Malone worshipped his father, and refers to him affectionately as "an intellectual with white socks." His mother was a world-class swimmer; she earned a master's degree in education from Temple University, and interrupted a teaching career to bring up her children.
Malone says he won't spoil his own children--Tracy, who has a two-year-old daughter, lives with her husband in the Denver area, and Evan is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania--by leaving them the billion-dollar fortune he has amassed.
Malone is among those who say no. People who say that TCI is a de-facto monopoly, even though it owns only one in four cable boxes, predicate the claim on their belief that no programming service could survive without access to Malone's subscribers.
Malones Frontier Forest, on the western Maine and Quebec border, is mountainous and sprinkled with ponds, lakes and streams.
Malone has a home on 220 acres in coastal Boothbay Harbor and acquired the Boothbay Region Boatyard Inc. The family has a compound on Spencer Lake that formerly was Falcon sporting lodge.
When Malone bought the boatyard and proposed to expand it two years ago, he ran afoul of some abutters who were concerned about the expansion of the yard, noise, lighting and affect on property values.
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