soros is a benefactor for the Human Rights
Watch.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Human
Rights Watch.
Gara LaMarche was
the VP & director of U.S. programs for the Open Society Foundations,
an associate director at the Human Rights Watch and a director at
the White House Project.
Daisy Khan was
a director at the White House Project, is a developer for Park51 and
an executive director for the American Society for Muslim Advancement.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation is a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
Margery Tabankin is
the treasurer for the Barbra Streisand Foundation and a director at
the People for the American Way.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the People
for the American Way.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Norman Lear is
a director at People for the American Way, an executive producer
& writer for All in the Family and a board of councilor’s
member for the Annenberg School for Communication.
Wallis Annenberg is
a board of councilors member for the Annenberg School for Communication,
a director at the Music Center (Los Angeles) and Walter H.
Annenberg’s daughter.
Catharine Soros is
a director at the Music Center (Los Angeles) and married to Jeffrey
Soros.
Jeffrey Soros is
married to Catharine Soros and George Soros’s nephew.
George Soros is Jeffrey Soros’s uncle and was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago and an honorary life director at the Chicago Council on
Global Affairs.
Debora de Hoyos is
a partner at Mayer Brown and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Robert A. Helman was
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and
a partner at Mayer Brown.
William M. Daley is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Mayor Richard
M. Daley’s brother, the chief of staff for the Barack Obama Administration,
was a partner at Mayer Brown and a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
Debora de Hoyos is
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a
partner at Mayer Brown.
Mickey Kantor is
a partner at Mayer Brown, and a board of councilors
member for the Annenberg School for Communication.
Penny S. Pritzker is
a director at the Chicago Public Education Fund and a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Chicago
Annenberg Challenge is the predecessor for the Chicago Public
Education Fund.
Howard M. McCue
III is a leadership council member at the Chicago Public
Education Fund and a partner at Mayer Brown.
Kenneth C.
Griffin is a director at the Chicago Public Education Fund
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
David J. Vitale is
a director at the Chicago Public Education Fund., a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs.
Linda S. Wolf was
a leadership council member for the Chicago Public Education Fund,
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a director at
the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Valerie B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Andrew J. McKenna Sr. is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago and his son is Andrew J. McKenna Jr.
Andrew J.
McKenna Jr. is Andrew J. McKenna Sr’s son, a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a director at the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs and was a leadership council member for
the Chicago Public Education Fund.
Michelle Obama is a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Imad I. Qasim is a director at the Chicago Council on Global
Affairs and a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
Thomas A. Cole was
a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and is a
partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago and married to Josephine Baskin Minow.
Josephine
Baskin Minow is married to Newton N. Minow and an honorary
life director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
David D. Hiller was
a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a partner
at Sidley Austin LLP, the publisher & president & CEO for
the Los Angeles Times, the SVP for the Tribune Publishing
Co. and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago and counsel
at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was
an intern at Sidley Austin LLP and was the chairman for the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge.
William C. Ayers was
the chairman for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a member of
the Weather Underground, is married to Bernadine Dohrn
and Richard M. Daley’s adviser.
Bernadine Dohrn is
married to William C. Ayers, was a litigator for Sidley
Austin LLP and a member of the Weather Underground.
William J.
Clinton commuted sentence for the Weather Underground and is
the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
Clinton Foundation.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the American
Constitution Society.
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations and was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
David T. Dreier is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and the chairman for the Annenberg-Dreier
Commission at Sunnylands.
What
Former Rep. David Dreier is Up To Next
By
Shane Goldmacher
February
20, 2013
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/what-former-rep-david-dreier-is-up-to-next-20130220
David
Dreier, the recently retired Republican congressman from California, has landed
a gig to lead a new commission focused on trade for an arm of the
nonprofit Annenberg Foundation.
Dreier,
who spent three decades in the House, including time as the chair of the Rules
Committee, will be announced as the leader of a new Annenberg-Dreier
Commission on Wednesday. An advance copy of the announcement was
provided to National Journal.
Wallis Annenberg is
a trustee at the Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands, the
chairman, president & CEO for the Annenberg Foundation and a
trustee at the Harlem Children's Zone.
George Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone and the founder & chairman the chairman of the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone and the People for the American Way.
Norman Lear is a director at the People for the American Way,
an executive producer & writer for All in the Family and a
board of councilor’s member for the Annenberg School for Communication.
Wallis Annenberg is
a board of councilor’s member for the Annenberg School for
Communication, a director at the Music Center (Los Angeles)
and Walter H. Annenberg’s daughter.
Catharine Soros is a director at the Music
Center (Los Angeles) and married to Jeffrey Soros.
Jeffrey Soros is married to Catharine
Soros and George Soros’s nephew.
George Soros is Jeffrey Soros’s uncle and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
David T. Dreier is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and the chairman for the Annenberg-Dreier
Commission at Sunnylands.
Resources:
Past Research
L.A.
Times to NRA: Government’s ‘Responsibility’ To Regulate 2nd Amendment (Past Research on the Los Angeles Times)
Sunday,
February 22, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/02/la-times-to-nra-governments.html
Jon
Voight: ‘President Obama Doesn’t Love Israel’ (Past
Research on Wallis Annenberg)
Sunday,
March 15, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/jon-voight-president-obama-doesnt-love.html
Hours
After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet
Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the
Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next
(Covid Project)) (Past Research on Cameron Kerry)
Thursday,
July 21, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html
Long
Before James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, There Was Joe Kennedy (Past
Research on Wallis Annenberg)
Tuesday,
September 15, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/09/long-before-james-whitey-bulger-there.html
Fact
Check on Fact Check - Background check on "non-partisan" organization
(Past Research on Weather Underground & the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge)
Thursday,
December 29, 2011
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2011/12/fact-check-on-fact-check-background.html
White
House Project (Connecting the Dots: White House Project, American Society for
Muslim Advancement, Ted Turner, CNN, Jane Fonda A.K.A. Hanoi Jane, Rockefeller
Family Fund, USSR, Communist Party & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past Research on the White House Project)
Sunday,
October 15, 2023
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/10/white-house-project-connecting-dots.html
EPA
Expected to Say Greenhouse Gases Aren't Harmful (Connecting the Dots: The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Natural Resources Defense Council,
Cornell University, Global Green USA, Green Cross International, Mikhail
Gorbachev, Al Gore, The Climate Reality Project, Hollywood, Barbra Streisand
Foundation & Soros Funding, All Networking) (Past
Research on the Barbra Streisand Foundation & People for the American Way)
Sunday,
July 27, 2025
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2025/07/epa-expected-to-say-greenhouse-gases.html
Commercial
Club Chicago 2013-2014 Club Year Speaker (U.S. permanent representative for
NATO, Ivo H. Daalder) (Past Research on the Commercial
Club of Chicago & the Commercial Club Chicago)
Tuesday,
December 17, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/search?q=Chicago+Council+on+Global+Affairs+
Marc
Rich (Past Research on (Bill) William J. Clinton
& the Weather Underground)
Tuesday,
June 16, 2015
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