United States billionaire Jody Allen is within the highlight amid the Seattle Seahawks’ efficiency within the Tremendous Bowl, and stories that she plans to promote the Nationwide Soccer League (NFL) crew and donate the proceeds to charity.
The crew nabbed the Lombardi trophy after a decisive 29-13 victory over the New England Patriots on 8 February. Sources instructed Fortune that Allen’s look on the Tremendous Bowl victory ceremony watched by 120 million is probably going going to be her final. They added that she plans to promote the NFL crew and donate the proceeds to charity.
Who’s Jody Allen and her household?
As per the Fortune report, 67-year-old Jody Allen is chair and trustee of the Seattle Seahawks and the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation crew Portland Path Blazers — each she inherited from her late brother and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Paul Allen, who had no partner or youngsters, handed away in 2018 after battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was value round $20 billion on the time. The tech billionaire was credited with saving and reviving his hometown NFL crew, the Seahawks, which he purchased it in 1997 for $197 million.
For the reason that inheritance, Jody Allen has targeted on philanthropic endeavours (largely within the Pacific Northwest, the place they grew up) in arts, training and setting, by means of her and her brother’s charity organisation, it added.
The Allen Household Philanthropies (previously Paul G. Allen Household Basis) was co-founded by the siblings in 1988 when Jody was 29. Other than her household charity, Jody is cofounder and chair of a Seattle-based bioscience analysis nonprofit, the Allen Institute, and serves as founding director of Seattle’s Museum of Pop Tradition.
Why hypothesis over the sale of property for charity?
Notably, Paul Allen’s will stipulated that his property, together with the Seahawks, Path Blazers and 25% stake within the MLS’s Seattle Sounders—be bought to fund his charitable foundations, the Fortune report added.
Now, Jody is seemingly shifting to meet the identical — the Allen property in September 2025, entered a proper settlement to promote the Path Blazers for an estimated $4 billion, as per the report. Reuters reported that there’s additionally buzz round Seahawks sale publish the Tremendous Bowl.
When requested in regards to the Seahawks, a spokesperson for the property instructed Fortune that there aren’t any related plans at current, however “that can change sooner or later.” In 2022 when related hypothesis arose, Jody in a press launch refuted the transfer saying that “estates of this dimension and complexity can take 10 to twenty years to wind down. There is no such thing as a preordained timeline by which the groups have to be bought. Till then, my focus—and that of our groups—is on successful.”
In a press release to Reuters forward of the Tremendous Bowl, a membership spokesman mentioned: “We do not touch upon rumors or hypothesis, and the crew is just not on the market. We have already mentioned that can change sooner or later per Paul’s needs, however I’ve no information to share. Our focus proper now could be successful the Tremendous Bowl (accomplished as of Sunday) and finishing the sale of the Portland Path Blazers within the coming months.”
What’s Jody Allen’s internet value?
In keeping with a report by Spanish publication Marca, Jody Allen’s actual internet value is tough to estimate as she is a personal particular person dealing with a fancy and big property, together with her late brother’s property.
It cited knowledge from enterprise insider 1075TheFan.com to peg her private internet value at round $20 billion. The insider additionally positioned the Allen property on the prime 4 when it comes to internet value amongst NFL house owners.