Personal Life and Education
Forbes was born in Morristown, New Jersey, to Roberta Remsen (née Laidlaw) and Malcolm Forbes. Forbes grew up wealthy in the town of Far Hills, New Jersey. He married Sabina Beekman in 1971. They have five daughters; Sabina, Roberta, Catherine, Moira, and Elizabeth. Forbes attended the elite Far Hills Country Day School and graduated cum laude in 1966 from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, and was in the Princeton class of 1970. While at Princeton, Forbes founded his first magazine, Business Today, with two other students. Business Today is currently the largest student-run magazine in the world.
In 1996, years after the death of his father, he changed the name credited to him on the Forbes magazine masthead from Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. to the name he had been known as throughout childhood, Steve Forbes. Forbes served as an occasional guest host on the show History's Business on the television channel History.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics from Stevenson University on April 30, 2009.
Forbes is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi and Tau Kappa Epsilon.
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