Personal Life
McCaw was a founding donor of The Free Willy Foundation (along with Warner Brothers Studios) in November 1994 with a $2M donation. The foundation was formed to re-release Keiko the Killer Whale into the wild.
McCaw was previously married to Wendy McCaw, a California newspaper publisher. They divorced in 1997 with Wendy receiving a reported $460 million (U.S.) divorce settlement.
McCaw is married to Susan Rasinski McCaw, a former United States Ambassador to Austria. They have three children together.
McCaw is currently on the Board of Overseers for the Hoover Institution and serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, and the Friends of Nelson Mandela Foundation. He is president of the Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation, which supports a variety of educational, environmental, and international economic development projects. Mr. McCaw has also served on the boards of Conservation International, the Grameen Technology Center, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and the Academy of Achievement, among various other organizations.
He also bought the most expensive car ever sold: a 1962 Ferrari 250GTO, originally built for Sir Stirling Moss. He paid $35 million for it.
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