Illustration: Christian Blaza
Heirs to $35 Billion Fortune Face Off Over Atlanta's Controversial ‘Cop City’
Cox Enterprises’ CEO led a fundraising effort for an Atlanta police training center. His cousin cashed out of the family business and is trying to stop the project.
Alexander Cox Taylor is the fourth-generation scion of a dynasty valued at $35 billion. He runs the family conglomerate, Cox Enterprises Inc., while supporting civic causes in his hometown of Atlanta, including a new $110 million facility to train police and other safety officials.
His first cousin, James Cox Chambers Jr., is using his own piece of the fortune to try to shut that very project down. Fergie, as he’s known to his family, is fervently against what he and other opponents deride as Cop City. A community organizer and self-proclaimed Marxist, Chambers for a time had an ACAB tattoo on his neck — an acronym for “All cops are bastards.”