Woody Johnson
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Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947) is an American businessman who is currently the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
He is Robert Wood Johnson's great-grandson (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson).
He and his brother, Christopher, are the owners of the New York Jets of the National Football League.
Early life, family, and education
Johnson is the heir to Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical empire, which was established by his great-grandfather, Robert Wood Johnson I. Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, and the son of Betty (Wold) and Robert Wood Johnson III, who was president of Johnson & Johnson for four years. Johnson grew up with four siblings, Keith Johnson, Billy Johnson, Elizabeth "Libet" Johnson, and Christopher Wold Johnson, both from northern New Jersey, who attended the Millbrook School. Johnson & Johnson both worked in summer jobs.
Johnson graduated from the University of Arizona.
Personal life
Nancy Sale Johnson, a former fashion model, married Johnson in 1977. They had three children before divorcing in 2001. Casey Johnson died of diabetic ketoacidosis in early 2010. After his daughter Jaime was discovered to have lupus, he established the Alliance for Lupus Research.
In 2009, Johnson married Suzanne Ircha Johnson, a former actress and equities managing director at Sandler O'Neill & Partners. They have two children. Suzanne's father immigrated from Ternopil, Ukraine, after World War II, and her mother, a first-generation Ukrainian. She grew up in Greenwich Village, Ukraine.
Johnson has homes in Bedminster Township, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York City. Since 2020, Johnson has resided in Palm Beach, Florida.
Career
Johnson bought the New York Jets for $635 million, the third-highest price for a professional sports team and the highest for a New York professional sports team. Johnson turned down the bid of $612 million made by Charles Dolan, the owner of the Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks, and the New York Rangers, who refused. Forbes estimated the team at $3.2 billion as of September 2019.
Johnson revealed plans to transfer the Jets to the proposed West Side Stadium in Manhattan after buying them. However, Johnson revealed that the Jets would play in a new Meadowlands Stadium as an equal partner with the Giants following the project's demise in 2005. MetLife acquired the new stadium on April 10, 2010.
Johnson served as a member of the eight-man NFL search committee, selecting a replacement for Paul Tagliabue as the NFL commissioner.
In 2017, Johnson took over as CEO and acting owner, while Johnson was the US ambassador to the United Kingdom. Woody Johnson resigned as Jets chairman in 2021 after returning to the United States, while Christopher Johnson became vice chairman.
Johnson expressed his admiration for working with coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas, who he praised in June 2021. In 2021, he expressed excitement about assembling a winning squad, after the Jets had suffered setbacks during his absence.
Johnson made a £2 billion bid to buy Chelsea F.C. in March 2022. Roman Abramovich, a punished billionaire, has been banned from doing so. When serving as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, he became a fan of the football team. His knowledge of London and sports administration was supposed to give him an edge over Saudi Media Group, another party interested in purchasing the team. He was not longer involved in the bidding for Chelsea F.C. on March 25, according to reports.
Johnson, chairman and chief executive of The Johnson Company, Inc., a private investment firm, was based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Johnson was encouraged to testify before the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations into his contribution to a tax avoidance program in August 2006. According to a Senate report, Johnson, as well as others, was able to buy for very little fees, about $2 billion in capital loss, which they used to erase tax gains from stock sales. As a result, the US Treasury lost $300 million in revenue. Johnson said in a tweet that his lawyers had notified him that the transaction "was in accordance with the Tax Code." Johnson in 2006, after the Internal Revenue Service challenged that view in 2003, he negotiated with the IRS and agreed to pay 100% of the tax due to a plus interest.
Johnson was the chairman of the Pre-Commissioning Unit for the San Antonio-class ship USS New York.
Johnson is the billionaire heir to Johnson & Johnson's fortune. In March 2022, his net worth was estimated at $5.7 billion.