Ed Bass
Ed Bass | |
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| Born | Edward Perry Bass September 10, 1945 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupations | Philanthropist, Environmentalist |
| Spouses | Vicki Skinner Bass
(m. 1995; div. 2016)Sasha Camacho Bass (m. 2018) |
| Parent(s) | Perry Richardson Bass Nancy Lee Bass |
| Relatives | Robert Bass (brother) Sid Bass (brother) Lee Bass (brother) Hyatt Bass (niece) Sid W. Richardson (great-uncle) |
Edward Perry "Ed" Bass (born September 10, 1945) is an American businessman, financier, philanthropist and environmentalist who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. He financed the Biosphere 2 project, an artificial closed ecological system, which was built between 1987 and 1991. He is the chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm in Fort Worth, and chairman of the board of directors of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, a philanthropic organization. He was listed as #239 on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2012, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.