Elaine Farrell Wynn (née Pascal; born April 28, 1942) is an American billionaire businesswoman and art collector.
[3] She graduated from George Washington University, where she received a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science in 1964.
[8][9] In June 2018, Wynn successfully led a shareholder proxy campaign to remove John Hagenbuch from the board, due to his conflict of interest created by ties to the company's former CEO.
[3] She is on the national board of directors of Communities In Schools, a non-profit organization which supports financially disadvantaged schoolchildren.
[3] She was appointed to the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by President Barack Obama in 2011.
In 2013, she acquired Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud for a US$142.4 million, and loaned it to the Portland Art Museum.