Nancy Walton Laurie is the daughter of the late Bud Walton, the brother and business partner of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. James Lawrence “Bud” Walton ( December 20, 1921 &ndash March 21, 1995) was the younger brother of Sam Walton and cofounder of Wal-Mart Stores Inc (or Walmart as written in its new logo is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores Samuel Moore Walton ( March 29 1918 &ndash April 5 1992) was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher Oklahoma At Bud's death, she and her sister Ann Walton Kroenke inherited a stake in Wal-Mart now worth over USD$6 billion. Ann Walton Kroenke is indirectly an heir to part of the Wal-Mart fortune Wal-Mart Stores Inc (or Walmart as written in its new logo is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been
She is president and founder of a New York City dance company called Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. The City of New York [1]
She is the owner of Columbia Performing Arts Centre, a dance studio located in Columbia, Missouri.
She and her husband Bill, major contributors to the University of Missouri–Columbia despite neither having attended the school, were caught up in a scandal surrounding the naming of the school's new basketball arena in 2004. The University of Missouri (also known as the University of Missouri–Columbia, Mizzou, or MU) is a public land-grant and research Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " They had made a $25 million naming rights gift that went to the funding of the $75 million arena, and named the facility Paige Sports Arena after their daughter, Elizabeth Paige Laurie, who also did not attend the university. Naming rights are the right to name a piece of Property, either tangible property or an event usually granted in exchange for financial considerations Bill's brother Barry was a former Missouri basketball player, and Barry's son, Spencer Laurie, was a player on the team at the time. Nancy's nephew, Josh Kroenke, was also a former Missouri basketball player.
After Paige graduated from University of Southern California in 2004, a former roommate charged that she had been paid $20,000 over four years to do Paige's homework for her. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Once the charges were aired on the ABC news program 20/20, the elder Lauries relinquished naming rights of the facility, which is now known as Mizzou Arena. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. 20/20 is an American television Newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. Mizzou Arena is an indoor arena on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia Missouri. In June 2005, the college roommate was on the Ion Television show Lie Detector. Ion Television is a broadcast television network first broadcast on August 31 1998 Lie Detector was a television series on PAX TV which was renamed ION Television in 2007 [2] In September 2005, Paige voluntarily surrendered her degree and returned her diploma to USC. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Nancy and Bill formerly owned the St. Louis Blues hockey team until 2005, when they sold the team to Dave Checketts. The St Louis Blues are a professional Ice hockey team based in St Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dave Checketts (born c 1956 lives in Connecticut and is a familiar face to those who follow sports
In September 2007, Nancy purchased an 18,378-square-foot residence in the McDonald Heights community of Henderson, Nevada for $19 million. Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States adjacent to the Las Vegas metropolitan area; it is located mainly to the southeast [3] It is considered the largest home purchase in the history of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Las Vegas metropolitan area includes the Las Vegas Valley a 600-square-mile (1600 km² basin and surrounding areas that is part of Clark County in southern [4]