Anne Cox Chambers

Anne Cox Chambers

Anne Beau Cox Chambers (born December 1, 1919, in Dayton, Ohio) is a media proprietor, who is primary owner of Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire that includes newspapers, television, radio, cable television, and other businesses.

She is the daughter of James M. Cox, a newspaper publisher and 1920 Democratic Presidential nominee, and his second wife, Margaretta Parker Blair. She owns and controls her father's business interests, through Cox Enterprises. For 33 years she co-owned the family company with her sister, Barbara Cox Anthony, who died on May 28, 2007. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Her net worth has been estimated by Forbes at $12.4 billion in September 2010, based principally on her equity interest in Cox Enterprises. She is the 20th-richest person in the United States and 53rd-richest person in the world.

Cox-Chambers has homes in Atlanta's Buckhead, an apartment on Sutton Place in New York, a 17th century estate in Provence France and a plantation estate in South Carolina.