Phillip & Patricia Frost

CATEGORY: Power Couples, Billioniares
Company: Teva
INDUSTRY: Pharmaceuticals
What Makes Them Haute : Frost sold his pharmaceutical company for $7.6 billion to Teva in 2005, where he now sits as Chairman. He also owns a 45% stake in Opko Health. Patricia served as chair of the Smithsonian National Board. The couple is a huge supporter of the arts, evidenced by their recordbreaking $33 million donation to the University of Miami that led to finance the Frost School of Music. The couple’s additional donation to Florida International University resulted in a renaming of the school’s art museum, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. Adding to their list of eponymous museums is the new Miami Science Museum, which was dubbed the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, thanks to a $35 million donation by the philanthropic couple.

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