Mary Alice Dorrance Malone is an American billionaire and heiress to the

Campbell Soup Company Campbell Soup Company, trade name, doing business as Campbell's, is an American processed food and snack company. The company is most closely associated with its flagship canned soup products; however, through mergers and acquisitions, it has gro ...

fortune.

Early life

Mary Alice Dorrance is the daughter of John T. "Jack" Dorrance Jr (died 1989), the last Dorrance to run Campbell, and the granddaughter of John Thompson Dorrance. She has a bachelor's degree from the

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

Career

When her father died in 1989, she and her two brothers shared roughly one-third of the company. Malone is the

's largest shareholder, and a board member, along with her brother Bennett Dorrance, a Phoenix real estate developer. Her other brother is John Dorrance III.

Personal life

She was married to Stuart Malone, divorced in the mid-1990s, has two children, and lives in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. In 2009-10, she was the victim of an extortion attempt by her "longtime cook, traveling companion and confidante", involving "a tell-all book and movie about the heiress's personal life". Malone is "devoted to equestrian sports, she owns expansive estates and performance centers in Pennsylvania and Florida." In 2006, Malone purchased an oceanfront home in Barnegat Light, New Jersey.

References

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