Jennifer Ryan
Jennifer Sloan | |
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 Sloan in 2021. | |
| Born | Jennifer Emily Dunham October 24, 1988 Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
| Years active | 2018–present |
| Organization | Chief marketing officer, Sloan Enterprises |
| Title | Duchess of Moselle[a] |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Board member of | Sloan Foundation |
| Spouse(s) | Trent Dominguez [b](m. 2018; ann. 2018) William Sloan (m. 2018; div. 2021) Prince Leonardo, Duke of Moselle (m. 2022) |
| Children | 3; including Prince Julius of Cordonia |
| Parent(s) |
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| Relatives | Vega-Hayes family Cordonian royal family |
Jennifer Emily Sloan (née Dunham; born October 24, 1988) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and member of the Cordonian royal family. She is the heiress to the fortune of her late maternal grandmother Amelia Vega Hayes. The fortune a secret, Sloan and her siblings discovered Hayes' secret $500.12 million in the summer of 2018 and has since used her share for her husband's business interests and their nonprofit organization the Sloan Foundation. She and her ex-husband William Sloan have been recognized for their philanthropy which includes receiving the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and becoming a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Early life, family and inheritance
Sloan was born as Jennifer Emily Dunham on October 24, 1988 at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland, Oregon, United States, to Celina née Hayes, an educator, and Joseph Dunham, a mechanic. Her mother is of Filipino-American descent and her father an immigrant from the United Kingdom. Her maternal grandmother, Amelia née Vega, was Filipino and her maternal grandfather, Philip Hayes, was a Seattle native. In an interview, Sloan described herself as a "proud Filipino-American woman" and said that her maternal grandmother made sure to share her Filipino culture and Catholic faith. Though regarding her ancestry, Sloan has said she has "mixed feelings about my ethnic status and how I should identify" because of her light skin and not speaking Filipino.
She has an older brother, Jacob and two younger identical twin sisters, Josephine and Jessica. She and her siblings were raised as Catholic but did not attend Catholic school nor were raised with a strict Catholic upbringing. Their father was an electrician and their mother was a schoolteacher. From a young age, Sloan was interested in being a teacher like her mother, and often helped her younger sisters with homework and school activities. Sloan's family originally lived Northeast Portland and later moved to Vancouver, Washington, in the summer of 1995 to allow Jacob to finish elementary school in Portland and to be closer to her maternal grandparents. On September 2, 1998, Sloan's parents died in a traffic collision while traveling on Interstate 205 to pick her and her siblings up from school.
After her parent's death she and her siblings immediately moved in with Amelia and Philip. Amelia got legal guardianship of the children the next year and Sloan started attending Fort Vancouver High School in 2003. Sloan's grandfather later passed away in 2005 during her junior year from a heart attack. During high school she was interested in English and was active in the yearbook and photography clubs and graduated in 2007 with honors. She subsequently attended the University of Washington in Seattle, moving in summer 2007 to live in campus housing. Her brother Jacob was also studying at the same university. During her sophomore year, their grandmother died in her sleep from natural causes on November 26, 2008.
Sloan and Jacob immediately left Seattle to get their two minor sisters and subsequently took time off from school heal from the tragedy. The siblings initially lived in their grandmother's house right after her death in order to get guardianship of the siblings and to deal with their grandmother's house and estate while Jacob's wife Candace stayed in Seattle. At that time, they did not know about their grandmother's secret fortune. They sold the house in spring 2009 and Jacob used the funds to buy a modest house in Seattle for his wife and siblings, leaving Vancouver at the end of Josephine and Jessica's sophomore year. Sloan then went back to school while taking on a maternal role, graduating from the university in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in marketing. She worked at Microsoft as an associate marketing director and director of social media. Josephine and Jessica graduated in 2010 and Sloan moved out of Jacob and Candace's house into her own apartment with Josephine. Jessica would relocate to Eugene, Oregon, to live on campus at the University of Oregon.
Since the family moved from Vancouver, they faced personal struggles. Sloan began a relationship with Microsoft employee Trent Dominguez in 2012 in an on-again, off-again relationship which took a toll on Sloan. Though her romantic relationship improved, her siblings also faced personal struggles. This cumulated in a vacation of the Ember of the Sea cruise ship sailing from Miami, Florida to Europe in June 2018. Sloan went with her siblings, along with her boyfriend Dominguez. During the first week of the trip, Sloan caught Dominguez's infidelity and ended the relationship. Sloan's maternal grandmother's former attorney, Dinesh Singh, arrived on board to reveal to them Amelia's secret fortune. He previously was her personal attorney when she filed for guardianship for her grandchildren and built a friendship with Singh. After Amelia discovered the secret fortune in 2005, she named Singh her executor.
Singh revealed the will to Sloan and her siblings and were reportedly shocked with Jessica fainting. Sloan later said in her memoir that it was "a bizarre will" because their grandmother required them to complete certain tasks before getting their part of the estate. Sloan's requirement was to be married by the end of the summer. With her recent break up, Sloan didn't think she could meet the requirement. The fortune was revealed to be $US500 million and split among them and their cousin, Victoria Hampton-Chavez. Due to the nature of the will and the large amount of money that was kept secret for so long, news broke in August 2018 and became an international story. It was named Time's largest news story of the year.
In 2018, Dunham married billionaire business magnate in the port of London after their voyage on MV Viking Sea. They have two children: William II and Judah. In late 2021, Sloan and her husband divorced in Marin County Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences. Sloan went on to marry Cordonian Prince Leonardo, Duke of Moselle. The Cordonian royal family announced the marriage took place January 1, 2022 and addressed her as The Duchess of Moselle.[a] Sloan gave birth to a son, Prince Julius of Cordonia, on October 29, 2022.
Business interests and philanthropy
Awards and recognition
Bibliography
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sloan stated on Twitter that her legal name has remained the same after marriage to the Duke of Moselle and that she does not use the title Duchess of Moselle. The title of duchess is only used formally within the context of the Cordonian royal family.[2]
- ↑ The marriage was annulled as Sloan was deceived into signing the marriage license under the impression it was a loan contract modification with her ex-finance. The court of Lythikos annulled the marriage.
References
- ↑ Template:Cite tweet
- ↑ "The Duke and Duchess of Moselle announced pregnancy". Cordonian Royal Press. 15 January 2022.
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke of Moselle and The Duchess of Moselle, aka Mrs. Jennifer Sloan, has with great news announced that they are expecting a child at the end of 2022.