Ruth Gottesman—the widow of billionaire Berkshire Hathaway investor David Gottesman—is donating $1 billion to cover tuition for students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she used to work as a professor.
Ruth Gottesman—who inherited the money when her husband investor David “Sandy” Gottesman died in September 2022— told the New York Times her husband left her a whole portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock with instructions that said “do whatever you think is right with it.”