Bette Nesmith Graham for USD $47.5 million in 1979. At the time, her company employed 200 people and made 25 million bottles of Liquid Paper per year. Bette Nesmith died on May 12, 1980, at the age of 56, in Richardson, Texas. From the start, Graham ran her company with a unique combination of spirituality, egalitarianism, and pragmatism. Raised a Methodist, Graham converted to Christian Science in 1942, and this faith inspired the development of her corporate "Statement of Policy". Part-code of ethics, part-business philosophy, it covered everything from her belief in a "Supreme Being" to a focus on decentralized decision making and
Christian Nesmith Air Supply in 2009 as lead guitarist. He toured with his father for The Monkees' reunion tours between 2012-2014. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA Christian Nesmith Christian DuVal Nesmith (born January 31, 1965) is a musician from Los Angeles, CA, and the eldest son of Monkee Michael Nesmith and Phyllis (Nesmith) Gibson. He has worked with his father (on the album "The Garden"), Michael Sherwood (on "Tangletown" and in the band GLP), Ty Tabor (backing vocals on 2002's "Safety"), Doug Pinnick of King's X (touring band from 1998) and formerly Cindy Alexander. Played in the band Chodle's Trunk