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Betty Klimenko was born on 1959 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is a Businessperson. Discover Betty Klimenko's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Occupation Businessperson Motorsport team owner
Age 64 years old
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Born 1959
Birthday 1959
Birthplace Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australia

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Betty Klimenko Height, Weight & Measurements

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Who Is Betty Klimenko's Husband?

Her husband is Daniel Klimenko

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Children 3

Betty Klimenko Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Betty Klimenko worth at the age of 64 years old? Betty Klimenko’s income source is mostly from being a successful Businessperson. She is from Australia. We have estimated Betty Klimenko's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Timeline

2016

To allow for the continuation of Erebus Motorsport, Klimenko financed the team from a family trust to service a loan after using up her personal income. The relationship between her and Mercedes-AMG and HWA strained because the German marque did not understand the V8 Supercars Championship and team principal Ross Stone and team manager David Stuart left Erebus Motorsport. Klimenko switched manufacturers Mercedes to Holden in 2016 and moved Erbeus Motorsport's headquarters from Queensland to Victoria. She was the first woman team owner to win the Bathurst 1000 when Erebus Motorsport drivers David Reynolds and Luke Youlden finished first in the 2017 edition. In the 2018 championship, Klimenko's team finished fourth in the Teams' Championship. She sold 50 per cent of her share of the No. 99 Racing Entitlement Contract used by Erebus Motorsport, to the team's CEO Barry Ryan in June 2019.

2015

In 1999, Klimenko developed an interest for motor racing when her husband took her to a Porsche driving experience as a spectator. Working with her husband, she participated in amateur and semi-professional forms of motor racing, primarily Formula 3 and GT racing as a sponsor for 14 years. She also fielded a squad of SLS Mercedes GT cars in the GT3 category. In September 2012, Klimenko purchased the Stone Brothers Racing team and V8 Supercars Championship racing license from co-owners Ross Stone and Jimmy Stone starting from the 2013 season. She renamed the team Erebus Motorsport after the Greek god of darkness, and would lease the licence for two years until 1 January 2015. This made Klimenko the first female to own a V8 Supercars squad. She and the former head of Mercedes-Benz's motorsport activities Norbert Haug agreed to an engine supply deal for Erebus Motorport and was a Mercedes team, despite Mercedes-Benz Australia-Pacific telling its head office in Germany that V8 Supercars "was a sport for yobbos."

2014

Klimenko promotes women in motorsport. She led the nationwide Women in Auto Trades campaign opposite Auto Skills Australia and the Australian Government in 2014 visiting schools and aiming to get young girls into the motor trades industry. In March 2018, Klimenko joined the Australian arm of the Dare to be Different initiative as a global ambassador aiming to increase involvement of women at all levels of motor racing. She is an ambassador for the Blue Datto Foundation, and of the bereavement charity for children Feel the Magic. Klimenko featured on an November 2013 episode of 60 Minutes detailing her life and motor racing career.

1997

At age 13, Klimenko began working for Saunders as a cleaner in the toilets and kitchens of his shopping centres every Saturday for half a decade. She also worked as a Santa's little helper in shopping centres before becoming the first female employee in the men's jeans department at Grace Bros. Saunders cut Kilmenko off from his life following her second marriage to a non-Jewish man in Las Vegas and she had to assume a working-class life in the suburb of Matraville, Sydney living on her husband's income. Saunders and her reconciled when Klimenko gave birth to her son and received a share of his fortune following his death in 1997. She is joint deputy chairperson of the family-owned property development company Terrace Tower Group with her sister.

1981

She is married to Daniel Klimenko with whom she has one child. Klimenko has two children from a previous marriage that lasted five years from 1981 to 1986. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours "for significant service to motorsport, and to charitable organisations".

1959

Betty Saunders-Klimenko AM (born 1959) is an Australian businessperson and motorsport team owner who runs the Erebus Motorsport squad in the Supercars Championship. In 2017, she became the first female team owner to win the Bathurst 1000. Klimenko is a promoter of women in motorsport and is a global ambassador for the Australian arm of the Dare to be Different initiative.

Klimenko was the illegitimate child born to a police officer who served in the Vietnam War and the prostitute and former Miss West Australia Anne Neil in Sydney in 1959. She has three biological siblings. She was conceived drug-addicted in Kings Cross Police Station's Cell No. 3, and was abandoned at the adoption nursery of the former Crown Street Women's Hospital by her biological parents at seven weeks old. She has little knowledge of her biological mother, who died when Kilmenko was aged five, and never met her parents. Klimenko was adopted by the Hungarian-Jewish, Westfield Group co-founder and Nazi concentration camp survivor John Saunders and his wife Eta. She was brought up Jewish (although never converted) but born Catholic. She has a younger adopted brother, and was raised by nannies since Saunders worked constantly. Klimenko attended a Church of England school.