A 19-year-old Pritzker heir sued her father and 11 cousins for raiding her trusts, and took about $450 million

The Pritzker fortune, built on Hyatt and Marmon, was held in hundreds of family trusts. After patriarch Jay Pritzker died in 1999, the family agreed to divide the fortune among 11 cousins over about a decade^†. In December 2002 Liesel Pritzker, 19, who had starred as a child in the film A Little Princess, sued her father Robert Pritzker and 11 older cousins in Cook County. She alleged that more than $1 billion had been stripped from trusts set up for her and her brother Matthew and moved to accounts benefiting other relatives and the Pritzker Foundation. Some later accounts put the claim at $6 billion. Her father, who had been their trustee, said he acted appropriately and with integrity. If her trusts were restored, the amount left for the other heirs would shrink. In January 2005 the parties settled. Reports put the total near $900 million, about $450 million each for Liesel and Matthew, though the terms were sealed. Liesel Pritzker Simmons now runs a philanthropy and impact-investing firm^†.