Donald Newhouse


Donald Edward Newhouse is an American billionaire heir and business magnate. He owns Advance Publications, founded by his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., in 1922, whose properties include Condé Nast, dozens of newspapers across the US, cable company Bright House Networks and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of $11.8 billion. He resides in New York City.

Early life

Newhouse's father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and began the family media business. His mother, Mitzi Epstein, was an arts patron and philanthropist who grew up in an upper middle class family on the Upper West Side, the daughter of a silk tie importer. Donald Newhouse is Jewish, and was listed on the Jerusalem Post's list of the world's 50 richest Jews in 2010.

Philanthropy

In January 2020, Newhouse donated $75 million to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at his Alma mater Syracuse University. The communications school is named after his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.

Personal life

Newhouse married Susan Marley in 1955, just after she had graduated from Wellesley College. The couple had three children, all of whom now have children of their own.
The couple's primary residence was in New York City, but they often spent weekends on their farm in New Jersey. They remained married until her death in 2015 of primary progressive aphasia, the same rare disorder that afflicted his brother, Si Newhouse.