Leonore Annenberg

Enjoy a little bit of history by touring The Annenberg Historic Estate and Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage – A must do when you visit the Palm Springs area! Sunnylands is a 200-acre compound that served as the home of Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg. He was the founder and publisher of magazines like TV Guide, Seventeen and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The historic Estate welcomes national and international leaders for high-level retreats and meetings that address and...Read Full Story

Enjoy a little bit of history by touring The Annenberg Historic Estate and Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage – A must do when you visit the Palm Springs area! Sunnylands is a 200-acre compound that served as the home of Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg. He was the founder and publisher of magazines like TV Guide, Seventeen and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The historic Estate welcomes national and international leaders for high-level retreats and meetings that address and...Read Full Story

Leonore Annenberg, the widow of billionaire publisher Walter Annenberg who continued his tradition of philanthropy and patronage of the arts, died Thursday. She was 91.Annenberg died of natural causes at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., family spokeswoman Kathleen Hall Jamieson said. Her family was at her side, said Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.Annenberg was chairwoman and president of the Annenberg Foundation...Read Full Story

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Leonore Annenberg's 32.01-carat diamond ring just sold at auction for a whopping $7.7 million. The late billionaire philanthropist bought the ring for herself for her 90th birthday before she died at 91 this March. Armed guards had to deliver the rock to her home when she bought it, and now the ring will be delivered to a buyer (whose name was not released) who purchased the gem through Christie's auction house over the phone. Certainly beats those Home Shopping Network call-in buys! It...Read Full Story