November 6, 2009

Chewing-gum heir and Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Co. Chairman Bill Wrigley, Jr. lists Chicago penthouse for $14M and also just officially listed his Lake Forest, IL mansion for $14.5M; in April, he paid $11M for a mansion in North Palm Beach, FL and paid $11.53M in May for land in Aspen, CO

Check out Bob’s column (already available online) from this coming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, breaking the story that chewing-gum heir and Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Co. Chairman Bill Wrigley, Jr. just placed his unfinished Chicago penthouse on the market for $14,000,000, making it Chicago’s highest-priced residential listing. Wrigley also just officially placed his mansion in Lake Forest, Ill. on the market for $14,500,000 after previously having it for sale privately for $16,000,000. Bob also breaks the news that Wrigley paid $11,000,000 in April through an LLC company for a mansion on Lake Worth Lagoon in North Palm Beach, Fla. And, Wrigley paid $11,530,000 through a different LLC company in May for some land in Aspen, Col.

Also featured: former Chicago Bears and current Houston Texans quarterback Rex Grossman reduces the asking price of his 2,437-square-foot, 36th-floor unit in Chicago’s Trump International Hotel & Tower from $2,350,000 to $2,295,000.

Filed under Celebrity Homes, Movers & Shakers, Sport Stars by Bob Goldsborough

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December 7, 2009

marie hitchen @ 12:18 pm

hi my daughters are wrigleys and i believe that a few years ago they were searching for heirs to the estate and wonder if my daughters are possible heirs ?their late grandfather was edgar wrigley an ex british intelligence service man who was always very proud to be a wrigley he said that it was his great great grandfather that had founded wrigleys chewing gum does anyone know if their is any truth in this?

yours sincerely
marie hitchen

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