Disney Maid’s Million-Dollar Stock

In 1951, Thelma Howard began working as a maid for Walt and Lillian Disney. Every Christmas for the next 30 years, Walt gifted her Disney stock. When she passed away in 1994, her estate revealed that she had retained all 192,000 shares-then valued at $9 million. Her fortune went to disadvantaged children and her disabled son.

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