Nancy Shevell Net Worth

What Is Nancy Shevell's Net Worth?

Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman who has a net worth of $200 million. Nancy Shevell is an American businesswoman best known for her role in the trucking industry and her marriage to music legend Sir Paul McCartney. She is the vice president of New England Motor Freight (NEMF), a family-owned transportation company that was part of the Shevell Group of Companies. With a background in business, she played a key role in the company's operations and expansion, helping manage logistics and transportation services across the U.S.

Shevell has also been involved in public service, serving on the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York, where she contributed to transit policies and infrastructure improvements. Her work in the transportation sector earned her respect in a male-dominated industry.

Despite maintaining a private profile, she gained media attention after marrying Paul McCartney in 2011. The couple had been in a long-term relationship before tying the knot in a modest ceremony in London. Unlike McCartney's previous marriages, Shevell has largely stayed out of the spotlight, focusing on her business and personal life.

While NEMF ceased operations in 2019 due to financial struggles in the trucking industry, Shevell remains a respected figure in business circles. Her successful career and marriage to McCartney continue to keep her in the public eye.

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Early Life

Nancy Shevell was born on November 20, 1959, in New York City, New York. She is the middle daughter born to Myron and Arlene. Her father, Myron, earned a billion-dollar fortune as the owner of New England Motor Freight. Myron had started his own business with his brother in the '60s but was charged with fraud by government investigators for alleged ties to the mafia. After being forced to relinquish control of the company, they went bankrupt. Myron later bought New England Motor Freight and faced further accusations of collusion and racketeering.

Along with siblings Susan and Jon, Nancy was raised in Edison, New Jersey. She grew up a tomboy and played on the all-girls football team at J. P. Stevens High School. For college, she went on to attend Arizona State University, where she was the only woman to major in transportation. In 1983, Shevell joined her father's haulage company, and she became the vice president for administration in 1986. In 1991, she lost her mother to breast cancer. Nancy would later fight that disease herself, and survive.

MTA

In 2001, New York Governor George Pataki appointed Shevell to serve on the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the biggest public transportation authority in the state. Although she was known to frequently miss monthly meetings, Nancy was mostly well-respected by her colleagues for her speediness and grasp of the rules.

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Personal Life and Marriage to Paul McCartney

While in college, Shevell met attorney-turned-politician Bruce Blakeman. They married in 1984 and had one son, Arlen. In 2008, the two divorced.

While residing at her weekend home in the Hamptons on Long Island, Nancy met Paul McCartney. Both were coming from bad marriages, and they began dating in the summer of 2007. Although they did their best to keep the relationship discreet, attention from the press proved impossible to elude. When their cover was finally blown, they got engaged, with McCartney gifting Shevell a $650,000 1925 Cartier solitaire diamond ring. They married in 2011 at a ceremony held at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London, where McCartney had his first wedding in 1969. Shevell wore a wedding dress designed by her husband's daughter, famed designer Stella McCartney. Prior to the wedding, the betrothed couple went to Yom Kippur synagogue services, in honor of Shevell's Judaism. Both Shevell and McCartney accepted each other's children from their respective previous marriages. Later, in 2012, McCartney wrote the song "My Valentine" about Shevell; the track appears on his album "Kisses on the Bottom."

Real Estate

In 2015, Shevell and McCartney purchased a duplex penthouse on 1045 Fifth Avenue in New York for $15.5 million. The bronze-glass building, which was reserved and customized for developer Manny E. Duell in 1967, boasts five bedrooms and five-and-a-half baths. It also has 800 square feet of wraparound balconies that provide panoramic views of Central Park.

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