Founder of the Norton Simon Museum Founder of Hunt's Foods, owner of Hunt's Ketchup, Tanqueray Gin
Political party
Republican
Board member of
Hunt's Foods
Spouses
Lucille Ellis
(m. 1933; div. 1970)
Jennifer Jones
(m. 1971)
Children
2
Norton Winfred Simon (February 5, 1907 – June 2, 1993) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was at one time one of the wealthiest men in America.[1] At the time of his death, he had amassed a net worth of nearly US$10 billion.
Simon was born to a Jewish family in Portland, Oregon. His father operated a wholesale goods store there. When Simon was sixteen years old, he relocated with his family from Portland to San Francisco following his mother's death. After dropping out of the University of California, Berkeley, Simon founded a sheet metal company before investing in an insolvent orange juice bottling plant in Fullerton, California. The company was renamed Val Vita Food Products Company, and, under Simon's supervision, expanded its product line to include numerous other fruit and vegetable products. The company was eventually sold by Simon to Hunt's Foods, after which Simon retired in 1969.
He spent his later years serving in philanthropic and non-profit roles, acting as a regent on the boards of the University of California and Reed College, as well as the Los Angeles Music Center, the California School of Professional Psychology, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Simon amassed a significant art collection that is housed in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. After his death in 1993 Simon's second wife, actress Jennifer Jones, remained an emeritus director of the Museum until her death in 2009.
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was president and CEO when in 1973 the company agreed to merge with NortonSimon. This event was marred weeks later by the sudden death of Alfred Jay...
(1955). After Selznick's death in 1965, Jones married industrialist NortonSimon and entered semiretirement. She made her final film appearance in The...
McCall Corporation and Hunt Foods, to form NortonSimon Inc. Dr Pepper bought Canada Dry from NortonSimon in 1982. In 1984, Dr Pepper was acquired by...
Corotà Sainte-Adresse and Courbet Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, 1865, NortonSimon Foundation, Pasadena, California; indicates the influence of Dutch maritime...
(also known as Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. and Talent Associates-NortonSimon, Inc.), was a production company headed by David Susskind, later joined...
married Alvin Toffel, a political campaign manager and president of the NortonSimon Museum; they were married until Toffel's death in 2005. The "California...
the company to Hunt-Wesson Foods, a division of NortonSimon, Inc. In 1983, Esmark purchased NortonSimon, which in turn was acquired by Beatrice Foods...
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postage stamp dedicated to Halston. In 1973, Halston sold his line to NortonSimon, Inc. for $16 million but remained its principal designer. This afforded...
High Renaissance painter Raphael, executed c. 1503. It is housed in the NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena, California. List of paintings by Raphael nortonsimon...
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former Citibank workout banker, after the two met and worked together at NortonSimon Inc. They created a professional services firm focused on turnaround...
residing in prominent museums, such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the NortonSimon Museum, and the Moderna Museet. Without any actual modifications by the...
1860–1862, National Gallery, London Woman Getting out of the Bath, 1877, NortonSimon Museum, Pasadena After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, c. 1884–1886,...
Ackland Art Museum, Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum in Antwerp, The NortonSimon Museum of Art, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Musée...
Angeles County Museum of Art and a 1931 bronze cast is housed at the NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena, California. Another bronze of unknown casting date...
by John McKay in 1978, and the phrase was coined by John Conway and Simon P. Norton in 1979. The monstrous moonshine is now known to be underlain by a...
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