Rebekah Neumann

Neumann, the daughter of Evelyn and Bob Paltrow, grew up in Bedford, New York and attended the Horace Mann School.[5] She went on to study business and Buddhism at Cornell University. She later became a certified Jivamukti yoga instructor.[6][7] She is a cousin of actress Gwyneth Paltrow.[8] Neumann is of Jewish descent and practices the faith.[9] She previously went by the nickname Rebi.[5]

After graduating from college, Neumann entered Salomon Smith Barney's Sales and Trading Program, now known as Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.[10] In the early 2010s, she acted and produced some short films using the screen name Rebekah Keith.[11]

In 2010, her husband, Adam Neumann, and Miguel McKelvey co-founded WeWork.[12] She founded WeGrow, a private school in Chelsea, in 2017.[13][14]

In September 2019, after an attempt to take the company public revealed deepening financial issues, it was announced that Rebekah Neumann would step down as CEO of WeGrow and relinquish her role in The We Company.[15]

In October 2019, it was announced that the WeGrow school would close at the end of the academic year.[16]

Rebekah and Israeli entrepreneur Adam Neumann met in New York[1] and married in 2008.[5] They have six children.[17]

In 2015, her father Robert Paltrow was sentenced in federal court to six months in prison, one year supervised release, and a fine of $50,000 after being convicted of falsifying his income tax returns. According to the release by the Department of Justice, Robert’s filings for the years 2007 and 2008 resulted in an underpayment of $798,969 in income tax.

In the Apple TV+ series WeCrashed (2022), Rebekah Neumann is portrayed by Anne Hathaway.[18]