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Businesswoman Mellody Hobson is married to filmmaker George Lucas. Lucas is worth $5.9 billion
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FILe - In this June 9, 2016 file photo, filmmaker George Lucas appears at the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams in Los Angeles.Lucas has given another $10 million to the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts to fund the student diversity program he helped establish. The donation was announced Monday by USC, Lucas’ alma mater. Last fall, USC established a foundation in Lucas’ name to support students from underrepresented communities who qualify for financial support. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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In this Jan. 16, 2014, photo George Lucas speaks in Singapore. For nearly a decade Lucas has been trying to build a museum for his extensive personal art collection. In January, the legendary filmmaker is expected to decide whether he will put the museum in San Francisco or Los Angeles, after other attempts were upended by community opposition. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2015 file photo, George Lucas attends a special screening of "Strange Magic" in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2011 file photo, football fans tailgate in a parking lot south of Soldier Field, in the background, before a Chicago Bears game in Chicago. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying to persuade “Star Wars” creator George Lucas to put his planned museum of art and movie memorabilia in Chicago and is offering up a slice of real estate along the Lake Michigan shorefront, meaning fans dressed up as Han Solo and Darth Vader might have to cross paths with rowdy Bears tailgaters. A competing bid from San Francisco seems a more natural fit: it’s Lucas’ hometown, it’s a premier center of technology and innovation and it’s closer to the nation’s movie-making heartland. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2013 file photo, filmmaker George Lucas and his wife, Chicago native Mellody Hobson, are seen on the red carpet at the 2013 Governors Awards in Los Angeles. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying to persuade the “Star Wars” creator to put his planned museum of art and movie memorabilia in Chicago and is offering up a slice of real estate along the Lake Michigan shorefront where it would be located. A competing bid from San Francisco seems a more natural fit: it’s Lucas’ hometown, it’s a premier center of technology and innovation and it’s closer to the nation’s movie-making heartland. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2013 file photo, filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson are seen on the red carpet at the 2013 Governors Awards in Los Angeles. The University of Chicago said Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, that Lucas and Hobson are donating $25 million to the prestigious private school. The grant from The George Lucas Family Foundation will pay for a new arts hall at the university's Laboratory Schools.(Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)
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Producer George Lucas attends the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel on Saturday, April 27, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Filmmaker George Lucas said he is moving forward with plans to build a park complete with a statue of Yoda and Indiana Jones in his Marin County hometown of San Anselmo, Calif. (Associated Press)
