Angela Bennett

Angela Bennett
Born	circa 1945 (age 69–70)
Occupation	Mining heiress
Net worth	A$1.55 bn (2014 BRW)[1] US$1.01 bn (2014 Forbes)[2]
Children	Seven
Relatives	Michael Wright (brother, 1937–2012)

Angela Bennett (born circa 1945^[1][2]) is an Australian mining heiress and businesswoman.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Biography

Her late father, Peter Wright, co-founded Hancock Prospecting and Wright Prospecting with the late Lang Hancock, who was Gina Rinehart's father. Her late brother was Michael Wright (1937-2012), the owner of the Voyager Estate winery in Margaret River.^[2][3]

She heads Wright Prospecting.^[5] In 2010, she and her brother received A$1 billion from Gina Rinehart after she was legally forced to give up twenty-five per cent in the Rhodes Ridges iron ore mine 60 km west of Newman in the Pilbara.^[3][4] She owns fifteen per cent of Hamersley Iron shares from the Rio Tinto Group, Gina Rinehart owning the other fifty per cent.^[2] In September 2012, she sued Rinehart to recover fifty per cent of 4, 5 and 6 tenements of the Hope Downs mine, named after Gina Rinehart's late mother, Hope Hancock.^[5][6][7]

Personal life

She is married, and has seven children.^[6] She is the second richest woman in Australia, after Gina Rinehart.^[6][8] In 2014, the Business Review Weekly assessed Bennett's net worth at A$1.55 billion.^[1] In September 2009, she sold her mansion in the Mosman Park neighbourhood of Perth for A$57.5 million and downsized to a A$8 million apartment in Fremantle.^[6][9][10] In 2010, she sold her A$20 million yacht.^[6][10]

Her son, Todd Bennett, was appointed to the Board of Directors of Apex Mineral in 2008, but he no longer sits on it as of 2012.^[8][11] He also sat on the Board of the Finance and Energy Exchange.^[8]

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