Sixty-three-year-old, Abigail Edna Disney hails from an influential family and you might know exactly which one we are talking about. She belongs to the Disney family with her grandfather being Roy O. Disney, who also happens to be co-founder of The Walt Disney Company along with his brother, Walter E. Disney.
She is known to have done her grown up in California and has attended prestigious educational institutions including the likes of Yale University, Stanford University, and Columbia University. Disney, the daughter of Patricia Ann and Roy E. Disney, is known best for her self-produced documentary films, her philanthropy, her activism, and of course, her connections with the Disney family.
After completing her education, Disney decided not to stray away from the family business and got into producing documentary films, with her debut documentary being Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which was released in 2008 and is a documentary exploring the civil war of Liberia which left the nation in shreds, especially focusing on how Christian and Muslim women banded together to get the government to engage in peace talks.
Along with the director of this documentary film, Gini Reticker, Disney set up her own production house in New York called Fork Films. This documentary has been the highlight of her entire career, not only because it kickstarted the said career but also established her style as a producer.
The documentary won Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival and it also got enough acclaim for Disney to decide to carve out another five-episode series titled Women, War, & Peace, which aired on PBS and has been awarded several awards and titles including Gracie Award and Television Academy Honour to name a few.
Abigail Disney is known to have worked towards changing society’s perspective on the role women have during the time of war. Instead of being mere collateral damage in a war, women have come out as agents of peace and harmony to bring back order in society multiple times, and Disney has taken to highlight this aspect to change the narrative.
Abigail Disney’s Net Worth
Abigail Disney is best known for her philanthropy, her active work as a social activist, as a television producer, and as a screenwriter. While coming from a well-reputed and already famous family must not only add pressure to succeed but also add to her overall net worth, Disney’s estimated net worth is also a product of her hard work.
From 2008 to 2022, Disney has produced a long list of films and documentaries, most of which have been awarded. Her success as an executive producer is likely to have added immensely to her net worth as well.
While we may not have an exact number, Abigail Disney’s assumed net worth stands at a proud $130 million. Having been honored with an Athena Film Festival Award for using her position to make a social change, and bagging the title of Woman of the Year Honoree during the Women’s Image Network Awards in 2015, Disney continues to pursue her efforts to use her voice for uplifting women.
A heavy portion of her net worth of $130 million is owed to her familial wealth. Being born with a golden spoon in her mouth, she is used to living in wealth and having a lavish lifestyle which we know is true thanks to the $18 million house she was known to have under her name.
But while she does have a huge sum of money under her name, there is also a lot that she seems to have given away. She set up the Daphne Foundation to fight poverty in New York and set up another organization called Peace Is Loud, who highlight the achievements of women leaders in our society through different means, she is also a part of Patriotic Millionaires, an organization made up of rich people who stands for greater taxes on the rich.
She has been extremely critical of her family company and has called out the Disney corporation multiple times for paying their CEO too much money while paying their workers next to nothing. While she has been vocal about unfairness in her family company and has done so much for society, there is strangely very little evidence of it all.
Not just this people have pointed out how Abigail has criticized those who own private planes, all while belonging to a family who also owns one. She claims to have given back to society and all of what she has done amounts to a number well over $100 million, though again there is not much evidence for it.
Philanthropic, or not, Abigail continues to mint money with her produced films and television series including but limited to Sergio, Sons of Perdition, Sun Come Up, Food Chains, and so many more.
