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Tristan Bove

Heiress Abigail Disney calls private jets ‘cancer’ and says she sometimes flies business class

Abigail Disney, filmmaker and grand-niece of Walt Disney, pictured in 2015 (Credit: Steve Zak Photography—FilmMagic/Getty Images)

An heiress of one of the entertainment world’s biggest fortunes is also a well-known capitalist contrarian. And she has a piece of advice for rich people to follow her lead by ditching their private planes and just flying commercial instead with a comfy business class ticket.

Abigail Disney, a documentary filmmaker and philanthropist, is also well-known for her social activism, including her takedowns of generational wealth, charitable support for women leaders, and even criticisms of the media empire founded by her great-uncle Walt Disney (although she is still a shareholder).

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