Wallis Huberta Annenberg (born July 15, 1939) is an American philanthropist and heiress. Annenberg serves as President and Chairman of the Board of The Annenberg Foundation, a multibillion-dollar philanthropic organization in the United States.Wallis Annenberg was born on July 15, 1939 in Philadelphia, the daughter of publishing magnate, Walter Hubert Annenberg, and his first wife, Bernice Veronica Dunkelman (known as Ronny), a socialite from a Toronto, Canada, family. Her family was Jewish. Her father owned a 15-acre (61,000 m2) estate called Inwood, where Wallis was raised. When she was ten years old, her parents divorced and her mother moved to Washington, D.C. to marry Ben Ourisman, a Chevrolet car dealer. Meanwhile, her father remarried in the year after the divorce to Leonore "Lee" Cohn, the niece of Columbia Pictures' President, Harry Cohn. Wikipedia