James Cox Chambers
{{short description|American billionaire heir}}
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| name = James Cox Chambers
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| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |58|2015|11|20}}
| birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia, US{{Cite web|url=https://www.communitiesinschools.org/about-us/our-leadership/profile/james-cox-chambers|title=Our National Leadership - Communities In Schools|website=www.communitiesinschools.org}}
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| education = Bard College
| occupation = Renewable energy entrepreneur, biodynamic farmer, and filmmaker
| known for = 16.3% share in Cox Enterprises
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Lauren Hamilton|1982|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Nabila Khashoggi|2004}}
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| parents = Robert W. Chambers
Anne Cox Chambers
| children = 2, including Fergie
| relatives = James M. Cox (grandfather)
Katharine Rayner (half-sister)
Margaretta Taylor (half-sister)
Barbara Cox Anthony (aunt)
James C. Kennedy (first cousin)
Blair Parry-Okeden (first cousin)
Margaret Hamilton (former-mother-in-law)
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{{For|his son, James Cox Chambers Jr.|Fergie Chambers}}
James Cox Chambers (born 1956/57) is an American billionaire heir, renewable energy businessman, and filmmaker. As of May 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$4.7 billion.{{cite web |title=Forbes profile: James Chambers |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/james-chambers/ |website=Forbes |accessdate=1 May 2022}}
Early life
Chambers is the son of Anne Cox Chambers, the former US Ambassador to Belgium,{{Cite web|title=Our National Leadership - Communities In Schools|url=https://www.communitiesinschools.org/about-us/our-leadership/profile/james-cox-chambers|access-date=2021-07-04|website=www.communitiesinschools.org|language=en}} and the grandson of newspaper publisher, three-time Governor of Ohio, and 1920 Democratic nominee for President James M. Cox. He has two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage, Katharine Ann Johnson and Margaretta Johnson. He graduated from Bard College in 1982.{{cite web|url=http://www.communitiesinschools.org/about/our-leadership/profile/james-cox-chambers |title=James Cox Chambers |publisher=Communities In Schools |date= |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}
Career
Chambers is a renewable energy businessman, biodynamic farmer{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=June 2024}}, and filmmaker. Chambers is a co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks,{{Cite web|last=Willis|first=Kris|date=2015-12-04|title=Who owns the Atlanta Hawks?|url=https://www.peachtreehoops.com/2015/12/4/9848388/atlanta-hawks-owners-tony-ressler-grant-hill|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Peachtree Hoops|language=en}} publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, and Atlanta Journal newspapers. Chambers also resides on the Board of Trustees of Bard College as Chair{{Cite web|last=College|first=Bard|title=Bard College Commencement 2021 at Bard College|url=https://www.bard.edu/commencement/|access-date=2021-07-04|website=www.bard.edu|language=en}} and is on the board of directors for the Communities in Schools. Chambers appeared in the 1984 film Alphabet City.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb1ecbdab |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423210847/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb1ecbdab |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 23, 2016 |title=James Cox Chambers |publisher=BFI |date= |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}
Wealth
In 2015, his mother Anne Cox Chambers distributed her 49% share in Cox Enterprises equally among her three children.{{cite web|author=Brendan Coffey |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-20/three-new-cox-billionaires-minted-as-matriarch-gives-away-wealth |title=Three Cox Billionaires Minted as Matriarch Gives Away Wealth - Bloomberg Business |website=Bloomberg.com |date=November 20, 2015 |accessdate=March 1, 2016}} As of June 2018, his net worth is $6.3 billion.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2016/03/01/new-billionaires-2016/#2f1c2cb519ac|title=Here Are The 198 New Billionaires Of 2016|author=|date=|website=Forbes.com|accessdate=March 1, 2016}}
Personal life
In 1982, Chambers married fellow Bard College alumna and actress Lauren Hamilton, who is the daughter of NASA scientist, mathematician and computer pioneer Margaret Hamilton and James Cox Hamilton, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/10/style/lauren-hamilton-actress-is-married-in-new-york-to-james-cox-chambers.html |title=Lauren Hamilton, Actress, Is Married In New York to James Cox Chambers |website=The New York Times |date=October 10, 1982 |accessdate=July 21, 2016}} They have a son, James "Jim" Cox Chambers Jr., also known as Fergie, who describes himself as a communist and a "professional revolutionary".{{Cite magazine |last=Peisner |first=David |date=2024-03-24 |title=Fergie Chambers is Heir to One of America's Richest Families -- and Determined to See the U.S. Fall |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fergie-chambers-cox-enterprises-heir-overthrow-us-1234983156/ |access-date=2024-03-24 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}
In 2004, Chambers married Nabila Khashoggi, daughter of billionaire Adnan Khashoggi.{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/bardian/docs/fall_11_4_low_res/52|title=Fall Bardian 2016|date=November 23, 2016 |publisher=|accessdate=July 15, 2018}} They have a son and live in Palisades, New York, US.
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External links
- {{IMDb name|150346}}
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Category:American billionaires