Jan 5, 2012 · Lillian Spellman Ellison and Louis Ellison adopted him when he was nine months old. Lillian was the second wife of Louis Ellison, an immigrant who had arrived in the United …

He remembers his adoptive mother, Lillian Spellman Ellison, [11] as warm and loving, in contrast to his austere, unsupportive, and often distant adoptive father, who had chosen the name …

At the end of his sophomore year, Lillian Ellison died of kidney cancer. Crushed, Larry left school. In the summer of 1964, he and Chuck Weiss visited Northern California.

The new parents were actually her aunt and uncle in Chicago: Lillian Spellman Ellison and Luis Ellison. He grew up in a two-bedroom apartment of a middle class family which wasn’t exactly …

Jan 5, 2025 · Due to financial limitations, his mother Florence Spellman, a single mother, found it difficult to care for him. Consequently, at the age of nine months, Larry was adopted by his …

Jan 5, 2025 · Larry Ellison was born to an unwed teenage mother, Florence Spellman, in New York City. At just nine months old, he contracted pneumonia, a life-threatening illness for an …

Louis Ellison married Lillian, his second wife, during the Great Depression, and their adopted son was their only child. They did not tell Larry he was adopted until he was 12 years old, and then …

Jul 23, 2023 · Ellison was born in the Bronx, New York, from Florence Spellman, a girl of only 19 years, and from a US Air Force pilot, a veteran of the Second World War who could not …

Sep 24, 2014 · Nineteen-year-old Florence Spellman was unwed at the time she gave birth to Larry. Nine months later, Larry suffered from pneumonia. Florence handed Larry over to her …

Oct 1, 2024 · Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle Corporation, was born on August 17, 1944, in New York City to Florence Spellman, a single Jewish mother.