Who Is Anna Shay From The Bling Empire And How Did She Get So Rich?

Publish date: 2024-05-04

During Bling Empire's first episode, Anna Shay says that her father never wanted her to have a job. Fellow cast member and also billionaire heir Kane Lim said in the show that Shay is half Japanese and half Russian and "super, super wealthy." He then goes on to explain that "her money comes from weapons. Her father sells bombs, guns, defense technology. And it's worth like a few billion."

This "few billion" dollar company is Pacific Architects & Engineers, a defense and government services contractor that Anna's father Edward Shay founded back in 1955. Per the PAE website, the company began as an "architectural and engineering firm assisting the U.S. government effort to rebuild Asia in the wake of World War II." The company is still operating to this day, yet the Shay family sold it to Lockheed Martin an "all-cash, $1.2 billion dollar deal" in 2006, according to Variety. Edward Shay died in 1995, and Anna's mother Ai Oizumi Shay died in 2015. Anna is their only child.

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