Joan Irvine Smith

Athalie Anita Irvine, known as Joan Irvine Smith (1 July 1933 – 19 December 2019), was an American philanthropist, arts patron, horse trainer and heiress to the Irvine family fortune from their California ranch. Biography Born as Athalie Anita Irvine, she was the only child of James Harvey Irvine, Jr. and Athalie Richardson. Her father died when she was 2 years old, and her grandfather, James Irvine II, died in 1947 and she inherited a minority share of the Irvine Company. She lived in Beverly Hills with her mother and her second husband after she remarried in 1938. Her mother married again in 1944 to Judge Thurmond Clarke. She studied at Westridge School, a private girls school in Pasadena, later dropping out from Marymount College and also attended UC Berkeley for one year.