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Salamander's portfolio includes: Reunion Resort in Reunion, Florida, The Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club, a 900-acre (3.6 km2), 72 hole PGA tour golf course in Palm Harbor, FL, Hotel Bennett in Charleston, South Carolina; Half Moon in Montego Bay, Jamaica; Aurora Anguilla in British West Indies; and The Salamander Resort & Spa in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Middleburg, Virginia."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"25 January 1949","date":"1949-01-25"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493074#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"McKeesport","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q949739"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493074#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493074#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"editor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607826"},{"text":"film producer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3282637"},{"text":"violinist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1259917"},{"text":"music arranger","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1643514"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493074#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457281"},{"text":"Proviso East High School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7252761"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493074#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Robert L. 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This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Sheila Johnson at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.JPG — David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0.","cite":"\"Sheila Johnson\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/sheila-johnson. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T12:00:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/sheila-johnson","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/sheila-johnson","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/sheila-johnson?lang=ne"}}