Tag: Billionaire
Billionaire Deaths – Arizona Cardinals Owner Bill Bidwill Dies at 88
Bill Bidwill is pictured with son Michael Bidwill, the Cardinals team president, on the sidelines prior to the 2012 NFL season opener against the Seattle Seahawks. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)…
Lawmakers Call for Ethics Reform to Deal With Billionaire Resort-Owning Governor
The Greenbrier, one of the country’s top luxury hotels, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has more than 700 guest rooms and has hosted 27 presidents….
Philanthropists’ family donates $50 million to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Philanthopists John E. and Marion Anderson – A long time history of donations to great causes. Photo: Philanthropy.com Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is announcing a $50 million gift…
Top 20 Richest People In The World – The Week of July 10-17, 2019
Here is list of the Top 20 Richest People in The World for the Week of July 10-17, 2019 – Graphic: BillionaireWorldNews.org via Bloomberg Billionaire Index Richest Billionaires…
Ross Perot, self-made billionaire, patriot and philanthropist, dies at 89
Ross Perot angrily defends his accounts of alleged Republican dirty tricks aimed at sabotaging his presidential campaign during a news briefing at his campaign headquarters on Monday, Oct. 26, 1992…
More Warren Buffett Donations – Announces $3.6 Billion – 5 Charity Donation
One Of The Truly Happiest And Charitable People In The World – Billionaire Warren Buffett Photo – Kevin Lamarque-Reuters Billionaire Warren Buffett announced July 1, 2019 that he…
South Dakota Billionaire Donates $3.5 Million To Restore Theater
State Theatre in Sioux Falls, SD – Photo – (KELO Radio) Billionaire Charitable Donation – South Dakota billionaire Denny Sanford has donated $3.5 million to restore a historic theater…
Steven Spielberg is one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Take a look at what the billionaire’s life is really like
Steven Spielberg is estimated to be worth between $3.7 billion and $6 billion. AP Images Billionaire filmmaker Steven Spielberg is one of Hollywood’s most well-known and celebrated figures….
Billionaire sells his smaller Hamptons estate for $42.5 Million – 27 Photos
Michael S Smith’s Hamptons Beach House (Now Former) – Google Maps Natural gas billionaire Michael S. Smith and his wife, Iris, have finally sold their contemporary Hamptons beach house for…
No One Should Be A Billionaire
Illustrated | SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images, Elen11/iStock, aklionka/iStock An opinion from Jeff Spross of The Week – “Does anyone deserve to have a billion dollars?” But let’s sit with that question…
Bernard Arnault just joined Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in the 3-person club of people worth more than $100 billion each
Arnault is the chairman and CEO of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, known as LVMH, the world’s largest maker of luxury goods. Chesnot/Getty Images Bernard Arnault has a net…
Dutch Billionaire John De Mol Suing Facebook Over Crypto Ads Using His Image Without Permission
Image Thanks to Follow Up and CoinTelegraph Earlier this week, Dutch billionaire John De Mol launched a lawsuit against Facebook over crypto ads using his image without permission. De Mol…
Remodel Underway at Jack Dorsey’s New $21 Million House
The two houses are perched on a cliffside overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. Composite: Google Maps; Getty Images Home repairs totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars are already underway at…
13 luxury real-estate agents reveal what it’s really like working with millionaire and billionaire clients
Many agents said working with affluent clients is easier than working with ordinary clients. Getty Images Business Insider surveyed real-estate agents around the US about what it’s really like working…
Billionaire-backed crypto start-up pays out 6,567% return
Brendan Blumer, the chief executive of Block.one, was named by Forbes as one of “the richest people in cryptocurrency” in February last year. Photo: picture alliance / Gandalf Hammerbacher Billionaire moneymen Peter…
College Dropout Who Founded Firm in a Shed Becomes Billionaire
Peter Kelly Softcat – Photo – SouthernEntrepreneurs.uk.com Success put Peter Kelly on the brink of failure. During the 1990s, booming business at his fledgling mail-order software firm sparked a cash-flow…
Billionaire David Tepper planning to return outside money
David Tepper, president of Appaloosa Management, in New York on May 4, 2015. Photo: Bloomberg Photo By Andrew Harrer. Billionaire David Tepper is planning to return money to investors, following…
Trump Pardons Longtime Billionaire Buddy, Conrad Black
The former press baron Conrad M. Black was found guilty of fraud and obstruction of justice after swindling his company, Hollinger International, of $60 million. Photo Credit: John Gress/Reuters …
Billionaire Aquilini family shortchanged migrant workers, B.C. government rules
A farm worker in the fields at the Aquilini family’s Golden Eagle Farm – Photo: Martn Diotte/CBC A branch of the B.C. government has found the billionaire Aquilini family — which own the…
Matthew Bronfman buys Tel Aviv apartment for NIS 50m
Meier on Rothschild is a skyscraper on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, Israel. The tower is 158 meters (520 ft) and It is the second highest residential building in Israel…
Mark Zuckerberg Covertly Acquires $59 Million Lake Tahoe Compound
Although the deal(s) went down several months ago, it’s only now — thanks to the Wall Street Journal sleuths — that Mark Zuckerberg’s surreptitious real estate ways in the resort…
Oil Billionaire Sid Bass Drops $14 Million in Malibu For Daughter
Back in summer 2015, amid extensive online chatter, actor Patrick Dempsey sold his pedigreed Malibu estate for exactly $15 million. Built by ballyhooed “starchitect” Frank Gehry, the starkly idiosyncratic property…
Coca-Cola billionaire arrested after search of private jet reveals 5,000 alleged cannabis plants
A Greek billionaire has been detained on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts after a search of his private jet yielded approximately £1 million of cannabis totaling approximately 5,000 plants,…
The top 15 countries with the most billionaires, ranked
The US has the most billionaires. Icon Sportswire/Getty Images Fifteen countries dominate in billionaire population and wealth, according to Wealth-X’s 2019 Billionaire Census report. The report analyzed data from Wealth-X’s…
Sir Philip Green no longer a billionaire as fortune halves in a year – Sunday Times Rich List
Sir Philip Green (pictured with wife Tina) had a fortune of nearly $5 billion in 2007. Photo thanks to Sunday Times Rich List. Sir Philip Green is no longer a…
Russian billionaire pays $23M for Wellington polo estate
4370 South Road, Wellington (Credit: Realtor) Read more at – Exiled Russian Billionaire Buys Wellington Equestrian Estate
Multi-million dollar Bel Air mansion where the feds found huge cache of guns belongs to billionaire Getty scion’s former mistress
Wednesday’s BATF raid found thousands of firearms and one man was arrested at the home of Cynthia Beck – AP Photo The Bel Air mansion where federal agents found more…
Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein illegally building Virgin Islands compound
Jeffrey Epstein – Photo courtesy of David McGlynn – New York Post Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has gotten himself into a new tangle with the law — running afoul of…
Chinese billionaire tied to $6.5 million payment for Stanford met with Trump
Not long after his daughter got into Stanford University with the help of a $6.5 million payment, Chinese pharmaceutical billionaire Zhao Tao met with Donald Trump to promote a key…
The economic ‘revolution’ that has billionaires worried
Blackstone Co-founder Stephen Schwarzman Photo Credit: Bloomberg In Beverly Hills, the chicken Caesar salad costs $25.95. Billionaire Blackstone co-founder, Stephen Schwarzman, with a net worth of $14.3 billion, could buy…
Billionaire Faces Hearing in Vegas Drug Case
FILE – This March 6, 2019, file photo shows Henry T. Nicholas III, left, and Ashley Fargo during the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles…
Judge orders billionaire Robert Kraft to show up for next prostitution case hearing
Patriots Owner Robert Kraft – File Photo NBCSports Billionaire Robert Kraft was ordered Wednesday to attend a May 21 hearing for the judge to set a trial date in his…
Billionaire Marc Benioff Donates $30 Million to Research Homelessness
Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, in San Francisco on April 2, 2018. (Matt Edge for The New York Times-Medium) UC San Francisco launched a new research initiative aimed…
This Eccentric Billionaire Created A Stonehenge On Ibiza Estate And Transformed Its Art Scene Forever
Quite a Billionaire Mansion – Can Soleil Main Villa in Ibiza – Courtesy of Sunset Luxury Villas and Jim Dobson A modern day Stonehenge on the island of Ibiza. I…
At Milken’s Retreat for Billionaires, Capitalism Is Still Good
In a year when billionaires are hot political targets, and Wall Street leaders openly worry about the future of capitalism, many are about to take refuge among friends in sunny…
How a long-standing rivalry between 2 French billionaires helped raise $340 million to rebuild Notre-Dame in 24 hours
Ranked as the richest and second-richest men in France, Bernard Arnault and François Pinault head major luxury-goods empires. Pinault’s net worth is $35 billion according to Forbes real-time data, while…
Billionaire Heir Buys Miami Beach Mansion From CEO
A company headed by Wayne E. Chaplin, CEO of Miami-based Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits sold a Miami Beach mansion for $19.65 million to a company controlled by the billionaire…
Wyoming and decarbonization billionaire become unlikely allies
JACKSON – Conservative Wyoming and a billionaire self-described as “left of Karl Marx” have become unlikely allies in funding a nonprofit startup accelerator hoping to introduce the world to carbon-negative…
Billionaire Democratic Donor Reportedly in talks to Buy Enquirer
LOS ANGELES — Billionaire investor Ron Burkle is in talks to acquire the National Enquirer, the New York Times reported, potentially putting a high-profile Democratic Party donor in charge of…
A Democrat congresswoman grills JPMorgan CEO on how an employee should budget her low salary – and he has no idea
Katie Porter speaks to billionaire CEO Jamie Dimon -Photo: CNN A Democrat congresswoman has received praise for the way she held billionaire CEO of the JPMorgan bank group accountable over…
Madonna’s billionaire Eurovision backer revealed, as protests against performance grow
Madonna – Photo By Andy Malt Madonna’s appearance at Eurovision is being funded by an Israel-based billionaire, it has emerged. However, despite his hope that it will boost the country’s…
Billionaire Roundup: Elon Musk Drops Rap Single Are We Sure He Is Mentally Stable?
Spring has sprung and our favorite billionaires are out there…doing well, pretty much whatever the heck they want to be doing. Take, for example, billionaire Elon Musk, who both won’t…
Billionaire Tim Draper Slams’Paranoid’ Jamie Dimon, Doubles Down $250,000 Bitcoin Price
Cryptocurrency bull Tim Draper has fired a shot at the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, nearly two months after the big four U.S. bank announced the creation…
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s $238 million apartment helped boost the average Manhattan real estate price by 10%
It was the sale that shocked the world — and the housing data. Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s $238 million purchase of a condo in Manhattan single-handedly boosted the average…
Phones 4u billionaire reveals why he won’t be leaving all his money to his children
Billionaire John Caudwell in his London mansion with presenter Anne Robinson for an episode of Britain’s Spending Secrets Phones 4u founder John Caudwell has revealed he won’t be leaving all…
‘Play-to-win’ lawyers seek to represent billionaire Robert Kraft in prostitution case
Battling charges of soliciting prostitution, New England Patriots billionaire owner Robert Kraft is demanding a speedy trial along with efforts to block prosecutors from using videos and other evidence in his high-profile case. The billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma have been sued by New York state for allegedly triggering a US addiction epidemic with their marketing of the Oxycontin painkiller, just two days…
Billionaire Sackler family sued by second US state over opioid ‘catastrophe’
Billionaire Promises to Reward 70-Year-old Woman Who Walked 10 Miles to Help Cyclone Victims
This grandmother may have a new lease on life after a billionaire philanthropist caught wind of her determination to help cyclone victims. The woman, Plaxedes “Gogo” Dilon, is used to…
S.C. House votes to give Carolina Panthers billionaire owner millions in tax incentives
South Carolina could send nearly $115 million in tax incentives to the Carolina Panthers in an attempt by politicians to convince the pro football team to move its headquarters and…
Billionaire Nelson Peltz is Getting Into the Cannabis Business
Top photo: © Capjah | Adobe Stock The billionaire Nelson Peltz is getting into the cannabis business. Peltz, who is worth $1.6 billion according to Forbes, is the CEO and…
