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American businessman and sports team owner (born 1942)
Arthur Morris Blank is an American businessman. He co-founded the home improvement retailer The Home Depot.
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Blank is chairman of The Arthur Blank Family Foundation, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Emory University. In March 2020, Blank's foundation announced it would donate nearly $5.4 million to aid the coronavirus pandemic response in Georgia and Montana. In October 2020, the Arthur M. Blank Foundation awarded a $20 million legacy grant to establish the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research at the University of Texas at Austin. In October 2020, it was announced that the new Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospital would be named after Arthur Blank after his foundation donated $200 million to the project. The Arthur M. Blank Hospital opened on September 29, 2024. He is a signatory of The Giving Pledge, committing himself to give away at least 50% of his wealth to charitable causes.
Blank has been married and divorced three times. He has three children with his first wife, Diana Blank. They divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Stephanie V. Blank (born 1968), a Blowing Rock, North Carolina native and Appalachian State University graduate. They met when she worked as a designer at a Home Depot store in Atlanta. They had three children before being divorced. In June 2016, Blank married Angela Macuga (born 1968), who had three children from a previous marriage. They announced their pending divorce on January 1, 2019. Blank owns Mountain Sky Guest Ranch and West Creek Ranch outside Yellowstone National Park in Paradise Valley, Montana. He also owns a 90-meter (300 ft), $180 million superyacht named with Blank's initials, dreAMBoat, as well as several PGA TOUR Superstores. On February 9, 2016, Blank disclosed that he had treatable prostate cancer. On March 17, 2016, Blank announced that he was cancer-free following treatment.
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