Name: Anne Batley Burton
Marital status: Married
Children: None
Occupation: Champagne importer and Founder of the New Zealand Cat Foundation
Former ballroom dancing champ and self-dubbed “Champagne Lady”, Anne has been importing Champagne and French wine into New Zealand for the last 16 years.
An award-winning animal advocate, she also founded The NZ Cat Foundation to care for stray and community cats.
She attended Hill Top School for Young Ladies, Auckland Girls’ Grammar and Auckland University where she studied a Bachelor of Commerce.
She speaks fluent French, and together with her husband Richard, she owns an olive oil estate in Huapai and a home in France.
Her star sign is a Scorpio, she owns too many cats to count and drives a Porsche 928 GTS and a Bentley Turbo R.