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Nancy Walton Laurie is the daughter of the late Bud Walton, the brother and business partner of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. At Bud's death, she and her sister Ann Walton Kroenke inherited a stake in Wal-Mart now worth over $6 billion.
She and her husband Bill, major contributors to the University of Missouri despite neither having attended the school, were recently caught up in a scandal surrounding the naming of the school's new basketball arena. They had made a $25 million naming rights gift that went to the funding of the arena, and named the facility Paige Sports Arena after their daughter, Elizabeth Paige Laurie.
After Paige graduated from USC in 2004, a former roommate charged that she had been paid $20,000 over four years to do Paige's homework for her. Once the charges were aired on the ABC news program 20/20, the elder Lauries stripped their daughter's name from the facility, which is now known as Mizzou Arena.
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