Southern Charm’s Patricia Altschul’s huge net worth explained, after marrying a billionaire
It's millions
Any Southern Charm viewer will know that Patricia Altschul is the ultimate Charleston socialite. From her guys’ dinners to having a butler, Patricia is absolutely loaded. So, what is Patricia from Southern Charm’s net worth and how did she get so minted?
Patricia’s third husband, Arthur Goodhart Altschul, was a billionaire investor. He was also a partner at Goldman Sachs, an investment banking firm. He was a general partner there from 1959 until 1977 and later became a limited partner.
Arthur was also a prominent art collector, served as the Chairman of the board at Barnard College, and was a member of the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution.
He sadly died in 2002, and left Patricia with a huge chunk of his fortune. They even owned two homes together, a Fifth Avenue New York apartment worth an estimated $19 million and a 10-acre Long Island mansion.
So, Patricia reportedly has a net worth of $100 million.
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All of her worth didn’t come from her late husband, though. In 2017, she wrote and published the book The Art of Southern Charm, and in 2020 she launched The Patricia Altschul Luxury Collection on the Home Shopping Network.
According to Screen Rant, each cast member gets paid the same amount of $25,000 per episode of Southern Charm. So, with around 13 episodes a season, they can earn more than $350,000. While Patricia’s not featured on every episode, she’s Whitney’s mum, the producer and creator of the show, so she likely gets a hefty fee.
She also once worked at George Washington University as an instructor after she earned two bachelor’s degrees in 1964 and 1965. Her 9,500-square-foot Charleston mansion featured on the series is also estimated to be worth $15 million.