Robert Kraft Biography
Robert Kraft is a multibillionaire American businessman. He leads the Kraft Group, a diverse holding firm with interests in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development, and a private equity portfolio.
How old is Robert Kraft? – Age
He is 80 years years old as of 5 June 2021. He was born in 1941 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.
Robert Kraft Family
He was born to Sarah Bryna (Webber) and Harry Kraft, a dressmaker in Boston’s Chinatown. His mother was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and his father, a lay leader at Brookline’s Congregation Kehillath Israel, wished for his son to become a rabbi. The Krafts were a family of Modern Orthodox Jews. Robert graduated from Brookline High School after attending the Edward Devotion School. He used to sell newspapers outside of Braves Field in Boston when he was a kid. He was unable to engage in most sports during high school because it interfered with his after-school Hebrew studies and Sabbath devotion.
Robert Kraft Education
Kraft received an academic scholarship to Columbia University and served as class president. He was a member of the freshmen and lightweight football teams and played tennis. He also lived in Carman Hall at the time. In June 1963, he married Myra Hiatt, whom he met at a delicatessen in Boston’s Back Bay in 1962. In the same year, he graduated from Columbia and obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Robert Kraft Wife – Wife’s Death
Kraft married Myra Nathalie Hiatt, a 1964 Brandeis University graduate and the daughter of Worcester, Massachusetts businessman and philanthropist Jacob Hiatt, in June 1963. On July 20, 2011, she died of ovarian cancer at the age of 68. The Krafts were members of Newton, Massachusetts’ Temple Emanuel. Throughout the 2011 season, a patch with Kraft’s initials (MHK) was worn on the Patriots’ uniform jersey.
How old is Kraft’s girlfriend? – New Wife
Kraft began dating actress Ricki Noel Lander in June 2012. In the fall of 2017, Lander gave birth to a child. When the child’s birth was reported in May 2018, Kraft denied fatherhood. Later that year, Kraft and Lander called it quits. Tommy Hilfiger announced that Kraft and his partner, Dana Blumberg, were engaged on March 5th, 2022 at the inaugural amfAR Gala Palm Beach event.
Robert Kraft Children
He has four sons with his late wife; Jonathan A. Kraft, president of The Kraft Group and the New England Patriots, Daniel A. Kraft, president of International Forest Products, which his father founded in 1972, Joshua M. Kraft, president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, and David H. Kraft, former director at The Kraft Group.
Robert Kraft Israel and Jewish
In partnership with the Center for Jewish Progress of Greater Boston (CJP), Myra and Robert Kraft established the Passport to Israel Fund in 1989 to assist parents in sending their adolescent children to Israel. Kraft donated $11.5 million in 2000 to build the Columbia/Hillel, which is made of the same Jerusalem white stone.
Supporting American Football in Israel, including the Kraft Family Stadium in Jerusalem and the Kraft Family Israel Football League, is one of their most distinguishing endeavors. In 2017, Kraft pledged $6 million toward the construction of Israel’s first regulation-sized American football field. Robert Kraft and other NFL Hall of Famers visited to Israel in June 2017 to celebrate the grand launch of the new Kraft Family Sports Campus.
Since the 2017 trip, Kraft has led numerous “Touchdown in Israel” visits to Israel with Patriots and Hall of Famers. Following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting at Tree of Life in December 2018, Kraft paid his thoughts and attended prayers with the congregation before the Patriots faced the Steelers the next day in a game.
Kraft gave CJP $10 million for the restoration of its headquarters in downtown Boston in 2018. In 2019, Kraft and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich co-hosted Final Whistle on Hate, a soccer match between the New England Revolution and Chelsea F.C. to collect money to eradicate antisemitism. Kraft himself contributed $1 million to the charity, which raised an estimated $4 million. Kraft was awarded Israel’s coveted Genesis Prize in June 2019, a $1 million prize given to an individual who is committed to Jewish ideals and serves as an inspiration to the future generation of Jews. At the Jerusalem event, Kraft announced a $20 million investment to establish a foundation to combat antisemitism and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Kraft has conducted 27 missions to Israel as of 2019.
Robert Kraft Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $8.3B.
How much does Robert Kraft make a year?
He makes an annual income of around $172 million.
Robert Kraft American football
Kraft has supported the Patriots since the team relocated to Schaefer Stadium in 1971. He purchased a 10-year option on Foxboro Raceway, a horse track next to the stadium, in 1985. The Sullivans were unable to hold non-Patriot events at the racetrack when races were being held as a result of this transaction. To buy the stadium from Sullivan for $22 million in 1988, Kraft outbid several bidders. The team’s purchase by Kraft was contentious at the time, but it has proven profitable since.
In exchange for the rights to appoint Bill Belichick as head coach, Kraft gave a draft pick to the New York Jets in 2000. In 2007, Kraft began construction of a $375 million open-air shopping and entertainment facility around Gillette Stadium. The Patriots have won 19 AFC East titles during Kraft’s ownership, including all but three since 2001 and 11 in a row from 2009 to 2019. Out of “respect and admiration” for the Russian people and Putin’s leadership, Kraft presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with his third Super Bowl ring in 2005. When former Patriot Ryan O’Callaghan came out as gay in 2017, Kraft said he supported him.
Robert Kraft Politics
At the age of 27, Kraft was chosen chairman of the Newton Democratic City Committee. He pondered running against Representative Philip J. Philbin in 1970, but decided against it due to the loss of privacy and burden politics would have put on his family. The suicide of his buddy, State Representative H. James Shea, Jr., further discouraged him from entering politics.