Anne Cox Chambers, Media Heiress and Former US Ambassador, Dies at 100

U.S billionaire media proprietor Anne Cox Chambers (C) smiles after being awarded "Commandeur de la L'gion d'Honneur" at the Culture Ministry, in Paris, on Nov. 13, 2009. Thibault Camus/AP Photo

Anne Cox Chambers, a billionaire heiress of media company Cox Enterprises and a former U.S. ambassador to Belgium, died at her home on Jan. 31 at the age of 100, the company confirmed.

“My aunt, a vivacious and charismatic woman, was very proud of Cox Enterprises’s success and the accomplishments of its employees,” Jim Kennedy, Cox Enterprises chairman and Chambers’s nephew, said in a statement to CNN and other media outlets.