Anne Hendricks Bass (born October 19, 1941) is an American investor, documentary filmmaker, philanthropist and art collector. She is the ex-wife of billionaire Sid Bass. He directed the 2010 documentary Dancing Across Borders. He is an art patron in New York City and Fort Worth, Texas.
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Anne Hendricks was born on October 19, 1941 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was a "successful Indianapolis surgeon" and urologist. His mother, a graduate of Vassar College, is "the mother of golf champion". He has a younger sister and brother.
He was educated at a public school in Indianapolis until 1957, when he was transferred to Tudor Hall School for Girls, a women's private school in Indianapolis now known as Taman Tudor School, graduating in 1959. He took ballet lessons as a child. He graduated from Vassar College in 1963, where he majored in Italian literature.
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Careers
After graduation, he was an executive trainee at Bonwit Teller, where he worked as a buyer partner. He later became the editor who contributed to Vogue .
Through his divorce, Bass became the owner of more than one million shares of The Walt Disney Company. He has been on the Forbes 400 list since 1989. He was worth about US $ 690 million in 2000.
Bass directed Dancing Across Borders , a documentary about dance released in February 2010. The documentary shows how Bass sponsored a teenager from Cambodia to attend the School of American Ballet and become a professional ballet dancer for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. The film plays at Quad Cinema in Manhattan. The New York Times suggests the documentary lacks "objective sound," because it is Bass who directs and produces films that show good intentions.
Philanthropy and art collection
Bass volunteered for the Junior League Fort Worth. He supports the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He also supported the Texas Ballet Theater, which he "saved from bankruptcy". He donated US $ 300,000 by himself, complemented by a US $ 250,000 donation from the Sid Richardson Foundation. In addition, he supports the Van Cliburn Foundation. He donates a charity to the State School, where he helps with the landscape of the field. She serves on the Jewel Charity Ball committee, benefiting the Children's Cook Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Bass served at the International Council of Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From 1980 to 2005, he served on the Board of Trustees of the New York City Ballad. She also supports the School of American Ballet. In addition, he has traveled with the World Monuments Fund.
Bass collects paintings by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Edgar Degas. He is the owner of Picasso's The Drawing Lesson .
Personal life
Bass met his first husband, Sid Bass, the heir of Texas oil fortune-teller, at a birthday party when Anne visited his cousin in Fort Worth; he was only nine years old. They started dating in college. Their wedding was held on June 26, 1965 at the Presbyterian church in Indianapolis, followed by a reception at Woodstock Country Club. They honeymooned in Europe. After living in Dallas for a year and Palo Alto, California for two years, they moved into a ranch-style estate overlooking the Trinity River. Later, they moved to a mansion in Deepdale Drive, Westover Hills, Texas designed in 1970 by architect Paul Rudolph with a land designed by British landscape architect Russell Page. They also live in an apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park in Manhattan, designed by Mark Hampton.
Sid and Anne have two daughters: Hyatt Anne Bass, an author, and Samantha Sims Bass, a photographer. When they divorced in 1988, he received US $ 200 million in the settlement, which was the largest ever in the state of Texas. She decided to keep the name of her ex-husband.
Bass was in the 960 Fifth Avenue apartment he'd received in his divorce settlement, and the house Rudolph had designed in Westover Hills. He also owns 1,000 acres of land in South Kent, Connecticut with his girlfriend, Julian Lethbridge, who is a painter. In 2007, they were both held hostage on the estate. Five years later, in 2012, her Romanian-born chaplain was sentenced to 20 years in prison for hostage situations, as she tried to blackmail millions from Bass.
Bass is described as "non-stop personally" by Texas Monthly . He likes to read novels by Edith Wharton.
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