Teresa Heinz Kerry Net Worth

Net Worth:	$750 Million
Date of Birth:	October 5, 1938 (86 years old)
Gender:	Female
Profession:	Philanthropist, Businessperson
Nationality:	United States of America

What is Teresa Heinz Kerry’s Net Worth?

Teresa Heinz Kerry is a Portuguese-American humanitarian, heiress, and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $750 million. Kathleen Heinz Kerry amassed her wealth as the H.J. Heinz Company Heiress and a successful businessperson in her own right.

Heinz rose to fame as a result of her marriage to John Kerry, a former senator and 2004 candidate for president. She serves as the chairman of the Heinz Family Philanthropies and the Heinz Endowments.

Childhood

Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira was born on October 5, 1938, in Lourenco Marques in the East African colony of Portuguese Mozambique. She was raised by Irene Thierstein, a dual citizen of Portugal and the United Kingdom, and Jose Simoes-Ferreira Jr., a Portuguese oncologist, and expert in tropical diseases.

A Swiss-German family that resided on the island of Malta was the descendant of her paternal grandfather. Teresa graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages and Literature in 1960.

After earning her degree from the University of Geneva’s School of Translation and Interpretation in 1963, she relocated to the United States to serve as a UN translator.

Career/Marriages

Patricia Heinz Kerry became a citizen five years after he married U.S. Senator Henry John Heinz, a descendant of the H.J. Heinz Company. She rose to the position of head of Heinz Endowments and The Heinz Family Philanthropies, organizations that give money to environmental and social issues.

She co-founded the Alliance of Healthy Homes in 1990 with the help of the Heinz endowments. Children’s health is promoted via the program. At an Earth Day rally that same year, Heinz ran into Senator John Kerry.

Before Senator Heinz’s fatal flight crash on April 4, 1991, this was the only time the two had ever spoken. Teresa Heinz and John Kerry reconnected during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. Then-President George H.W. Bush selected Heinz to be a member of a State Department delegation.

They started dating in 1993, and they got hitched in May 1995. She made the decision to maintain her Republican registration up to John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004, and she also preserved the name Heinz, declaring in a statement: “My legal name is still Teresa Heinz. My name in politics is Teresa Heinz Kerry. Just so people won’t inquire about if so-and-so is so-and-wife so’s or other things.

More than any other moniker, Teresa Heinz best describes who I have been all of my adult life. And did I mention that that is the name of my boys? That is therefore my full legal name, as well as the name I go by at work and in Pittsburgh.

Heinz was a delegate for non-governmental organizations at the Earth Summit in 1992. She co-founded Second Nature in 1993 with Kerry, a program that provides environmentally friendly teaching to college campuses, and the Heinz Awards in 1995.

Outstanding Contributions to the Environment was one of the Heinz Award categories. Pensions in Crisis: Why the System is Failing America and How You Can Protect It was published in 1995, and Teresa authored the forward for the book. The H. John Heinz III Foundation helped to finance the book.

In addition to her diligence, Heinz Kerry invested $20 million from his endowments in the creation of the Heinz Center, a facility devoted to advancing economic and scientific challenges, in 1995. She has been the host of an annual conference series on women’s health and the environment since 1996.

She also established the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research, which annually grants eight awards totaling $10,000 for doctoral dissertation support and eight awards totaling $5,000 for master’s thesis support for research with “public policy relevance that increases society’s understanding of environmental concerns and proposed solutions.”

She serves on the Environmental Defense Fund’s board of directors as well. Heinz Kerry was awarded the 2003 Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarian for her work. She was included on PoliticsPA’s list of Pennsylvania’s Most Politically Influential Women in the same year. Teresa Heinz has received multiple honorary doctorates from universities all around the world.

Relationship

Henry John Heinz IV was born in 1966; Andre Thiersten Heinz was born in 1969; and Christopher Heinz was born in 1973. Teresa and Henry Heinz had three boys. Her breast cancer treatment status was made public in December 2009.

She mentioned having numerous lumpectomies and that she will be receiving radiation therapy. She displayed signs of a seizure in 2013 and was transported by EMS to Nantucket Cottage Hospital.

She was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital in critical condition for more medical care and testing, where doctors were able to rule out a heart attack, brain tumor, stroke, and other potential causes. She had outpatient care, was discharged, and then recovered at home.

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