Dorothy Wellburn Green
Born(1906-09-19)September 19, 1906
DiedSeptember 4, 1990(1990-09-04) (aged 83)
Resting placeHoly Cross Cemetery
EducationMarlborough School
Occupation(s)Philanthropist, Thoroughbred owner/breeder
Parents
RelativesOlin Wellborn (maternal grandfather)

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

Early life

Dorothy Wellborn Green was born on 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

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Myrna Oliver, Philanthropist 'Dolly' Green; Heiress Owned Thoroughbreds, Los Angeles Times, September 05, 1990
  2. 1 2 Marc Wanamaker, Early Beverly Hills, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005, pp. 17-18
  3. Dolly Green Research Foundation
  4. 1 2 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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