Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Meet Darla Moore, one of 'toughest babes’in business (and one of the first women admitted to Augusta National)




According to a CNN report one of the two women making history at the prestigious Augusta National Golf Club is a former U.S. secretary of state. The other, Darla Moore, is a former banking magnate and, by all accounts, a force to be reckoned with.

Moore -- who, along with Condoleezza Rice, has been admitted as a member of the previously all-male club -- once graced the cover of Fortune alongside the words, "The Toughest Babe in Business."

"To get a picture of Darla Moore, imagine, say, a cross between the Terminator and Kim Basinger," the 1997 profile read.  Her friend and admirer Martha Stewart described Moore, who hails from South Carolina, as "a cutthroat killer underneath."

When she married Richard Rainwater, one of the country's top investors, she was already the highest-paid woman in banking. She went on to nearly triple her husband's net worth, the article said. Moore took on two fellow magnates and won. She "booted" T. Boone Pickens from Mesa, the oil and gas company he founded. And she forced Rick Scott out at Columbia/HCA "after the health care giant got slammed with a massive criminal investigation," the article said. Scott is now governor of Florida.
"I've harassed guys all my life," Fortune quotes her as saying….

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