Hope Rockefeller net worth: Hope Rockefeller Aldrich is a newspaper publisher who has a net worth of $500 million dollars. Hope Rockefeller Aldrich currently resides in Corona Del Mar, California. The great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller I, of Standard Oil fame, she is also the daughter of famed philanthropists, John D. Rockefeller III and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, and the sibling of United States Senator, Jay Rockefeller. She began her professional career as a journalist, and wrote for such publications as The Washington Monthly, The Village Voice in New York, Newsday in Long Island, and China Daily, in Beijing, China. She began writing and working for the Santa Fe Reporter in the mid-80s, and subsequently bought the newspaper and became its publisher. Hope Rockefeller Aldrich is the richest person in New Mexico. She married John Spencer in the late 1950s, and gave birth to three sons.