Tag: Billionaire
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…