Curtis Johnson

S. Curtis “Curt” Johnson is the son of Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr., who died in 2004, and Imogene Powers Johnson, and the great great grandson of S. C. Johnson & Son founder Samuel Curtis Johnson Sr.. The 2013 Forbes 400 list of richest persons in the world placed him at 166 with a net worth of $3 billion.

  • S. Curtis is a great-great-grandson of Samuel Curtis Johnson, who founded SC Johnson, the family’s cleaning products company, in 1886.
  • In 2014, he was sentenced to four months in jail and fined $6,000 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor sexual assault of his stepdaughter.
  • S. Curtis had been the chairman of family-owned industrial cleaning company Diversey, but stepped down before his arrest, in 2011.
  • SC Johnson is known for products including Pledge, Windex and Drano.
  • S. Curtis and his siblings pledged $150 million to Cornell in 2017 to fund the SC Johnson College of Business.