Abigail Disney continues to speak out on financial inequities.
The 65-year-old heiress, who is the granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, who co-founded the Walt Disney Co. with his brother Walt Disney in 1923, is expressing her concerns, beginning with how money is impacting American democracy, owing in part to President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
“I am of the belief that every billionaire who can’t live on $999 million is kind of a sociopath,” she told The Guardian in an interview published Monday, April 7. “Like, why? You know, over a billion dollars generates money so quickly that it is nearly hard to get rid of.”
She went on to say, “So simply sitting on your hands makes you a billionaire, and then a double billionaire. It’s an unusual way to live when you have objectively more money than you can spend.
The mother of four began giving away her inheritance in her early twenties, and by 2021, she had contributed $70 million to a range of women’s causes, including groups that assist victims of domestic abuse, according to The Guardian.
She has already called out individuals who use their riches to get access to power and are solely concerned about themselves.
“As an American, I am grief-stricken by the havoc that moral and spiritual corrosion is capable of wreaking when they sink their teeth into a democracy,” Disney said in a February speech at a Vatican summit.
In her speech, Disney portrayed herself as a beneficiary of the American” Dream—”only because of some quirks in the tax system, some good luck, and some very loving grandparents.” “But nothing else.”
As for Trump, the outspoken Disney has received some recognition.
“We all laughed and said he was stupid, but obviously he’s not,” she told The Guardian. “In the nineteenth century, he would have sold a lot of snake oil.” He arrived just at the appropriate time. And he delivered an excellent performance. “You have to give it to him.”
Disney’s statements about her own fortune are not the first she’s made.
In 2024, she expressed sorrow for flying solo in her family’s own Boeing 737 and promised to be more ecologically aware.
“Nearly two decades ago, I used the jet to fly alone from California to New York,” she said in a piece titled “Proud to Pay More.”
“As I strapped myself onto the aircraft’s queen-sized bed for some shut-eye, I had an uncomfortable epiphany: ‘This was wrong,'” said the woman. ” “As I crossed the continental US, I was dumping untold amounts of toxins and pollutants into the air, and for no other reason besides my own selfish convenience.”