Walmart heiress Alice Walton is now ranked as the richest woman in the world and all eyes are on her to see who she will support in the upcoming presidential election.
Walton, 74, who is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, is said to be worth $95.1 billion according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
He sits behind his brothers, Rob and Jim, on the billionaires list, each owning nearly 12 percent of the retail superpower. He is also reported to have amassed more than $15 billion in stock sales and dividends over the years.
The world’s richest woman uses her wealth for philanthropic endeavors and has a history of bipartisan political donations.
Public records show Walton is a registered Republican and donated to Nikki Haley’s 2023 campaign even after Donald Trump said he would run again.
But Walton supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and has donated some of his dazzling fortune to Democrats in the past.
Walmart heiress Alice Walton is now ranked as the richest woman in the world with a net worth of $95.1 billion
She uses her wealth for philanthropic endeavors and has a history of bipartisan political donations.
He has not publicly said who he is supporting in the 2024 presidential showdown between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, and did not respond to queries from DailyMail.com on Monday.
The heiress donated to left-wing political action committee ActBlue and Democratic politicians like Hakeem Jefferies in 2020, according to Federal Election Commission records.
In 2016, Walton donated a whopping $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund. He also donated to Clinton’s campaign in 2008, but gave $10,000 to John McCain that same year, according to Forbes.
Walton turned her attention to art curating after purchasing her first piece when she was just 10 years old.
This interest led her to head the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened to the public in her hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2011.
Walton, who previously had a drunken driving ticket that was later dropped, is said to have donated his own art collection to form the basis of the exhibits and spent more than $300 million building the institution.
Walton (center) sits behind his brothers, Rob (left) and Jim (right), on the billionaires list, with each brother owning nearly 12 percent of Walmart.
Walton founded the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as a nonprofit charity to bring art to the public.
It now features works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Norman Rockwell.
The museum’s website describes Walton as a philanthropist “committed to increasing access to the arts, enhancing education, improving health, and promoting economic opportunity for all.”
He also raised horses for more than a decade on a ranch in Texas, which he sold in 2015, having owned six champion horses over the years.
In 2017, she founded the Alice L. Walton Foundation, which works to increase access to the arts, improve education, enhance health and promote economic opportunity for all, according to her biography.
In 2022, the holistic health institute she founded in Bentonville the previous year was renamed the Alice L. Walton College of Medicine.
