Donald Newhouse


Donald Edward Newhouse is an American businessman who owns Advance Publications. It was founded in 1922 by his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., and its properties include Condé Nast, dozens of newspapers across the U.S., a stake in cable company Charter Communications, and a stake in Warner Bros. Discovery. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of $11 billion as of June 2024. He resides in New York City.

Early life

Donald Newhouse was born in New York City to a Jewish family. 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. Newhouse was included on The Jerusalem Post's list of the world's 50 richest Jews in 2010.

Philanthropy

In January 2020, Newhouse donated $75 million to Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The communications school is named after his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.
It was announced in March 2021 that Newhouse and his wife Susan would launch a fund at the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration with a $20m donation, the largest donation in the charity's history.

Personal life

Newhouse married Susan Marley in 1955, just after she had graduated from Wellesley College. He has three children:
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, a different variant of the same rare disorder that afflicted his brother, Si Newhouse.