[8] Hunt said that as a child, she was unaware of the family's wealth until she found a Life magazine picture of her father, "with a caption that asked, 'Is this the richest man in the world?'
[3] It is a subsidiary of a larger company owned by Hong Kong billionaire Henry Cheng[5] as the result of Hunt's 2011 sale of Rosewood and five of its hotel properties.
[12] Hunt had a line of bath and skin products called Lady Primrose,[2][3] an outgrowth of the English country antiques shop she opened in 1987 with a friend.
[10] In 1991, together with her sister Margaret, Hunt paid for the restoration of Hilltop, an 1810 building on the campus of Mary Baldwin College which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
[15] Hunt was also a donor to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Tiffany Circle of the American Red Cross, The Heritage Foundation, and the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress.
[9][10] She also served as honorary chair of the Retina Foundation of the Southwest, a non-profit organization for research into macular degeneration — a condition from which Hunt herself suffered[2] — and restoration of vision loss.