Lurie is the chairman, chief executive and principal owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, a team in the National Football League. The Philadelphia-based franchise has been controlled by Lurie since 1994. The Eagles won their first Super Bowl in 2018 and were valued at about $8.4 billion in 2025.
The majority of Lurie's fortune is derived from his controlling stake in the Philadelphia Eagles, a team in the National Football League. The team is valued based on an August 2025 report from valuation consultants Sportico. Lurie's ownership of the Eagles is cited on their website, and he and his family are attributed an 83% stake in this analysis.
A person familiar with Lurie's finances confirmed that the billionaire had around $1 billion in outside investments as of May 2025, which includes the post-tax proceeds from selling a portion of his Eagles stake in December 2024. The figure has been adjusted for market performance.
Lurie was born on Sept. 8, 1951. He grew-up near Boston and worked part-time at his family's movie theaters and drive-ins. His grandfather founded the General Cinema chain before the family business expanded into other industries including soda bottling and publishing.
He completed a degree at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts and would later complete a master's degree and doctorate. He worked as an adjunct assistant professor at Boston University before joining the film-division of the family business in 1983.
Lurie and his family paid $185 million for the Philadelphia Eagles, a team in the National Football League, in 1994. At the time, the price paid was a record for all professional sports teams. Five years earlier Jerry Jones had paid $140 million for the widely popular Dallas Cowboys.
In 2018, the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, the biggest event in American football.