Wilma Tisch

With Joan Tisch controls family fortune built by their late husbands, famed investors Preston and Laurence Tisch. Duo started with small New Jersey hotel 1946. Acquired Loews Theatres 1959. Today publicly traded Loews Corp. holding company includes diverse assortment of investments: oil drilling (Diamond Offshore), natural gas pipelines (Boardwalk), insurance (CNA). Sold Bulova watch group to Citizen for $250 million in January; spun off cigarette maker Lorillard (Newport, Kent) to Carolina Group last December. Loews stock down 9% in the past 12 months.