Dolly Green

Dolly Green (September 19, 1906 – September 4, 1990) was an American heiress, philanthropist and thoroughbred owner.

Dorothy Wellburn Green
Born (1906-09-19) September 19, 1906
Los Angeles, California, USA
DiedSeptember 4, 1990(1990-09-04) (aged 83)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Resting placeHoly Cross Cemetery
EducationMarlborough School
OccupationPhilanthropist, Thoroughbred owner/breeder
Parent(s)Burton E. Green
Lillian (Wellburn) Green
RelativesOlin Wellborn (maternal grandfather)

Early life

Dorothy Wellborn Green was born in September 19, 1906 to Burton E. Green (1868-1965), oilman and co-founder of Beverly Hills, California, and Lillian Wellborn.[1][2] Her maternal grandfather was Judge Olin Wellborn (1848-1921).[2] In 1979, she inherited part of the $3.6-billion sale of her father's Belridge Oil Company to Shell Oil Co..[1] She graduated from the Marlborough School.[1] She later served on the Board of Trustees of the Burton E. Green Foundation.[1]

Thoroughbreds and philanthropy

Green spent US$2.2 million for five yearlings at a horse sale at the Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky in 1980.[1] Later, she owned seventy-four thoroughbreds. In 1984, she established the Dolly Green Equine Research Lab of the Southern California Equine Foundation at the Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California.[1] In 1986 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California her horse Brave Raj won the US$1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and would later be voted the Eclipse Award for American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.[1] The Dolly Green Research Foundation, affiliated with the Southern California Equine Foundation, ranks as the second-largest private foundation dedicated to research on equine health issues.[3] She socialized with Leslie Combs II, owner of Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.[4]

Green started the Dolly Green Scholars Award at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute.[1] She was a former member of the Los Angeles Junior League and the Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Orphanage Guild.[1]

Personal life and death

Green resided in Bel Air, Los Angeles.[1] She was a billionaire, and one of the richest people in California.[1][4] She died on September 4, 1990 and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.[1]

References
  1. Myrna Oliver, Philanthropist 'Dolly' Green; Heiress Owned Thoroughbreds, The Los Angeles Times, September 05, 1990
  2. Marc Wanamaker, Early Beverly Hills, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005, pp. 17-18
  3. Dolly Green Research Foundation
  4. Anne Hagedorn Auerbach, Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty, New York City: Macmillan Publishers, 2010, p. 109
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