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"To get rich is glorious." - Deng Xiaoping.

"It is better to live rich than to die rich." - Samuel Johnson.

"As long as I’m not the richest man in the world, I won’t really be happy." - Bernard Arnault.

"If you have a lot of money, you can organise your life in a rather pleasant way." - Kim Philby.

"The best financial planning ends with bouncing the check to the undertaker." - Michael Bloomberg.

"I think it's possible to be very rich and happy, and I suppose, very poor and happy. But it's easier to be very rich and happy." - Ann Getty.

Living Billionaires News & Resources

• 2 Warren Buffett Stocks to Hold Forever - "There's nothing wrong with looking to the Oracle of Omaha for guidance. Below are two Buffett stocks that investors can feel comfortable holding on to forever."
• 5 richest men in the world double their money as poorest get poorer - "Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase."
• $100 billion club has swelled to an unprecedented 15 members - "The combined net worth for these people is up 13% this year to $2.2 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, beating the pace of inflation and the broader stock market. Between them, they hold nearly a quarter of the wealth of the world’s 500 richest people."
• 141 new billionaires 2024 in 'amazing year for rich people' - "Forbes has released its list of the world's billionaires. There are more than ever before - and they're wealthier."
• 722 biggest companies ‘making $1tn in windfall profits’ - "The world’s 722 biggest companies collectively are making more than $1tn a year in windfall profits on the back of soaring energy prices and rising interest rates, according to research by development charities. The companies made $1.08tn this way in 2021 and $1.09tn last year, according to analysis of Forbes magazine data by the charities Oxfam and ActionAid. The collective profits were 89% higher than the previous four-year average covering 2017-2020."
• 2024: The World's Real Time Billionaires list | Today’s Winners & Losers - Forbes.
• 2023 Forbes 400 - "The Definitive Ranking of The Wealthiest Americans In 2023." The wealthiest people in the U.S. are poorer than a year ago—and the cutoff to make the list fell for the first time since the Great Recession.
• 2024 Forbes World's Billionaires list - "A record year for ten-figure wealth has left the billionaire class bigger and richer than ever." What a year it’s been for the planet’s billionaires, whose fortunes continue to swell as global stock markets shrug off war, political unrest and lingering inflation. There are now more billionaires than ever: 2,781 in all, 141 more than last year and 26 more than the record set in 2021. They’re richer than ever, worth $14.2 trillion in aggregate, up by $2 trillion from 2023 and $1.1 trillion above the previous record, also set in 2021. Two-thirds of the list’s members are worth more than a year ago; only one fourth are poorer. Much of the gains come from the top 20, who added a combined $700 billion in wealth since 2023, and from the U.S., which now boasts a record 813 billionaires worth a combined $5.7 trillion. China remains second, with 473 (including Hong Kong) worth $1.7 trillion, despite weak consumer spending and a real estate bust that helped wipe out some $300 billion in wealth. India, which has 200 billionaires (also a record), ranks third. To calculate net worths, we used stock prices and exchange rates from March 8, 2024. See below for the full list of the world’s billionaires and our methodology. For daily updated net worths of all 2,781 billionaires, check out our real-time billionaires rankings.
• Bloomberg Billionaires Index - launched in March 2012. "View profiles for each of the world's 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns." The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world's richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire's profile page. The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York.
• Cities With The Most Billionaires 2024 - "Just ten cities are home to nearly a quarter of the world's billionaires. Here's where they choose to live."
• Elon Musk has lost a bigger fortune than anyone in history - "Elon Musk’s wealth destruction has become historic. The CEO of Tesla (TSLA), SpaceX and Twitter is worth $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, good enough for second place on the list of the world’s richest behind LVMH (LVMHF) Chairman Bernard Arnault. But at its peak in November 2021, Musk’s net worth was $340 billion."
• Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says - "In addition to world’s richest person, who has $251bn, report names others on track to receive trillionaire status."
• Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List - "Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. The value of individuals’ public holdings are updated every 5 minutes when respective stock markets are open (there will be a 15-minute delay for stock prices). Individuals whose fortunes are significantly tied to private companies will have their net worths updated once a day. In cases where an individual owns a stake in a private company that accounts for 20% or more of his or her net worth, the value of the company will be adjusted according to an industry- or region-specific market index provided by our partners at FactSet Research Systems when available. A rotating cast of the five biggest winners and losers throughout the day is featured at the top of the page, followed by the complete list of billionaires ranked in order of net worth."
• Global Wealth Report 2023 - "Global wealth is expected to rise by 38% over the next five years, reaching USD 629 trillion by 2027. How has global household wealth developed in 2022? What are the projections for the years ahead? Find out with the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on global household wealth."
• How Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk & George Soros Pay Less Income Tax Than You - "And How You Can Replicate The Strategy. It's Legal. Most billionaires don’t get to where they are by earning a salary. And that also means they might pay less income tax than Americans who make a living through wages. According to a report from ProPublica, some billionaires in the U.S. paid little or no income tax relative to the vast amount of wealth they have accumulated over the years."
• Oxfam points to 5 likely candidates to be the world's first trillionaire - "Here's where the fortunes of Musk, Arnault, Bezos, Ellison and Buffett stand today. The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today's richest 1%. In an annual assessment of global inequalities published earlier this week, Oxfam International said the first trillionaire could emerge within the next decade - as the anti-poverty organization pointed to the growing wealth gap that skyrocketed globally during the COVID-19 pandemic."
• Rihanna, Jay-Z & Kim Kardashian lead the stars on 2023 Forbes' billionaire list - "But Kanye West drops off after Adidas ends partnership. Umbrella hitmaker Rihanna has amassed a huge net worth after venturing into lingerie and beauty with her brand Fenty."
• The Sunday Times Rich List 2024 revealed - "It features the King, the prime minister, inventors and industrialists, as well as some exciting new names, but what does the record fall in the number of billionaires mean for Britain?"
• Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10 - "Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit."
• world's WEALTHIEST women 2024 - "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's ex-wife MacKenzie Scott lands the fifth spot in Forbes' list of richest ladies after giving away more than $17.3 BILLION (but her fortune PALES in comparison to the top spot holder)."




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• 3 commas club - to be in the three commas club is to be a billionaire.
• 3 Of The 5 Richest People In The World Are Making New Plays In The Real Estate Market - "Real estate has long been considered a lucrative investment option for building wealth, and some of the world's wealthiest individuals are no strangers to this fact. In fact, three of the five richest people in the world are currently making unique plays in the real estate industry. From buying up vast swaths of land to investing in cutting-edge technology, these billionaires are setting themselves apart in a field that has been a cornerstone of wealth creation for centuries."
• 3 Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "Those are mysteries Forbes has grappled with for 20 years. Figuring out Putin’s net worth is probably the most elusive riddle in wealth hunting–harder than the heirs, other heads of state and even drug lords that we’ve financially smoked out over the years. Uncovering private wealth is something we take very seriously, especially in Russia–the founding editor of Forbes Russia, Paul Klebnikov, risked his life for this cause, and was shot in the streets of Moscow in 2004 as he was investigating the fortunes of Russia’s early oligarchs. So where and how much is the fortune that Biden threatens to sanction over Russia’s aggression in Ukraine? We don’t know. But over the years, leaning on sources and expertise, we’ve developed some theories."
• 5 Billionaires Who Have Gained The Most Since Trump Became President - "On January 20, 2017, Donald Trump delivered his inaugural address, promising to 'make America wealthy again.' In the three years since that day, America has certainly gotten wealthier, with the U.S. stock market surging 47%. But the five biggest gainers are people who were already exceedingly rich."
• 5 of Jeff Bezos’ best lessons for success from his 27 years as Amazon CEO - "Monday marks Jeff Bezos’ final day as the CEO of Amazon, the company he launched in 1994 as an online bookseller that is now an ecommerce behemoth worth $1.7 trillion - the company that has made him the richest person in the world with a nearly $200 billion fortune. Over Bezos’ roughly 27 years as CEO, he’s regularly shared advice and lessons learned in interviews and his annual letters to Amazon shareholders."
• 5 people you didn't know were super rich - "Forbes and Bloomberg track the net worth of the wealthiest people. But what if we said there were secret billionaires too?"
• 5 things you should know about Jeff Bezos - "Amazon's Jeff Bezos: The richest person in the world. In 2017 he became the world's first centibillionaire. His wealth is now estimated to be $171bn, having made billions during the pandemic."
• 8 billionaires whose kids won’t inherit their fortunes - "From Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ wife, Laurene Powell Jobs. "
• 8 Phenomenal Stocks Warren Buffett Plans to Hold Forever - "Whereas the benchmark S&P 500 has gained a healthy 33,000%, including dividends, since the affably named 'Oracle of Omaha' became Berkshire's CEO, Buffett has overseen just shy of a 5,000,000% aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A), as of the closing bell on April 25."
• 8 Tips For Building Wealth - "There’s no magic formula for building wealth and getting rich. It’s simple, really: Spend less than you earn, and save as much money as you possibly can. If your goal is to get rich, check out the following eight tips on how you can sidestep the obstacles and maintain your focus. They should help you understand what it takes to build wealth and find your way to financial security. 1. Establish Financial Goals - 2. Destroy Your Debt - 3. Create a Cushion - 4. Start Investing Now - 5. Diversify Your Portfolio - 6. Boost Your Income - 7. Learn about FIRE - 8. Avoid the Schemes." Forbes.
• 9 Books From Elon Musk’s Reading List That Could Change Your Life - "When he’s not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read."
• 9 EASY WAYS TO LIVE UNDER THE RADAR - "Stealth wealth is the opposite of conspicuous consumption, and it’s about financial freedom and a successful personal life."
• 10 Best Performing Warren Buffett Stocks in 2023 - "We'll take a look at how well Mr. Buffett's portfolio is doing on the stock market. Some companies that are doing great are Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:FND), Paramount Global (NASDAQ:PARA), and Nu Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:NU)."
• 10 Homes Isn’t Enough: Which Billionaires Own The Most Properties - "Take a peek into the sprawling real estate portfolios of America’s richest people." Forbes.
• 11 Lessons for Entrepreneurs From Jeff Bezos's Tremendous Success - "As the Amazon founder exits the CEO role, he leaves his successor a set of rules that might be helpful to any entrepreneur bent on conquering the known universe."
• 11 richest people in fashion - "Meet the billionaire brains behind brands from Louis Vuitton to Nike, Gucci to Uniqlo, Zara and H&M."
• 12 billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds - "Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk."
• 13 Habits That Helped Bill Gates Build His $106 Billion Fortune - "Budding entrepreneurs and philanthropists want to know how Gates amassed his fortune so that they might join the Billionaires' Club one day. Here are a few habits that helped Bill Gates become a massive success."
• 14 most extravagant celebrity private jets - from Kim K to Elon Musk - "Billionaires are no strangers to the high life - especially in the case of private jets. Although owning at least one is a staple asset for many of the world’s wealthiest, not all jets are created equal, and some are inevitably more impressive than others - and of course come with different price tags. So, which billionaires own the most extravagant rides?"
• 15 Differences Between Rich & Poor Mindset - "In our society, we often see a divide between those with financial resources and those who struggle to meet their needs. It’s not just about the money they have, but also about their mindset. Let’s delve into the differences between the rich and the poor mindset."
• 15 Habits That Distinguish The Poor From The Rich - "We all wonder what makes the self-made rich different from the people unable to escape being poor. How do self-made millionaires achieve their wealth, and what keeps it growing? Through extensive studies and research, I’ve been able to identify a variety of habits that distinguish the two."
• 17-minute flight? The super-rich who have ‘absolute disregard for the planet’ - "Kylie Jenner is far from the only celebrity to make short hops using private jets despite mounting concerns over the climate crisis."
• 25 Richest Americans reportedly paid ‘true tax rate’ of 3.4% as wealth rocketed - "ProPublica investigation shows how little US super-rich, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, reportedly paid between 2014 and 2018."
• 18 months after Putin invaded Ukraine, Russia's sanctioned oligarchs are still rich & even less likely to stand up to him - "Their political influence has waned since it started, and their wealth now depends more on Putin."
• 31 billionaires are worth more than the US Treasury has in cash - "For context, 31 billionaires are each worth more than the federal government's $38.8 billion in cash, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Some of them, like fashion mogul Bernard Arnault - are worth a lot more. Arnault, the chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, has a net worth estimated at $193 billion."
• 34 Frugal Living Tips That Really Work: Warren Buffett’s Saving Money Habits - "This guide will delve into 34 actionable frugal living tips rooted in Buffett’s financial principles, teaching, lifestyle, and quotes, helping you transform your financial habits, save money, and build wealth over time."
• 41 super-rich's stunning planes, trains, automobiles & yachts - "Magnificent modes of transport that will make your jaw drop. Billionaires like to go from A to B in supreme comfort and style, and think nothing of splurging on the finest and most exclusive modes of transport imaginable. Read on to see the private jets, opulent trains, prestige cars and magnificent megayachts of the planet's richest people."
• 85% of Warren Buffett's $354 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Just 10 Stocks - "The Oracle of Omaha has run circles around the S&P 500 since becoming CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Despite having stakes in close to four dozen securities, nearly $302 billion of Berkshire's invested assets are in only 10 stocks. Portfolio concentration is a big reason Berkshire Hathaway has handily outperformed Wall Street for nearly 60 years."
• 150 Frozen Homes, Yachts & Jets Of Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs - "Western countries have frozen or seized at least $9 billion worth of luxury real estate, superyachts and private jets belonging to Russian billionaires since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It hasn’t made much of a difference to their fortunes."
• 2017 Forbes Billionaires List - up 13% to 2,043 from 1,810 last year.
• 2018 Global Wealth Report - Credit Suisse.
• 2019 World's Billionaires list - "By our latest count there are 2,153 billionaires, 55 fewer than a year ago."
• 2021, billionaires headed to the stars - "Unfortunately, they all came back 30 minutes later."
• 2021 Wealth Report - 15th edition of The Wealth Report published by Knight Frank.
• 2022 Philanthropy 50: Who Gives the Most to Charity - "The Chronicle’s 23rd annual ranking of America’s biggest donors features a number of donors making their Philanthropy 50 debut, including Edward Avedisian, a professional clarinetist with the Boston Pops, and Tilman Fertitta, the world’s richest restauranteur. Two of Airbnb’s co-founders gave to help Ukrainian refugees, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates took the top spot by giving $5.1 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last year. Altogether, the donors on the list contributed $16 billion." The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
• A billionaire got Paul Allen’s 414-foot-long Octopus megayacht to the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix - "Paid $138,000 just to moor it near the tracks and enjoy the race from the $285 million vessel. That late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s 414-foot superyacht, Octopus was the biggest yacht at this year’s Monaco Grand Prix is no secret. Being big in size and stature also entails wider attention and, indeed, some very giant bills. We are intrigued by the latter as during a major yachting event like the GP, the mooring fees can get absurdly high. The weekly rates range from $4,000 (for the smallest boats in the worst spots) to a staggering $150,000 (for the biggest boats in the best spots). Conan McGregor, who got his $3.3 million 63 feet long Lamborghini yacht paid $12,000 for the week."
• A ‘Cage Match’ Between Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg May Be No Joke - "Talks over a matchup between the two tech billionaires have progressed and the parameters of an event are taking shape." The New York Times.
• A new billionaire has been minted nearly every day during the pandemic - "Some 573 people have joined the billionaire ranks since 2020, bringing the worldwide total to 2,668, according to an analysis released by Oxfam on Sunday. That means a new billionaire was minted about every 30 hours, on average, so far during the pandemic."
• A secretive billionaire is building a superyacht that will be even taller than Jeff Bezos’ $500 million yacht Koru - "Named Noir, the vessel with a sloop rig standing 305 feet high will overshadow the Amazon founder’s ship."
• A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak - "The Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents that reveals hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful."
• A superyacht is a terrible asset - "Russians hold a disproportionate number of the biggest ones."
• According to a Microsoft employee, Bill Gates would come to work in a Mercedes but would abruptly drive off from office in a fancy Golden Brown Porsche to meet women - Luxurylaunches.com.
• Actions The World’s Wealthiest Are Taking In Response To The Coronavirus Pandemic - "As the coronavirus pandemic has reached nearly every corner of the world, some of the planet’s wealthiest are helping the global effort to combat the COVID-19 outbreak and do what they can for the economy."
• Activists spray red paint over billionaire Walmart heiress’s superyacht for a second time - "Spanish climate activists sprayed red paint across a superyacht owned by billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie in Barcelona on Friday, the second time the yacht has been the target of protests in the past two months."
• Adani Group: Fortune of Asia's richest man hit by fraud claims - "Indian billionaire Gautam Adani saw more than $20bn wiped off his fortune on Friday, after investors fled his companies for a second day prompted by fraud claims made by a US investment firm."
• Africa’s Richest People 2021 - Forbes Billionaires’ List.
• Africa’s Richest People - And The Tycoon Who Lost Half His Fortune - Forbes.
• Africa’s richest woman set to lose Monaco property - "A ruling in the UK’s High Court is likely to cost Isabel dos Santos her real estate holdings in Monaco." Monaco Daily News.
• Alexei Mordashov, Russia’s richest man may have avoided freeze on £1bn Tui shares - "Alexei Mordashov sold most of 34% stake in world’s biggest tourism operator to firm in British Virgin Islands."
• Alisher Usmanov’s Mega-Yacht In Germany Uncertain - "According to the Ministry for Economy and Innovation in the German state of Hamburg, the country’s authorities have not seized the Dilbar, a 512-foot yacht owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. As Forbes reported on Wednesday, work on the ship has been halted at the Hamburg shipyard where it has been stationed for refitting work since October."
• Amazon's Jeff Bezos now worth US$150 billion - CNN tech.
• Ambani wedding: guests from Bollywood stars to global statesmen attend lavish event - in pictures - "Guests arrive at the extravagant wedding of power couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant."
• Ambani wedding: The marathon Indian wedding turning heads around the world - "How much is too much? That's the question many in India are asking as the months-long wedding festivities for the youngest son of Asia's richest man enter their final phase."
• Ambanis’ convoy with Mercedes-Benz S600 Guard, Rolls Royce Cullinan & armoured BMW 7-Series spotted on the road - "We all know that the Ambani family has one of the most expensive car collections in the country. There are several videos on the internet where the richest family in the country is seen on the road with their luxury cars. They get Z Plus category security and whenever they travel, they have a bunch of security cars around them. The family recently received twin grandchildren to their family. We have already written about the expensive cars that the security team of Ambani family uses. Here we have a video where the Ambani family is seen moving around in a bunch of luxury cars like couple of Mercedes-Benz S600 Guard, armoured BMW 7-Series, and Rolls Royce Cullinan."
• America's 1% Got Way Richer During the Pandemic. We Need a Onetime Wealth Tax to Help Rebuild the Country - "he coronavirus has been nothing less than a calamity. But more than a year into the pandemic, it is distressingly clear that although the virus affects everyone, we are not all in this together. Instead, the disease highlights and worsens existing fault lines in American society, especially economic inequality."
• America's Highest Earners & Their Taxes Revealed - "Secret IRS files reveal the top US income-earners and how their tax rates vary more than their incomes. Tech titans, hedge fund managers and heirs dominate the list, while the likes of Taylor Swift and LeBron James didn’t even make the top 400." ProPublica.
• America’s Most Eligible Billionaires 2023 - "Even the world’s richest people can be unlucky in love. From Elon Musk and MacKenzie Scott to Kim Kardashian and Tyler Perry, these billionaires are still looking for a Valentine."
• America’s Richest Self-Made Women 2022 - "Forbes’ Ranking Of The Country’s Most Successful Women Entrepreneurs, Executives And Entertainers."
• America's Top 15 Earners & What They Reveal About the U.S. Tax System - "An unprecedented trove of leaked IRS data shows who reported the most income in America from 2013 to 2018, as well as their tax rates, revealing that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich." ProPublica.
• America’s Top Givers 2022: The 25 Most Philanthropic Billionaires - "The billions keep piling up for many of America’s great philanthropists. So, too, do their charitable contributions. The nation’s 25 biggest givers have donated a total of $169 billion over the course of their lifetimes, according to Forbes’ estimates. That’s up from $149 billion last year, partly due to new information uncovered by Forbes - but mostly due to another year of huge giving by these 25 mega-donors."
• Americans hoping to be part of country's 1% richest need to be worth at least $4.4m - "That's half of what resident of tax haven Monaco needs - where $8 million will get you in the exclusive club - according to The Knight Frank wealth report. "
• Amid Coronavirus Uncertainty, World's 20 Richest Billionaires Shed Nearly $300 Billion In One Month - "When the Dow Jones reached its all-time high on February 13, the top 20 fortunes combined for more than $1.4 trillion - a figure that has since crashed to $1.1 trillion. Monday alone accounted for $68 billion in losses as the S&P and Dow plunged 12% and 13%, respectively."
• Anant Ambani's extravagant pre-wedding party - "Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Rihanna and Ivanka Trump were among the high-profile international figures who jetted to India for billionaire heir Anant Ambani's extravagant pre-wedding party, which wrapped up Sunday."
• Andrey Melnichenko, cleverly saved his warship inspired $300 million superyacht from being seized by the Western authorities - "With its tracker turned off for a year and docked near Dubai, the 390-foot-long vessel may now be seized by Russian itself. Multi-billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, Russia’s richest man worth $24.4 billion per Forbes, is in trouble almost as big as his megayacht, 470 feet long Sailing Yacht A. He has become the target of a lawsuit from the Russian government concerning a deal to buy an energy company. What will entail now is the possible seizure of his company Sibeco, and his prized possessions. That also depends on whether the government can get its hands on them. Melnichenko is no ordinary billionaire but one of Russia’s leading businessmen, the founder of EuroChem, and Suek, worth $24.4 billion."
• Ann Getty, Publisher & Bicoastal Arts Patron, Is Dead at 79 - "She married into one of the world’s richest families but refused to let herself be marginalized as a socialite."
• Are billionaires really self-isolating on superyachts? - "When entertainment mogul David Geffen shared an image of his superyacht 'Rising Sun' at sea alongside the caption 'isolated in the Grenadines' last month, it's fair to say the post ruffled a few feathers."
• Are You Rich? A New Study Defines What It Means To Be Wealthy - "If you’ve ever wondered what it means to be rich and at what point you might think that you’re well off, a new report from L’Observatoire des Inégalités, an independent organisation which studies inequality in French society, has come up with a number."
• Are you smart enough to work for Elon Musk? - "The favourite interview question of the world’s richest man."
• As Biden Mulls Sanctions, Three Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "Those are mysteries Forbes has grappled with for 20 years. Figuring out Putin’s net worth is probably the most elusive riddle in wealth hunting–harder than the heirs, other heads of state and even drug lords that we’ve financially smoked out over the years. Uncovering private wealth is something we take very seriously, especially in Russia–the founding editor of Forbes Russia, Paul Klebnikov, risked his life for this cause, and was shot in the streets of Moscow in 2004 as he was investigating the fortunes of Russia’s early oligarchs. So where and how much is the fortune that Biden threatens to sanction over Russia’s aggression in Ukraine? We don’t know. But over the years, leaning on sources and expertise, we’ve developed some theories."
• Asia's 20 Richest Families Control $450 Billion - "The dynasties behind Reliance, Samsung and Suntory are among the region's wealthiest. Hong Kong clans make up 30% of the list."
• Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is now among the world's 10 wealthiest people - "Ambani is the chairman and chief executive of one of India's most valuable companies, Reliance Industries. His net worth recently surged to $64.5 billion, edging out Oracle's Larry Ellison and French L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers for the No. 9 spot on the list, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Ambani is the only person from Asia on the list."
• Asian billionaire who made a fortune from war - "Stanley Ho's escape to Macao in World War II laid the foundation for his fortune. But it wasn't without controversy."
• At 21, Kylie Jenner Becomes The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Ever - Forbes.
• Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition - "Art is subjective. And while many artists long to share their work with the world, there’s no guarantee that the audience will understand it, or even like it."
• Australian billionaire revives dream to set sail on Titanic II - "'It's a lot more fun to do the Titanic than it is to sit at home and count my money,' Palmer reportedly told local media with the blunt honesty of man who earns almost half a billion dollars in mining royalties every year. For Palmer the question is not how to earn money, but where to spend it."

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• Bao Fan: Missing China billionaire banker resigns from all roles - "Chinese billionaire banker Bao Fan, who has been missing for almost a year, has resigned from all roles at his firm, China Renaissance Holdings."
• Bao Fan: Why do Chinese billionaires keep vanishing? - "The disappearance last month of technology industry dealmaker Bao Fan has rekindled interest in a recent Chinese phenomenon - vanishing billionaires. The founder of China Renaissance Holdings - with a client list that has included internet giants Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu is seen as a titan in the country's tech sector."
• Barclay twins: ‘Former estate agents’: the strange life of the Barclay twins - "Losing Telegraph newspapers will not turn remaining twin Frederick Barclay into a pauper, but it’s a bitter end to brothers’ empire-building."
• Battle in the Channel: seigneur of Sark takes on Barclay dynasty - "Christopher Beaumont is attempting to buy up abandoned hotels and other buildings owned by Telegraph billionaires."
• Battle of the super yachts: Jeff Bezos' Y721 versus Steve Jobs' Venus - "The spotlight is on Jeff Bezos' $500 million super yacht because it'll require the disassembly of a historic bridge. Here's how the Amazon founder's vessel compares to the yacht built for Steve Jobs."
• Behind Bars: Billionaires & Ex-Billionaires Who Have Served Time - Forbes.
• Behind the staggering success of MrBeast - "In the fall of 2016, Jimmy Donaldson did not seem like a future celebrity multimillionaire. The shy 18-year-old had been posting videos on YouTube for five years from his mom’s North Carolina house without much traction. After he quit school, his mother was so disappointed that she kicked him out of the house, he says. Seven years later, Donaldson, better known online as MrBeast, has 167 million YouTube subscribers – more than any other individual creator on the platform. At 25, he oversees a fast-growing empire that may be worth more than $1 billion."
• Bernard Arnault Becomes World’s Richest Person As LVMH Stock Rises - "French fashion tycoon Bernard Arnault is the world’s richest person this Monday morning, with an estimated net worth of $186.3 billion - putting him $300 million above Jeff Bezos, who is worth $186 billion, and Elon Musk, worth $147.3 billion."
• Bernard Arnault bought 3-star Parisian bistro Chez l’Ami Louis - "The latest addition to Arnault's sprawling business empire might seem unlikely - an unassuming Parisian bistro that sells $100 roast chicken and has a 3.5-star rating on Tripadvisor. LVMH announced its purchase of Chez l'Ami Louis, a 100-year-old bistro, which the company called an 'authentic Parisian gem.'"
• Bernard Arnault enters race to acquire Venice’s iconic Hotel Bauer - with bids rising over €275 million - "Billionaire Bernard Arnault has joined the chase to purchase a storied Venice hotel, one of the trophy assets put on the market in the messy fallout from the implosion of Rene Benko’s Signa Group. Despite its prime location and a history dating to 1880, the sales process has been caught up in Signa’s complex creditor entanglements."
• Bernard Arnault: Europe's richest man is joining the SPAC craze - "Bernard Arnault, the chairman of luxury goods group LVMH, is the latest billionaire to embrace Wall Street's hot new way to raise money."
• Bernard Arnault faces money laundering probe in France over 'ski-resort property deal' - "French billionaire Bernard Arnault and Russian oligarch Nikolai Sarkisov are under investigation for alleged money laundering at a luxury Alpine resort, according to Paris prosecutors. The probe concerns their activities in Courchevel, a ski resort in the French Alps known for being a playground for the ultra-rich."
• Bernard Arnault: He’s the world’s richest man. So why do we hear so little from Bernard Arnault? - "France does not expect much in the way of philanthropy from its low-profile billionaire class. Perhaps it should."
• Bernard Arnault Is Now Tied With Jeff Bezos For Richest Person In The World - "Less than a month after reaching the pinnacle of a $200 billion net worth for the third time in late April, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can no longer claim to be the richest person in the world. He now has a neighbor at the top spot: French billionaire Bernard Arnault, the head of luxury goods group LVMH, ended the day $800 million richer—with a net worth of $186 billion—after the company’s shares closed nearly half a percent higher in Europe. On the other side of the Atlantic, Amazon stock dropped by a little more than 1% on Friday, shaving $2.3 billion from Bezos’ net worth and placing both men at the $186 billion mark."
• Bernard Arnault joins Jeff Bezos & Bill Gates in $100 billion club - "Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates belong to an exclusive club of people worth over $100 billion, and it just got its 3rd member."
• Bernard Arnault Just Bought Tiffany. Who Is He? - "A field guide to the man behind LVMH, who just engineered the biggest deal in luxury - and isn’t done yet."
• Bernard Arnault plummets down the list of world’s richest men after a $54 billion collapse - "'As long as I’m not the richest man in the world, I won’t really be happy,' Bernard Arnault once said."
• Bernard Arnault pulls ahead of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk on world's richest billionaires list - "Arnault, the patriarch of the family which oversees the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy empire of brands that includes Sephora, Tiffany & Co., Christian Dior and Stella McCartney, boasts a fortune valued at $230 billion as of Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
• Bernard Arnault: Real-life ‘Succession’ story of world’s richest man, Bernard Arnault, & his kids - "Bernard is 73 years old, but he shows no interest in stepping away from his luxury empire nor relinquishing his roles as executive chairman and chief executive. LVMH shareholders recently extended the company’s working age limit to 80, and many expect Bernard will never retire."
• Bernard Arnault surpasses Elon Musk as World's Richest, Forbes Report - "Forbes magazine's latest report reveals that Bernard Arnault, the billionaire chairman of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), a conglomerate that owns numerous luxury brands, has now become the world's wealthiest individual, surpassing Elon Musk."
• Bernard Arnault: The expensive things LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault bought with his billions - "He has a staggering net worth that stands at US$190.8 Billion as on January 4, 2023. This makes one wonder how the business magnate spends his wealth and what the most expensive things owned by Bernard Arnault are. We take a look."
• Bernard Arnault: The world's richest person: How Bernard Arnault rose to the top - "A 'wolf in cashmere': How Bernard Arnault became the world's richest person. The luxury goods magnate's net worth sits at more than $240 billion."
• Bernard Arnault: World's richest man weighs which of his 5 children will take over empire - "Bernard Arnault, the richest man in the world, is the head of the LVMH empire - a $500 billion luxury powerhouse home to dozens of iconic brands like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany, Dom Pérignon, and Sephora. Like Logan Roy in the HBO series 'Succession,' he's looking to one of his children to take the reins."
• Bernard Arnault’s Bad Bet: World’s Third Richest Person Finally Unloads Stake In French Retailer Carrefour - "French luxury goods billionaire Bernard Arnault, the world’s third richest person, sold his remaining shares in French supermarket chain Carrefour on Tuesday, marking his exit from the firm fourteen years after he first invested in 2007. Arnault’s holding company, Financière Agache, sold its 5.5% stake in Carrefour at about $19 per share for a total of roughly $850 million before taxes."
• Bernard Arnault’s Fortune Surges Nearly $3 Billion Since Tiffany Deal - Forbes.
• Bernie Ecclestone spared jail after admitting tax fraud - Ex-Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was spared an immediate prison sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to misleading Britain’s tax authority about overseas assets worth more than 400 million pounds ($492 million). Ecclestone has also agreed a civil settlement with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), under which he will pay 652.6 million pounds covering tax, interest and penalties for 18 tax years between 1994 and 2022, prosecutor Richard Wright said.
• Bezos & fellow billionaires are issuing recession warnings - "Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, two of the wealthiest people on the entire planet (who generally don’t agree on much of anything), are both signaling some tension about a looming recession. Bezos earlier this week commented that it’s time to 'batten down the hatches,' in a tweet that included a video of Goldman Sachs’ CEO saying there was a good chance of a recession on the horizon."
• Bezos, Buffett, Ma And More: Biggest Billionaire Gainers Of The Decade - "Gleaned from the pages of a book purchased by accident at the University of Nebraska, Warren Buffett's investment philosophy - buy and hold stocks forever - has proven to be one of the best-performing strategies of all time. It has also paid off particularly well this past decade."
• Bezos Made Burgers, Musk Sold Video Games - "The First Jobs of World's Billionaires."
• Biden imposes sanctions on Russian oligarchs, 'Putin's cronies' - "The new penalties will target members of the Russian elite, their families and close associates, cutting them off from the US financial system. 20 oligarchs - including Putin ally Alisher Burhanovich - and 47 of their family members will face US visa restrictions."
• Bidzina Ivanishvili: Georgia’s billionaire ‘puppet master’ betting the house on Moscow - "His glass castle, a home perched atop a hill in the Sololaki district of Tbilisi that his critics say resembles a Bond villain’s lair."
• Bill & Melinda Gates are officially divorced as of Monday - "Neither party will receive spousal support or change their names."
• Bill & Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage - "Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying 'we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple'."
• Bill & Melinda Gates divorce throws spotlight on money manager - "The management of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates fortune has drawn little scrutiny, but the couple’s announced split is casting a spotlight."
• Bill & Melinda Gates tap lawyers from Jeff Bezos’ costly divorce - "Each has added high-powered attorneys who worked on opposite ends of the divorce of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from his ex-wife Mackenzie Scott."
• Bill & Melinda Gates' daughter hints that their divorce has been 'challenging' - "'It's been a challenging year, both collectively with the pandemic and for our families going through transitions,' she said, giving an oblique reference to the divorce."
• Bill & Melinda Gates's Daughter Jennifer says $130B split is 'challenging time' for family - "Melinda Gates, 56, files for divorce from Bill, 65, claiming marriage is 'irretrievably broken', court docs reveal and there is NO prenup."
• Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power plant heads to tiny Wyoming city - "Officials have announced that Kemmerer, population 2,600, will be the site of a plant featuring a liquid sodium-cooled reactor."
• Bill Gates Booked Entire Michelin-Star Restaurant For Two Days Just To Sip A Diet Coke - "Leaves Without Trying A Single Bite Of The $313 Meal - Chef Says, 'People With Money Value Things Less'."
• Bill Gates call for huge global effort to prepare for future pandemics - "Microsoft founder says research and development budgets should focus on weaknesses exposed by rapid spread of Covid."
• Bill Gates Car Collection: A Look Inside The Billionaire's Private Garage - "Bill Gates is a billionaire many times over. As one of the world's most influential techies, what does he drive?"
• Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me - The New York Times.
• Bill Gates Considers Himself To Be A 'Very Nice' Boss Compared To Elon Musk & Steve Jobs - "But His Microsoft Co-Founder Described Working With Him As 'Being In Hell'."
• Bill Gates Could Be A Trillionaire Today If He Had 'Diamond-Handed' His Original Microsoft Shares - "The narrative begins with Microsoft’s initial public offering (IPO) in 1986. Had Gates maintained his 45% stake, it would equate to $1.23 trillion today - a figure that dwarfs the net worths of Musk and Bezos."
• Bill Gates could oust Melinda French Gates from their foundation in 2023 - "Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates are giving themselves a two-year trial period to see if they can co-parent the massive charitable foundation that they have treated as another one of their children."
• Bill Gates doubts Musk's Twitter buy, says draft SCOTUS decision overturning Roe is 'pretty disappointing' - "Bill Gates sounded a note of caution this week on Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, saying the Tesla CEO 'actually could make it worse' despite a strong track record with his other business ventures."
• Bill Gates explains his vision for nuclear power - "Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates talks to CNN's Fareed Zakaria about building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming and the future of nuclear energy."
• Bill Gates explains how AI will change our lives in 5 years - "It's no secret that Bill Gates is bullish on artificial intelligence, but he's now predicting that the technology will be transformative for everyone within the next five years."
• Bill Gates Finally Explains Why He's Buying So Much U.S. Farmland - "Microsoft founder and billionaire turned philanthropist Bill Gates recently laid the long-time conspiracy theory that he owns some 80% of all U.S. farmland to rest in his 11th appearance in an 'Ask Me Anything' (AMA) session on Reddit."
• Bill Gates flounders as he is grilled on past dinners with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein - "Telling PBS's Judy Woodruff meetings were a mistake and adding: 'well, he's dead, so ..."
• Bill Gates funnels $20 billion to foundation & plans to drop off list of wealthiest people - "Bill Gates is moving $20 billion of his wealth into the endowment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is ramping up its spending in the face of global challenges including the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. 'I will move down and eventually off of the list of the world's richest people,' Gates wrote in a blog post Wednesday. 'I have an obligation to return my resources to society in ways that have the greatest impact for improving lives. I hope others in positions of great wealth and privilege will step up in this moment too.'"
• Bill Gates Harvests $113 Million In Nebraska Farmland, Takes Out $700 Million In Loans - "Over the past six years, billionaire Bill Gates has spent more than $113 million purchasing Nebraska farmland and has taken out two loans totaling $700 million against it. Many high-net-worth individuals borrow against their assets if they need money they can spend."
• Bill Gates has a ‘message’ for Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos - "He may have fallen down the pecking order in the billionaire’ list but Bill Gates is still the fifth richest man in the world and a force to reckon with. Gates who has been rather low-key in the last few months has come out and taken a ‘dig’ at two of the world’s richest men - Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos."
• Bill Gates Has Over Half of His $42 Billion Portfolio Invested in These 3 Dividend Stocks - "Do billionaires like dividend stocks? Absolutely. Just take a look at the holdings of famous billionaire investors such as Warren Buffett and Ken Griffin. They're loaded with dividend stocks. Bill Gates stands out as another great example."
• Bill Gates has rightly named his mammoth hydrogen-powered superyacht ‘Breakthrough’ - and listed it for sale for $645 million.
• Bill Gates hiding out at luxe billionaires’ golf club in California - "An insider said the 65-year-old billionaire Microsoft founder has been holed up at The Vintage Club in Indian Wells, which bills itself as 'one of the United States’ most prestigious and ultra-exclusive private country club communities,' a veritable 712-acre oasis of wealth."
• Bill Gates is hanging on to these stocks for steady income - you can too - "Let’s take a look at three dividend plays that represent sizeable positions in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. After all, investment legend and BIll’s good pal Warren Buffett is a trustee of the foundation, so it might make sense to follow along - maybe with some of your spare change."
• Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why? - "Gates has been buying land like it’s going out of style. He now owns more farmland than my entire Native American nation."
• Bill Gates is ‘very optimistic’ about the future - "‘Better to be born 20 years from now...than any time in the past.’"
• Bill Gates left Microsoft amid affair investigation - "Microsoft was investigating its co-founder Bill Gates over a 20-year-old affair shortly before he stepped down from the company's board last year."
• Bill Gates Might Have Been Richer Than Musk, Bezos Combined If... - "Bill Gates might have ended up richer than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos combined by hanging onto Microsoft Corp. rather than selling. Gates had the equivalent of 2.06 billion shares in September 1998, when the software maker first became the world's most-valuable company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Microsoft took back the top ranking from Apple Inc. on Oct. 29. Gates's 1998 holding would have been valued Friday at about $693 billion, topping Musk's net worth of $340.4 billion and Bezos's net worth of $200.3 billion. He sold the vast majority of his Microsoft stock before leaving the board in 2020."
• Bill Gates offered a hilarious gift to Warren Buffett on his 90th birthday - "Bill Gates offered a sweet and funny video tribute to his billionaire pal Warren Buffett Sunday in honor of his 90th birthday."
• Bill Gates On Advising OpenAI, Microsoft & Why AI Is ‘The Hottest Topic Of 2023’ - "The Microsoft cofounder talked to Forbes about his work with AI unicorn OpenAI and back on Microsoft’s campus, AI’s potential impact on jobs and in medicine, and much more."
• Bill Gates on Elon Musk feud & Jeffrey Epstein meetings - "In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Today programme, Bill Gates says conspiracy theories about him are 'crazy' and that being shouted at in public is 'awful'. He also told the BBC's Mishal Husain that meeting Jeffrey Epstein was a 'mistake' and talks about Elon Musk's recent public criticism of him."
• Bill Gates on the difference between Elon Musk & Steve Jobs - "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has had the opportunity to meet and work alongside major tech giants, including late Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs. In an interview with Bloomberg, Gates was asked whether his contemporary Elon Musk could be considered the 'next Steve Jobs,' due to the advancements his companies Tesla and SpaceX have made in electric cars and reusable rockets, respectively."
• Bill Gates reportedly advised to end inappropriate emails with female employee in 2008 - "A Wall Street Journal report revealed execs approached the CEO in 2008 about flirtatious emails to a female midlevel staffer."
• Bill Gates responds to allegations of affair a year after divorce - "Microsoft co-founder reflects on ‘a tough year’ after end of 27-year marriage to Melinda French Gates."
• Bill Gates says crypto & NFTs are a sham - "Those digital asset trends are '100% based on greater fool theory,' the Microsoft co-founder said Tuesday at a TechCrunch conference, referencing the notion that investors can make money on worthless or overvalued assets as long as people are willing to bid them higher. Gates added that he's 'not long or short' crypto. And he mocked Bored Apes NFTs, joking that 'expensive digital images of monkeys' will 'improve the world immensely.'"
• Bill Gates says he regrets his time spent with Jeffrey Epstein: 'It was a huge mistake' - "'It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there,' Gates said."
• Bill Gates Says Living a Happy, Successful Life Comes Down to 3 Simple Things - "Advice from Bill Gates on solving problems, using your time wisely, and why patience is a leadership superpower."
• Bill Gates tests positive for COVID-19, says he's experiencing mild symptoms - "The 66-year-old tech giant wrote in a tweet Tuesday that he is experiencing mild symptoms and is 'following the experts' advice' by isolating himself until he's healthy. 'I'm fortunate to be vaccinated and boosted and have access to testing and great medical care,' Gates tweeted."
• Bill Gates: the man with the golden Porsche - "It turns out that Bill Gates was not the only one keeping a close eye on the comings and goings at the office car park."
• Bill Gates tops Jeff Bezos as richest person in the world - "On Friday, Gates surpassed Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos to reclaim the distinction of richest person in the world, with a net worth of $110 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
• Bill Gates vehicle buys $2.2bn stake in Four Seasons from Saudi royal - "Tech billionaire cements control over luxury hotel group after deal with Prince Alwaleed."
• Bill Gates wants you to know that he still doesn’t use an iPhone - "Bill Gates has said many times that he prefers Android over iPhone, and that apparently hasn’t changed. In a recent 'Ask Me Anything' on Reddit, the Microsoft co-founder revealed that he unsurprisingly hasn’t made the switch to an iPhone nor does he use an iPad, Mac, or Microsoft Surface Duo."
• Bill Gates watched ChatGPT ace an AP Bio exam & went into ‘a state of shock’ - "‘Let’s see where we can put it to good use.’" Even tech icon Bill Gates says he was caught off-guard by the rapid development of artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT. On Thursday, Gates opened up about “the most stunning demo I’ve ever seen in my life” - a demonstration of ChatGPT’s capabilities on an AP Biology exam in August 2022, he said on an episode of his “Unconfuse Me” podcast featuring Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan.
• Bill Gates: Why I'm optimistic about the future of AI - "I believe there is huge potential to use AI to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries."
• Bill Gates’ 10 Dividend Stocks - "In this article, we discuss the best dividend stocks according to Bill Gates. You can skip our detailed analysis of Bill Gates' investment philosophy and go directly to read Bill Gates' 5 Dividend Stocks."
• Bill Gates’ $645 million fuel-cell superyacht has finally completed its extensive sea trials - "Powered by liquid hydrogen stored at a bone-chilling -423°F, nearly as cold as outer space, the mammoth vessel features an underwater lounge, a hospital, and a 29-foot contraflow pool."
• BILL GATES' FAMILY FURIOUS AT HIM - "The Bill and Melinda divorce has been a done deal for months, TMZ has learned, and they had a plan to announce it back in March ... a plan that included renting a remote, private island where the entire family - with one BIG exception - could avoid the media once the announcement was made ... sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ."
• Bill Gates' Girlfriend? All About Paula Hurd - "News of their relationship came roughly two years after Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, announced their divorce."
• Bill Gates’ issues at Microsoft, in private life before divorce from Melinda Gates - "Microsoft founder Bill Gates had a relationship with one of the company’s engineers that was deemed 'inappropriate', it’s been revealed."
• Bill Gates’ Rank On The Forbes 400 Is The Lowest It’s Been In 30 Years - "The Microsoft cofounder’s long streak as the country’s first or second richest has ended—in part due to stock transfers tied to his divorce."
• Billionaire Barclay Brothers & The Battle Over Who Controls The Family Fortune - "Twenty years ago, on the last day of October, billionaire twins Frederick and David Barclay knelt side-by-side before the Queen of England, her sword in hand. Frederick, born ten minutes before his younger brother, was first, David next, in what was described by The Daily Telegraph (the paper they would later buy) as 'the first double dubbing' - the placing of the monarch’s sword on a would-be Knight’s shoulder - 'in modern times.'"
• Billionaire David Geffen Behind Purchase Of $68 Million Los Angeles Home - "Earlier this year billionaire David Geffen cemented himself as a record holder in Los Angeles real estate when he sold his $165 million home to Amazon founder (and world’s richest man) Jeff Bezos—beating out all other California home sales to date."
• Billion-dollar dynasties: These are the richest families in America - "Forbes’ definitive ranking of the nation’s 50 wealthiest clans includes the heirs to some of the country’s best known brands: Campbell’s Soup, Jack Daniel’s, Walmart and Chick-fil-A."
• billionaire boom - "Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and six other tech titans made more than $360 billion during the pandemic, which may finally shatter the myth of the benevolent billionaire."
• Billionaire chic: the meaning of Gwyneth Paltrow’s court wardrobe - "The actor’s outfits have gone viral over the last week. Free from garish logos and colours, they are a careful display of stealth wealth and soft power."
• Billionaire closes main road in South Kensington, London for gardening work - "Ivy owner Richard Caring wins council permission to close part of Onslow Square, a busy ambulance and bus route, for two weeks."
• Billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla’s super rare Rolls Royce Silver Spur limousine on video - Cartoq.
• Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King by Anupreeta Das review - an appeal to cancel Bill Gates - "An attempt to expose the billionaire founder of Microsoft fails to land a killer blow. There are 2,781 individuals in the world worth more than a billion dollars, according to Forbes, and together these people have a net worth of $14.2tn, roughly the GDP of the Eurozone. The book sets itself up as an exposé of the billionaire’s life and secrets, his 'hidden truth', as the subtitle puts it."
• Billionaire Scientist Behind The Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Has Not Sold A Single Share Of His Booming Stock - "Uğur Şahin, the CEO and scientist behind the first Covid-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., has not sold a single share of his company’s booming stock during the pandemic, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show."
• Billionaire Streakers: These 17 People Made The First Forbes 400 In 1982 - And Are On The List Today.
• Billionaire Superyacht Showdown: Who’s Who In St. Barths For New Years 2023 - "The legendary superyacht showdown, started early with several high profile billionaires already anchored outside of Gustavia and neighboring St. Maarten, and Antigua. Many will stay throughout Christmas on the island of Antigua and then party with the traditional fireworks New Years Eve celebration in St Barths. Here is a selection of some of the largest yachts that are in and around St. Barths for the holidays. It is important to note that yachts are often privately chartered during the holidays, so you may never see their wealthy owners."
• Billionaire Superyacht Toys: The 10 Coolest Toys & Tenders For 2022 - "'Every year I am excited to compile my favorite superyacht toys that will be offered up at the Monaco Yacht Show where thousands of yacht fans descend on Port Hercules to see the most exciting new yachts and toys as well as more than 300 exhibitors.'"
• Billionaire Wealth Hits $10 Trillion For First Time Ever Thanks To Government Stimulous - "Coronavirus has boosted total billionaire wealth to its highest level ever. Since the pandemic begun, the total wealth held by billionaires around the world has grown by a quarter to over $10 trillion."
• Billionaire’s Daughter Knows What You’re Thinking - "Elizabeth Koch, the daughter of the right-wing political force Charles Koch, is working to bridge societal divides. Sure, roll your eyes. But also, why not her?"
• billionaires 2019 - "Capitalism is taking some lumps - and not just in the headlines. For only the second year in a decade, both the number of billionaires and their total wealth shrank, proving that even the wealthiest are not immune to economic forces and weak stock markets. By our latest count there are 2,153 billionaires, 55 fewer than a year ago. Of those, a record 994, or 46%, are poorer (relatively speaking) than they were last year."
• Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle - "Companies’ attempts at hazard pay have been paltry and fleeting as employees are threatened for protesting working conditions."
• Billionaires Are Actually Less Intelligent Than Lower-Paid People New Study Shows - "New research has shattered the myth that the ultra-wealthy are the smartest people around."
• Billionaires are funding a massive treasure hunt in Greenland as ice vanishes - "A band of billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates, among others, is betting that below the surface of the hills and valleys on Greenland's Disko Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula there are enough critical minerals to power hundreds of millions of electric vehicles."
• billionaires aren’t the brainboxes they like to believe - "The obscene wealth of many CEOs is less a result of intelligence and more down to luck, background and personality."
• Billionaires descend on Sun Valley in private jets to talk about climate change - "The private conference was canceled last year because of the pandemic."
• Billionaires Have More Wealth Than 60% of the World's Population, Report Finds - TIME Magazine.
• Billionaires Made a Strong Case for Abolishing Themselves - "Musk, Bezos, Bankman-Fried, Trump: some of our most prominent billionaires laid waste to their carefully cultivated image as benevolent saviors."
• Billionaires On The Brink: How The Forbes 400 Makes And Loses Billions During Market Crashes - "Meet the billionaire winners and losers of the dot-com bubble, Great Recession and Covid-19 crash."
• Billionaires report 2018 - "Welcome to the fifth edition of the UBS Billionaires Insights report: New Visionaries and the Chinese Century. Billionaires are at the vanguard of a new industrial revolution which is harnessing the great power of technology to disrupt old industries and create new ones."
• Billionaires seek sanctuary from coronavirus aboard superyachts - "Vessels are being booked for months-long charters in remote locations as the rich luxuriously self-isolate in remote destinations."
• Billionaires should not make up climate finance gaps, says Bezos Earth Fund head - "Rich countries ‘not living up to obligations’, says Andrew Steer, in charge of $10bn environmental fund."
• Billionaires Who Died In 2021 - "From a gambling tycoon with a global empire to a member of the storied Rothschild banking family, a total of 27 billionaires passed away this year, leaving behind legacies of entrepreneurship - and billions of dollars. That’s out of a total of 2,755 billionaires Forbes found for our 2021 list of the World’s Billionaires, published in April 2021."
• “Billionaires’ Dirt Road”: This Pastoral Town Is Home To Larry Fink, Georgina Bloomberg, David Letterman, Richard Gere & More - "Bill Gates’ daughter Jenn recently walked the bridal path in the equestrian-friendly town of North Salem, New York. Inside the famously private, ultra-wealthy community."
• Billionaires' Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers With Fiery Moats & Water Cannons - "Amid 'World War III' fears, apocalypse-fearing moguls are investing millions in survival strategies including rotating fireplaces out of 'Indiana Jones' and heightened tactical systems."
• Bitcoin and the wealthy - "The very rich are adding fuel to the bitcoin boom but many are wary of a bubble."
• Bloomberg Billionaires Index - launched in March 2012. "View profiles for each of the world's 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns." The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world's richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire's profile page. The figures are updated at the close of every trading day in New York.
• Britain’s richest family sentenced to jail for exploiting staff in Swiss mansion - "Prosecutors claimed four members of family underpaid staff and gave them little freedom to leave Geneva mansion."
• Britain's richest family spent more on their pet dog than they did on one of their servants - "Staff at the Hindujas’ Lake Geneva villa have accused four members of the billionaire family of trafficking and exploitation."
• Buffett Sells More Stocks, Including Goldman Sachs, With No ‘Elephant-Sized’ Acquisition On The Horizon - "Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who told investors earlier this month that he had made a 'mistake' betting on airlines, is continuing to sell stocks amid the coronavirus pandemic, the latest regulatory filing from Berkshire Hathaway shows."
• bunkers: Meet the man building bunkers for billionaires - "They are thousands of miles from conflict zones, but these home-owners are still prepping for Armageddon."

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• Calling all billionaires: here’s how to keep your superyacht Covid-free - "As the rich and famous isolate on the seas, a new catamaran is designed to keep the virus out."
• Can the super-rich solve America's budget problem? - "The proposal aims to capture more of the wealth created by the soaring stock market of the last few years. Under the proposal, America's 0.01% richest would face a minimum 20% tax on income. Crucially, it changes rules on calculating income to include gains from stocks, even if they were not sold by the investor being taxed."
• Can you solve it? Are you smart enough to work for Elon Musk? - "The favourite interview question of the world’s richest man."
• Carl Icahn is on a seven-year losing streak, but the market still loves his stock - "n October 2013, when Carl Icahn started selling his large position in Netflix, many believed the vaunted billionaire investor had done it again. The company had successfully transitioned from a DVD-by-mail rental service to video streaming, and Icahn had made a 457% return in just 14 months."
• centibillionaire - "A centibillionaire is someone with a net worth of 100 billion United States dollars ($100,000,000,000) or more."
• Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao has joined the ranks of the world's top billionaires - "Crypto CEO becomes one of the world's richest billionaires. Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao, , who runs the crypto exchange Binance, with an estimated net worth of at least $96 billion, according to new calculations from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index published Monday. Zhao's projected fortune now rivals that of Oracle (ORCL) founder Larry Ellison and surpasses that of Mukesh Ambani, the Indian tycoon whose fortune has also soared over the last two years."
• Charles Koch On Why Cannabis Should Be Legal - "The devout libertarian known for spending a fortune on political causes is now actively funding efforts to end federal marijuana prohibition."
• Charlie Munger says most money managers are little more than ‘fortune tellers or astrologers’ - "Charlie Munger has never been known to mince words, but lately he’s stepped up his patented wry criticisms of the financial world. In a little over a year, the Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman has likened Bitcoin to 'rat poison,' blasted 'gambling parlor' stock brokerages for encouraging risky investing, and compared meme stock traders to heroin addicts. And over the weekend, he continued a long-running tradition of criticizing his own industry."
• Charlie Munger says stock market ‘gambling’ is as addictive as ‘heroin’ - but he sees no way to fix it - "Speculative trading boosted “meme stocks” and shares in many other risky companies during the COVID-19 lockdowns and helped retail investors profit tremendously before the market tanked. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s lieutenant at Berkshire Hathaway and a veteran long-term investor, thinks this kind of speculative trading is akin to an addiction—one that it should be done away with."
• Charlie Munger: The Wit of Charlie Munger - "His unique combination of sharp intellect, self-deprecating humor, and timeless wisdom offers invaluable business, investing, and life lessons."
• China Mints Two Billionaires a Week - "The booming world economy has led to a rapid increase in wealth in the past year. The surge in the number of billionaires in China has made it an Eldorado for private banks - a business not without risk though."
• China orders Alibaba founder Jack Ma to break up fintech empire - "Central bank says Ant Group governance is unsound and tells it to rectify ‘illegal activities’."
• China's super-rich see fortunes plunge as economy slows - "The Hurun Rich list shows the Russia-Ukraine war and Beijing’s zero-Covid measures seriously affecting China’s most wealthy."
• Chinese billionaire has lost over 90% of his fortune - "The past few years have not been great for the super-rich in China, particularly those who built their fortune in the country’s once red-hot property market. The net worth of Hui Ka Yan, chairman of real estate developer China Evergrande, has plunged nearly 93%, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Once the second-richest person in Asia, Hui’s wealth has fallen from $42 billion at its peak in 2017 to about $3 billion, Bloomberg said."
• Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid - "China will overtake the US to become the world's largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, a report says."
• Chris Xu: Who is Shein’s mysterious billionaire founder? - "Very little is known about China’s king of fast fashion who has rapidly become one its richest men."
• Christmas has come early for Jeff Bezos - "His humungous $500 million sailing superyacht is complete and ready for the centibillionaire to take delivery."
• Cities With The Most Billionaires 2024 - "Just ten cities are home to nearly a quarter of the world's billionaires. Here's where they choose to live."
• Clamour for wealth tax grows after revelations about super-rich’s affairs - "Data leak published by ProPublica fuels calls to tighten up system which sees ultra-wealthy pay little or no tax."
• A coal billionaire is building the world’s biggest clean energy plant - "Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world’s biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland."
• Concern over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover wipes $126bn off Tesla value - "Fears that carmaker’s CEO may have to sell shares to fund $44bn acquisition of social network."
• Could sanctions leave oligarchs’ super yachts high & dry in Spain? - "Russia’s wealthiest men own vessels worth millions. Now penalties might make it illegal to supply or service them."
• Covid created 20 new ‘pandemic billionaires’ in Asia, says Oxfam - "While wealthiest got richer, 140m people fell into poverty as jobs were lost, wiping out years of gains for poorest, report finds."
• Covid vaccine profits mint 9 new pharma billionaires - "Topping the list of new billionaires are Moderna (MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel and Ugur Sahin, the CEO of BioNTech (BNTX), which has produced a vaccine with Pfizer (PFE). Both CEOs are now worth around $4 billion, according to an analysis by the People's Vaccine Alliance, a campaign group that includes Oxfam, UNAIDS, Global Justice Now and Amnesty International."
• Crazy rich Indian mansions: from Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia to Shah Rukh Khan’s Mannat & Gautam Singhania’s JK House - "Take a peek inside 5 of the country’s most OTT luxury homes."
• Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky treats himself to a "little Versailles" in Essonne, France - "The billionaire bought the Château du Marais, 40 kilometers southwest of Paris, to transform it into a luxury hotel."

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• Danish Fashion tycoon named richest person in Scotland for second year running - "Anders Holch Povlsen has been named the richest person in Scotland for the second year in a row, the Sunday Times Rich List 2023 has revealed. He saw his fortune increase by £2 billion in the last year and is now worth £8.5 billion, compared to £6.5 billion last year."
• Denise Coates: The ultimate gambler? How Denise Coates became Britain’s richest woman - "She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night. With a family fortune of £7.5bn, she pays her taxes and donates to charity. But is there a wider human cost to her huge success?"
• Despite Robinhood’s Rocky IPO, Each Cofounder Is Now Worth Billions - "Popular stock trading app Robinhood listed its shares on Thursday in what turned out to be a downbeat IPO. But while shares closed down 8% from the initial offering price of $38 a share, the company’s two founders are now worth billions of dollars each."
• Did X Æ A-XII cut your hair, Elon? World's richest man, 50, sports wild new look (years after getting hair transplant) - "Musk, 50, was photographed at Miami International Airport sporting a quirky Mohawk while wearing a Western-style all black ensemble."
• Disney heir joins other Democrat backers to pause donations until Joe Biden steps aside - "Abigail Disney says choice to suspend donations is based on ‘realism, not disrespect’, and suggests Kamala Harris as an alternative."
• Divorces of the rich and famous: a 1% solution or the start of a trend? - "With such high-profile splits at Bill and Melinda Gates and Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos, some say the wealthy play by their own rules but celebrities often set standards the rest of us follow."
• Dmitry Rybolovlev: Russian billionaire loses Sotheby's art fraud lawsuit involving ‘Salvator Mundi’ - "A federal jury on Tuesday ruled in favor of Sotheby's at a trial in which the Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of defrauding him out of tens of millions of dollars in art sales."
• doctor to the wealthy - at $40,000 a year - "Private Medical is at the forefront of a new type of health care for the ultra-wealthy that has taken concierge medicine to a whole new level. The company, founded by Dr. Jordan Shlain, pioneered a highly personalized, all-in-one service that’s more akin to the most sophisticated family offices for investments. The rise of family office-style medical practices reflects the surge in wealth among families worth $100 million or more and growing demand for hyper-personalized, data-driven health care from an aging class of billionaires and millionaires."
• Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes 400 For First Time In 25 Years - "Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year’s Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people. The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago, when he stood at No. 339 on the ranking, but he is down $600 million since the start of the pandemic. Technology stocks, cryptocurrencies and other assets have thrived in the Covid era. But big-city properties - which make up the bulk of Trump’s fortune - have languished, knocking the former president out of the nation’s most exclusive club."
• Donald Trump: How will Donald Trump pay the $438m he owes in penalties from civil trials? - "Two giant penalties handed down in a matter of weeks will cost him millions - and that's only part of what he could owe."
• Donald Trump overstated net worth by up to $3.6bn, says New York attorney general - "Donald Trump overstated his net worth by as much as $3.6bn between 2011 and 2021, the attorney general of New York state said in a court filing first reported by CNBC on Friday - a $1.4bn increase on a previous filing that put the top amount at $2.2bn."
• Donald Trump’s Great Escape: How The Former President Solved His Debt Crisis - "The 45th president was chained to money-losing real estate and drowning in debt when he left office. Now, magically, he is flush with cash and free to deal - thanks to a little help from powerful friends."
• Donald Trump's hubris has brought about the downfall of his family's business empire - "Even the giant fortune Trump inherited from his father did not stop him from steering the family's dynasty on to the rocks."
• Donald Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73 Million Since Its Launch, Filing Shows - "A new SEC filing shows Truth Social's parent firm TMTG lost $50 million in 2022 and another $23 million in the first half of 2023."
• Dubai throws open the doors for the rich Russians escaping sanctions - "Red carpet for rich Russians: Why oligarchs escaping sanctions are heading for Dubai. Roman Abramovich said to be among those looking for a luxury base in the UAE, which is unafraid to snub the west."
• Dynasty trust - "The Bezos clan and other ultra-rich American families use 1 specific legal maneuver to pass wealth up to a whopping 40 more generations - here's how they protect their hoard."

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• Edmond Safra’s supposed killer arrested in Texas after vehicle theft - "Ted Maher, who spent eight years in jail after allegedly setting fire to a Monaco penthouse in 1999, killing two people, has been arrested in San Antonio, Texas following a FBI investigation. However, the Safra case was shrouded in uncertainties and doubts, despite Maher’s conviction for setting a fire that led to the billionaire banker’s death. Famously, Maher escaped from Monaco’s jail before being apprehended again in Nice."
• Elon Musk & Hertz can't agree on Tesla orders - "When Hertz announced last week that it had ordered 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla, both companies saw their share prices soar. Tesla even topped $1 trillion in market value. The companies are now bickering over whether or not they signed a deal, sending shares lower."
• Elon Musk & Grimes secretly welcomed their second child in December - a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl Musk.
• Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg say they’re ready for cage fight - "Twitter owner and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Musk recently tweeted that he would be 'up for a cage fight' with Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta. In an Instagram story Wednesday, Zuckerberg fired back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet overlaid with the caption: 'Send Me Location.' Musk then responded to a tweet about the fight by Alex Heath, editor of tech news website Verge, with 'Vegas Octagon' - a reference to the Las Vegas arena that hosts the Ultimate Fighting Championship."
• Elon Musk & Tesla Set Their Sights on a New Industry - "Musk now wants to expand the number of games compatible with Tesla cars. And to do this, he is aiming big. The billionaire wants to include more than 50,000 video games available on the popular platform Steam in the Tesla infotainment system."
• Elon Musk & Ukraine? - "An international shitposting incident, explained."
• Elon Musk: $44 billion & eight months later. It’s finally all over for Elon Musk - "Twitter is now threatening to sue Meta and Elon Musk is resorting to personal attacks, tweeting 'Zuck is a cuck' and literally challenging Zuckerberg to a d*** measuring contest."
• Elon Musk: A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies & emojis - "A controversial tweet may make it to the news, but reading every post from the world’s richest man shows how frenzied and extreme he really is."
• Elon Musk agrees with tweet accusing Jewish people of ‘hatred against whites’ - "Owner of X responds to antisemitic tweet calling it ‘the actual truth’ and criticizes Anti-Defamation League."
• Elon Musk Almost Sold Tesla To Google for $11 Billion - "But He Called The Deal Off When He 'No Longer Needed A Savior' After Sales Surged."
• Elon Musk announces he is selling his last home a little more than a year after vowing to 'rid himself of all possessions' - "A little more than a year since his vow last May to sell nearly all of his possessions, and 'own no house,' billionaire CEO Elon Musk appears to be nearing his goal, announcing Monday that he plans to sell his last remaining home."
• Elon Musk asked Tim Cook to make him CEO of Apple, new book claims - "As if Elon Musk isn't running enough companies, he once may have suggested taking over as CEO of America's most valuable business, Apple."
• Elon Musk bashed by heavy metal drummer who cost him $56 billion - "Elon Musk suffered one of the biggest legal losses in U.S. history this week when the Tesla CEO was stripped of his $56 billion pay package in a case brought by an unlikely opponent, a former heavy metal drummer."
• Elon Musk Beats Jeff Bezos To U.S. Air Force Contract As Billionaire Space Race Blasts Off - "Elon Musk’s SpaceX has scored an early win in the billionaire race to space after the U.S. Air Force announced his Falcon rockets as one of two winners of a multibillion-dollar competition to replace Russian rocket technology."
• Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent - "The world’s richest man has inserted himself in some of the world’s most combustible conflicts."
• Elon Musk becomes world's fourth richest man on Tesla boom - "Inventor now worth $90bn, trailing Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos."
• Elon Musk begins process of rebranding Twitter as X - "In a radical rebranding, Twitter owner Elon Musk has begun the process of replacing Twitter’s iconic bird logo with X."
• Elon Musk being played by a master manipulator? - "If Elon Musk’s actions didn’t have such powerful consequences, we could sit back and enjoy the show. But, since he likes weighing in heavily on consequential matters, the rest of the world has to worry about the impact and wonder whose side he’s on. What are the principles - moral, ethical, financial - that drive his rambunctious forays into world affairs?"
• Elon Musk biography is just hitting shelves - "But the book’s acclaimed author is already walking back a major claim."
• Elon Musk booked a trip to space with Virgin Galactic - "Musk and Branson aren't the bitter rivals you might expect."
• Elon Musk breaks Guinness World Record for largest loss of personal fortune - "Elon Musk can add a new title to his resume: Guinness World Record holder. The 'Technoking' of Tesla made it into the record books thanks to an abysmal 2022 which saw his fortune shrink by $182 billion, the organization announced Friday in a release that cited data from Forbes."
• Elon Musk breaks silence after 10 million Twitter users vote for him to step down - "The billionaire says only paid Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to vote in future policy-related polls on the platform."
• Elon Musk briefly loses title as world's richest person to LVMH's Bernard Arnault - Reuters.
• Elon Musk: Buying Twitter was Elon Musk’s $44bn gamble. It might be working - "Two years after the takeover the platform ‘X’ is losing billions, but it’s still setting the political agenda and has had some success in promoting his libertarian views."
• Elon Musk buys 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the largest shareholder - "News of the purchase sent shares of Twitter (TWTR) soaring 22% in early trading. Musk did not disclose what he paid for the shares, but his stake was worth $2.9 billion as of the close of trading Friday, and $3.5 billion after the spike early Monday."
• Elon Musk claims he has acquired Twitter ‘to help humanity’ - "Tweet comes as advertisers fear one of his first moves as chief will be to restore Donald Trump’s account."
• Elon Musk claims he's creating a Gmail rival dubbed 'XMail' - "In an exchange on his social media platform X, Musk has revealed that a product called 'XMail' is 'coming'. He's offered no more details about the service, so it's unclear when it may be available, although it's expected to be integrated within the X app."
• Elon Musk countersues Twitter over $44bn deal amid fresh legal action by shareholder - "Musk’s 164-page filing is under wraps for now, as Twitter shareholder launches separate action to force entrepreneur to close the deal."
• Elon Musk credits diabetic drug for his 'ripped' look - "What you need to know about the new treatment that’s gone viral on TikTok. Accident and emergency doctor Michael Daignault says an effective weight-loss treatment would be a game-changer for millions suffering from obesity."
• Elon Musk declares Twitter ‘moderation council’ - as some push the platform’s limits - "Conservative users began recirculating conspiracy theories as others voiced concerns over allowing hate speech and disinformation."
• Elon Musk denies affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife - "Tesla boss Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder, Sergey Brin."
• Elon Musk denies report he spoke to Putin about use of nuclear weapons - "Tesla boss, who recently floated his own peace plan, rejects claim he talked to Russian president about the war in Ukraine."
• Elon Musk denies sexual misconduct allegations - "The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has denied claims that he groped and exposed himself to an employee at his SpaceX rocket company six years ago."
• Elon Musk details his plan to turn Twitter into a bank - "Supposedly, it’ll be simple: one balance that you can spend within the Twitter payment network, or outside it using a debit card or checks."
• Elon Musk echoes the anti-tech take of notorious terrorist ‘the Unabomber’ Theodore Kaczynski - ‘He might not be wrong.’
• Elon Musk feuds with Apple over Twitter advertising - "Elon Musk has said Apple has halted most of its advertising on Twitter and accused the company of threatening to remove the platform from its app store."
• Elon Musk founds new AI company called X.AI - "Name of new Nevada-incorporated organization suggests link to billionaire’s interest in everything app."
• Elon Musk Gave Tesla Employees a Masterclass on How to Run Efficient Meetings - "Meetings are more expensive than you might think, and there are four simple ways to reduce their cost."
• Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home - "After making billions in tax-deductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX gave away far less than required in some years - and what he did give often supported his own interests."
• Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report - "Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications."
• Elon Musk has been inescapable in this election. How could he affect the results? - "Tesla and SpaceX chief’s behavior sets him apart from even the most politically active billionaires - serving as a Trump policy adviser and mega-donor."
• Elon Musk has lost a bigger fortune than anyone in history - "Elon Musk’s wealth destruction has become historic. The CEO of Tesla (TSLA), SpaceX and Twitter is worth $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, good enough for second place on the list of the world’s richest behind LVMH (LVMHF) Chairman Bernard Arnault. But at its peak in November 2021, Musk’s net worth was $340 billion."
• Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter & fired its top executives - "Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, a source familiar with the deal told CNN Thursday, putting the world’s richest man in charge of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms."
• Elon Musk Has the World’s Strangest Social Calendar - "When the world’s richest man isn’t tweeting, he’s flying to Burning Man, trying to impress comedians and hopping on yachts."
• Elon Musk Helped Elect Trump. What Does He Expect in Return? - "The world’s richest man gave his money and time in campaigning for the president-elect and now is putting in his requests for a friendlier regulatory environment."
• Elon Musk: How Many Children Does Elon Musk Have? - "Name-change documents filed in Texas show that the outspoken entrepreneur recently fathered twins with Shivon Zilis, a director at one of his companies."
• Elon Musk: How Tesla Shareholders Upheld Elon Musk’s Sky-High Pay - "Tesla shareholders on Thursday voted to reaffirm a roughly $48 billion compensation package for Elon Musk, which was originally approved in 2018 and was nullified by a judge early this year."
• Elon Musk: How the world's richest person bought Twitter - "It was a cool evening in late March in San Jose. A hastily organised meeting had been arranged at an Airbnb to host the world's richest person. The meeting was a big one for Twitter. Elon Musk had recently become Twitter's largest shareholder. Now there was talk that he wanted to join the company's board."
• Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution - "It is a perfect marriage for an age of plutocracy: Twitter with its serious problems and Elon Musk, the embodiment of those problems. What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?"
• Elon Musk is a showman, not an accountant - "Put simply: Musk is the world’s wealthiest person. And he wants to remain the world’s wealthiest person. To do that, he’s got to keep up the role of the eccentric genius sidekick to Trump’s strongman in the White House."
• Elon Musk is conspicuously quiet after Twitter users vote for him to step down - "Is Elon Musk resigning as “chief Twit” or not? That’s the question remaining to be answered this Monday evening, more than 12 hours after an unscientific poll posted by the Twitter CEO resulted in 57.5% of participants voting that he should step down as head of the beleaguered social media company."
• Elon Musk is going all-in on Donald Trump - "Musk is now publicly endorsing Trump’s presidential reelection bid. And the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Monday that Musk is now planning on supporting Trump’s presidential campaign by committing $45 million a month to a new super PAC backing the former president."
• Elon Musk is no longer world's richest man - "Elon Musk is no longer the world's richest man after a sharp drop in the value of his shares in electric car company Tesla this year. According to both Forbes and Bloomberg, Mr Musk has been overtaken at the top spot by Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury goods group LVMH."
• Elon Musk is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MP - Who praises him for being a 'stout proponent of free speech' and 'enabling' Ukraine to communicate after Russia's invasion."
• Elon Musk Is Now The Fifth Richest Person In The World - "Elon Musk's meteoric rise up the Forbes Billionaire List has continued this month, as he’s ascended past luminaries such as Warren Buffett and Steve Ballmer. As of Monday afternoon, Musk's net worth surpassed $74 billion, meaning he is now the fifth-richest person on the planet."
• Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world, passing Jeff Bezos - "Elon Musk just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion. Thursday’s increase in Tesla’s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion."
• Elon Musk is now tied with Bill Gates as world's second richest man - "Elon Musk's rocket-like climb up the ranking of the world's richest men continues. The Tesla (TSLA) CEO's net worth soared on Monday as shares of his electric automaker hit a record high, boosting his net worth to $127.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index, which tracks the world's 500 wealthiest people."
• Elon Musk is pictured for the first time with Neuralink director Shivon Zilis & the twins they quietly had together via IVF in November 2021 - "Strider and Azure were born just weeks before their half-sister Exa Dark Sideræl. Elon Musk has nine children aged 19 to just one from three different mothers."
• Elon Musk is placing a bet on robots. It could be a long time coming - "Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that he believes the company's goal of a humanoid robot is the most important thing it's working on."
• Elon Musk is poised to collect $23bn bonus after Tesla reports record profits - "World's richest man just got a whole lot richer!"
• Elon Musk is promising to unveil the future of Tesla tonight - "Elon Musk and Tesla have pledged a game-changing moment in the company’s history Thursday night. It remains to be seen if they will actually deliver."
• Elon Musk is sharing some details about his immigration path. Experts say they still have questions - "The billionaire tech tycoon opened up about some of it over the weekend in a series of posts on the platform he owns, X, hours after the Washington Post reported that Musk began his career working illegally in the US when he was building a Silicon Valley startup in the 1990s."
• Elon Musk is the gift that keeps on giving to Mark Zuckerberg - "If Musk is a boon to Zuckerberg’s fortunes, he’s an unlikely one. Zuckerberg and Musk have often been at odds over the years."
• Elon Musk is the richest person ever, Forbes says - "Elon Musk is worth more than twice Warren Buffett & has $100 billion on Jeff Bezos."
• Elon Musk is the richest person in the world again - "The Tesla CEO was unseated from the top spot by Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury brand LVMH (LVMHF), in December of last year, making Musk No. 2 on the list for more than two months. As of Monday, however, Bloomberg reports that a rally in Tesla stock has lifted Musk back to the top of its real-time Billionaires Index. Musk’s net worth was some $187.1 billion as of Monday after markets closed, according to Bloomberg, just topping the $185.3 billion fortune of Arnault."
• Elon Musk ‘joke’ tweet charges debate over struggling club’s future - ‘I’m buying Manchester United’ - "Billionaire’s claim was welcomed by fans unhappy about the team’s current American owners - but he quickly clarified he wasn’t serious."
• Elon Musk just bought Twitter. Here are the winners & losers - "After months of uncertainty and legal threats, Elon Musk has officially purchased Twitter. Here's who stands to gain and lose the most now that the deal has gone through."
• Elon Musk just made Donald Trump's life a lot more difficult - "On Tuesday, Elon Musk confirmed it: He wants Donald Trump back on Twitter. 'I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump, I think that was a mistake,' Musk, who is in the process of buying the social media company, said at a Financial Times conference. 'I would reverse the perma-ban. ... Banning Trump from Twitter didn't end Trump's voice, it will amplify it among the right and this is why it's morally wrong and flat out stupid.'"
• Elon Musk just sold 1 million Tesla shares to cover $1 billion in taxes - "Elon Musk has sold his first block of Tesla shares since 2016, exercising some stock options and then selling a portion of that to raise the cash he'll need to pay taxes on the shares he acquired."
• Elon Musk Lands The Hottest Gig in Hollywood - "Tesla's billionaire CEO just landed one of the hottest gigs. Musk has just announced that he now has a new task to accomplish: he will open a show by comedian Chris Rock, who has been in the news for several months after the Slapgate scandal."
• Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI - "'The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.'"
• Elon Musk Launches Perfume Called Burnt Hair! - "Elon Musk, the best of the megalomaniacs and billionaires worldwide, and a perfume salesman: finally, among other things, he launched a perfume! It is called Burnt Hair and described as the essence of repugnant desire and the finest fragrance on Earth."
• Elon Musk lawyers say twitter refusing new $44b bid for company - "Judge delays Twitter trial, gives Musk time to seal buyout."
• Elon Musk makes splashy visit to Twitter headquarters carrying sink - "Tesla CEO changes his profile to ‘Chief Twit’ as Friday deadline to finalize his takeover deal nears."
• Elon Musk makes 'things good' with California bakery after $2,000 pie fiasco - "Tesla had ditched an order for 4,000 mini pies, but the X owner paid the debt after the incident received attention."
• Elon Musk, Management Guru? - "Why the Twitter owner’s ruthless, unsparing style has made him a hero to many bosses in Silicon Valley."
• Elon Musk may want a WeChat for the world. It won’t be easy to build - "Elon Musk is taking inspiration from China’s top social media platform, WeChat, while planning a future for Twitter. And while he has shared very few details of his ambition for an app for everything, experts say it won’t be easy to achieve."
• Elon Musk named Time magazine's 2021 Person of the Year - "The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune. He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun; he drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. With a flick of his finger, the stock market soars or swoons. An army of devotees hangs on his every utterance. He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops."
• Elon Musk names NBCU ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter CEO - "As CEO, Yaccarino will face a long list of challenges that have piled up under Musk’s ownership, including an advertiser exodus, service disruptions, regulatory scrutiny and a growing list of rivals. Musk’s controversial policy changes and statements have also alienated some longtime Twitter users."
• Elon Musk, Nearing $300 Billion Fortune, Is The Richest Person In History - "Thanks to a blowout earnings report and a big car order by Hertz, Tesla’s market cap surpassed $1 trillion on Monday - and CEO Elon Musk has emerged as the richest person in the history of the world."
• Elon Musk nearly doubles Zuckerberg wealth gain - "Elon Musk nearly doubled Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth gain through the first 6 months of 2023 with a massive $96.6 billion surge. Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index made an average of $14 million per day over the past six months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It was the best half-year for billionaires since the back half of 2020, when the economy rebounded from a Covid-induced slump."
• Elon Musk 'not above the law', warns US regulator - "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said new chief executive Elon Musk was 'not above the law'."
• Elon Musk now has over 100 million Twitter followers - "But how many of them are bots?"
• Elon Musk Now Lives in a $50,000 Prefab Tiny House in Texas - "After selling most of his real estate portfolio, the multibillionaire is now living in a 400-square-foot unit on his SpaceX Texas site."
• Elon Musk offered a Florida teen $5,000 to delete a Twitter account tracking his jet. It wasn't enough - "Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old from Florida, rejected a $5,000 offer from Elon Musk to delete his Twitter account that tracks the billionaire's private jet."
• Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41.4bn - "Tech entrepreneur makes offer of $54.20 a share in cash for microblogging site."
• Elon Musk offers to sell Tesla stock 'right now' if UN can show how $6 billion would solve world hunger - "His comments came after UN World Food Programme (WFP) director David Beasley challenged the ultra-wealthy - and in particular the world's two richest men Jeff Bezos and Musk - to 'step up now, on a one-time basis' to help solve world hunger in an interview with CNN last week."
• Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says - "In addition to world’s richest person, who has $251bn, report names others on track to receive trillionaire status."
• Elon Musk ordered Starlink to be turned off during Ukraine offensive, book says - "Elon Musk ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian warships, according to a new biography."
• Elon Musk paid for our attention, but the price to keep it is getting higher - "Is it possible for Musk to be overexposed?"
• Elon Musk Passes Bernard Arnault To Become The World’s Second Richest Person - "The Tesla and SpaceX chief has added more than $120 billion to his net worth in less than a year. Tesla’s billionaire cofounder and CEO Elon Musk overtook LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault to become the second richest person in the world on Tuesday, according to Forbes, as Tesla stock continued to soar ahead of its inclusion in the S&P 500 Index later this month and an upcoming $5 billion share sale."
• Elon Musk Passes Mark Zuckerberg To Become The World’s Fourth Richest Person - "Tesla’s billionaire cofounder and CEO, Elon Musk, overtook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to become the world’s fourth-richest person on Wednesday, as Tesla’s stock continued to skyrocket following news that it will be added to the S&P 500 Index late next month. Shares of the electric-vehicle maker surged nearly 10% as of 2:25 p.m. EST on Wednesday, pushing Musk’s net worth up by $8.3 billion, to $105.4 billion."
• Elon Musk plans to cut 75% of Twitter staff if he takes over company - report - "The news comes at a difficult time for the company, which had announced hiring freezes and has seen low employee morale."
• Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter revenue by 2028 - "If Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to acquire Twitter is greenlit by shareholders and regulators in the coming months, the wealthy entrepreneur believes he’ll be able to quintuple the company’s revenue by 2028."
• Elon Musk posts baseless conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack on Twitter - "Post comes days after Musk takes over social media platform amid concern that hate speech will run rampant under his leadership."
• Elon Musk predicts superhuman AI will be smarter than people next year - "His claims come with a caveat that shortages of training chips and growing demand for power could limit plans in the near term."
• Elon Musk reinstates Twitter accounts of suspended journalists - "On a wild day of bans, sudden U-turns and chaotic messaging, Musk abides by Twitter poll result that favoured restoring the accounts of reporters he accused of ‘doxxing’ him."
• Elon Musk reports testing positive for Covid-19 for second time - "‘I supposedly have it again (sigh), but almost no symptoms,’ Tesla and SpaceX billionaire tweets."
• Elon Musk Reveals the Person He Despises - "'Paul Ehrlich has done immense damage to humanity,' Musk said on Twitter on June 26, commenting in a post that Ehrlich's book had a bad impact in India. 'Immense. I despise him.' Ehrlich, 91, became known for 'The Population Bomb,' which he wrote with his wife, Anne, in 1968. The richest man in the world is divisive. While he's made a lot of enemies and attacked a lot of people, Musk has rarely indicated he abhors anyone."
• Elon Musk says AI will take all our jobs - "Elon Musk says artificial intelligence will take all our jobs and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. While speaking remotely via webcam at VivaTech 2024 in Paris, Musk described a future where jobs would be 'optional.'"
• Elon Musk says Apple's boss snubbed takeover deal - "Tesla founder Elon Musk says that Apple chief executive Tim Cook snubbed talks to buy the car company back in 2017."
• Elon Musk says he will leave Twitter CEO role after he finds a successor - "Twitter owner Elon Musk confirmed Tuesday evening he will step down as the company’s CEO, but only when he identifies a successor, directly addressing for the first time a Twitter poll he created this week in which millions of users voted for his ouster."
• Elon Musk says he will pay more than $11bn in tax this year - "Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and the chief executive of the electric car company Tesla, has said he will pay more than $11bn in tax this year - which could be a record amount of annual tax paid by a single person."
• Elon Musk says he will start 'TruthGPT' AI as a rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT - "Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that he calls 'TruthGPT' to challenge the offerings from Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Google (GOOGL.O). He criticised Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of 'training the AI to lie' and said OpenAI has now become a 'closed source', 'for-profit' organisation 'closely allied with Microsoft'."
• Elon Musk says he will step down as Twitter CEO if voted out by a poll he tweeted - "Twitter’s mercurial new boss may be out the door after less than two months on the job, if results of a Twitter poll go against him. Elon Musk tweeted a poll Sunday evening asking people to vote on whether he should step down as Twitter’s CEO. Musk said he would abide by the poll’s results. As of Sunday evening, 'Yes' was winning by a margin of 58% to 42%."
• Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation - "Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a 'major act of war'."
• Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter's Trump ban - "Elon Musk said Tuesday that he would restore former President Donald Trump's banned account on Twitter if his deal to acquire the company is completed."
• Elon Musk says he’s homeless & ‘rotates’ among friends’ houses - "Tesla and Space X founder has an estimated net worth of $251bn."
• Elon Musk says he's seriously considering creating a new social media platform - "Elon Musk said he is giving 'serious thought' to creating a new social media platform in a tweet Saturday. Musk's tweet follows criticism of Twitter, where he claimed the platform doesn't allow for free speech."
• Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is on hold - "'Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,' Musk tweeted on Friday."
• Elon Musk says his offer to buy Twitter is about 'the future of civilization,' not making money - "Elon Musk defended his offer to purchase Twitter on Thursday, saying during an on-stage interview at the TED conference that he sees the acquisition as nothing less than a turning point for civilization."
• Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted wireless brain chip - "Tech billionaire Elon Musk has claimed his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human. The company's goal is to connect human brains to computers to help tackle complex neurological conditions."
• Elon Musk says Tesla has not signed deal with Hertz - Last week, shares in Tesla jumped 12.6% after Hertz said it had ordered 100,000 vehicles by the end of 2022. Elon Musk has said a deal between Tesla and car rental company Hertz, which led the carmaker's market value to surpass $1 trillion last week, has not yet been signed.
• Elon Musk Says the World Has a Bigger Problem than Global Warming - "'Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,' the global CEO tweeted on August 26."
• Elon Musk says Twitter may see 'slight cost' for businesses & governments - "Business and government users on Twitter may need to pay a 'slight' fee to stay on the social media platform, Tesla boss Elon Musk has said. It comes after the board of Twitter agreed to a $44bn takeover offer from Mr Musk."
• Elon Musk sees $56bn Tesla pay deal cancelled in court - "A judge in the US state of Delaware has annulled a $55.8bn pay deal awarded to Elon Musk in 2018 by the electric car company Tesla."
• Elon Musk Sells Another Big Chunk of Tesla Stock - "Twitter’s owner has now sold $23 billion worth of Tesla stock this year, much of it after he pledged in April to stop selling shares to finance his deal to acquire the social media company."
• Elon Musk sells off even more Twitter collectibles as part of rebranding auction including famous blue bird logo - "Items including oil painting of Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars selfie will be available. Bidding for all items will start at $25 following Musk's controversial rebrand to X. Musk's latest auction will last two days, beginning on Tuesday September 12."
• Elon Musk Sends Special Invitation to Bill Gates - "The CEO of Tesla has still not forgotten the doubts of his fellow billionaire. Musk's enmity with his billionaire peer Bill Gates is based on the fact that the co-founder of Microsoft (MSFT) - Get Free Report has often expressed doubts about certain ambitious projects of Tesla (TSLA) - Get Free Report, the manufacturer of premium electric vehicles and jewel of Musk's empire. Last May, Musk protested because Gates had a short position of $500 million against Tesla. Short selling stock is a bet that the stock price will drop."
• Elon Musk, Sergey Brin reportedly taking ketamine, magic mushroom, Tesla CEO says, ‘better option than ... - "Drug use, particularly psychedelics, is becoming more common among public figures and tech executives in Silicon Valley. The global psychedelics market is estimated to reach $8 billion by 2029."
• Elon Musk set to become number-one influencer on Twitter - "Tuesday, 17 January 2023 is the day analysts predict Elon Musk will become the number-one influencer on Twitter."
• Elon Musk started using a new program that blocks jet tracking - after the man who follows his plane wouldn't take his Twitter account down.
• Elon Musk sues Unilever, Mars, CVS Health & Danish renewable energy firm Ørsted over X 'boycott' - "Elon Musk's X/Twitter is suing a group of major companies, alleging that they unlawfully conspired to boycott the site."
• Elon Musk SUSPENDS Twitter account tracking his private jet movements - but Florida teen owner shares link to back-up pages on Facebook, Instagram and Telegram.
• Elon Musk: Tesla boss sells $5bn of shares after Twitter poll - "It comes days after he asked his 63 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his stake in Tesla. Tesla is the world's most valuable carmaker, with a stock market valuation of more than $1tn."
• Elon Musk sells Burnt Hair musk - "‘The essence of repugnant desire’."
• Elon Musk Takes Twitter & Tech Deals, to Another Level - "Silicon Valley moguls used to buy yachts and islands. Now they are rich enough, and perhaps arrogant enough, to acquire companies they fancy."
• Elon Musk teases release of bombshell Fauci Files in this week's Twitter document dump - "'One thing is for sure, it won't be boring.'"
• Elon Musk tells court he lacked ‘specific’ funding to take Tesla private - "CEO of electric carmaker says finance was ‘not an issue’ but he did not have binding commitments from investors."
• Elon Musk: Tesla shareholders approve CEO Elon Musk’s $45bn pay package - "Billionaire tells shareholders ‘hot damn, I love you guys’ after retaining largest-ever executive pay package at US-listed firm."
• Elon Musk: the Drama Is the Point - "Elon Musk may be looking for a better Twitter deal as $44 billion seems too high with 20% of users being fake or spam accounts."
• Elon Musk thinks he can double Twitter’s revenue through subscriptions alone - "Musk expects 69 million Twitter Blue subscribers by 2025."
• Elon Musk thinks the population will collapse. Demographers say it's not happening - "Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted, not for the first time, that 'population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming.' Climate change is a serious problem facing the planet and experts say it's difficult to compare problems. What is clear, demographers say, is that the global population is growing, despite declines in some parts of the world, and it shouldn't be collapsing any time soon - even with birth rates at lower levels than in the past."
• Elon Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal - "Elon Musk has threatened to walk away from his $44bn takeover of Twitter, accusing the social media company of 'thwarting' his requests to learn more about its user base."
• Elon Musk: To Understand Elon Musk’s Descent, Look at His $46 Billion Pay Package - "He wanted to jump-start the decarbonization of human civilization’s energy. He succeeded. He drove Tesla to create the electric vehicle industry as we know it. Yes, he overpromised. But he often overdelivered and overdelivered spectacularly. Truly wonderful things happened with Tesla’s performance as a technology inventor, deliverer and deployer."
• Elon Musk trains with UFC legend ahead of Mark Zuckerberg fight - "‘The obvious conclusion is that I need a *lot* more training,’ billionaire tweets. Elon Musk has taken part in a training session with former UFC champion Georges St-Pierre ahead of a potential bout with Mark Zuckerberg."
• Elon Musk trial: Prospective jurors call him narcissistic, smart - "Prospective jurors in a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk have a range of opinions of him, from 'smart, successful' to 'off his rocker'. Mr Musk, who is being sued by Tesla shareholders arguing he manipulated the firm's share price, has said he cannot get a fair trial in San Francisco."
• Elon Musk trolls Jeff Bezos as he widens his lead as the richest person on Earth - "Elon Musk's personal wealth is now $222 billion, widening his gap as the richest person in the world according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. Musk's personal wealth skyrocketed an extra $10.6 billion after a secondary share sale by investors, announced last week, valued SpaceX over $100 billion, CNBC reported."
• Elon Musk, Twitter & the mysterious X app - "It was beginning to feel like Elon Musk and Twitter were locked in an eternal dance. And then it came to an abrupt end - for now at least - with a short, succinct letter from Musk's lawyers to Twitter's, which announced that he intended to buy the firm after all, and an enigmatic tweet from Musk himself to his 107 million followers about creating 'X, the everything app'."
• Elon Musk: Twitter says Musk is ‘conjuring’ excuse to escape takeover deal - "Twitter rebuts billionaire’s lawsuit and his arguments for abandoning the takeover as legal standoff heats up."
• Elon Musk under federal investigation over $44bn Twitter deal - filing - "Court filing made public by social media company does not state what is being investigated, nor which federal authorities are involved."
• Elon Musk unveils his ‘Cybercab’ robotaxi - "Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled on Thursday his vision of a 'a fun, exciting future,' an 'age of abundance' full of his company’s self-driving cars without steering wheels, parking lots turned into parks and robots that will walk among the population - that he once again promised would be available within a few years."
• Elon Musk unveils prototype humanoid Optimus robot - "The robot walked around gingerly onstage and is supposedly targeting a price of less than $20,000."
• Elon Musk used government money to build Tesla. But he fears a tax on billionaires - "Its founder, the most epically rich billionaire Elon Musk, has also been known to avoid paying personal income taxes. Amazon, another massive company, has similarly been known to avoid paying corporate income taxes."
• Elon Musk v Mark Zuckerberg: why so many celebrities crave the the brutal honesty of a cage fight - "When you’re as rich and famous as they are, an ego-fuelled row over tech platforms just isn’t enough."
• Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg is ON! X billionaire claims Italian officials have AGREED to hold fight at 'epic location' in Rome - "Elon Musk has further hinted that his showdown with Mark Zuckerberg will occur at Rome's Colosseum."
• Elon Musk wants to cut this ‘terrible habit’ from his morning routine: ‘I suspect a lot of people do [this]’ - "'I have a bad habit - which I suspect a lot of people do - of immediately checking my phone [in the morning],' Musk said on the show. 'It’s a terrible habit, actually.'"
• Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who really owns X. Here's the list - "Here's the list: Bill Ackman, Elon Musk and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud are connecting with the ownership of X, formerly Twitter. Bill Ackman and Sean 'Diddy' Combs are among the list of owners of Elon Musk's X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter."
• Elon Musk was never really the world’s richest man - "The perverse maths of wealth meant the Tesla owner lost billions by selling shares that made up his net worth."
• Elon Musk: What makes Elon Musk tick? I spent months following the same people as him to find out who fuels his curious worldview - "Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family ... What would my time immersed in the Twitter/X owner’s feed reveal about the richest man in the world?"
• Elon Musk will take the stand to defend his $56 billion compensation package as CEO of Tesla - "At the same time, a manslaughter trial is set to begin in LA for a fatal crash caused by a Tesla owner operating Autopilot. As if he doesn’t have enough going on, Elon Musk will find himself in court later this week defending his $56 billion pay package from allegations by Tesla shareholders that it was rigged with easy performance targets."
• Elon Musk woos world leaders, courting controversy - "He is 'very impressed' with Emmanuel Macron. Narendra Modi can count him as 'a fan'. And Benjamin Netanyahu just dropped in to see him. A parade of foreign leaders on recent US trips, including on official state visits at the White House's invitation, have added sit-downs with Elon Musk to their schedules. This year, the world's richest man has met with, to name a few, the heads of France, Italy, India, South Korea - and, in just the past two days, Turkey and Israel."
• Elon Musk Wouldn’t Be the First Car Company Founder to Flame Out - "Before there was Elon Musk, there was William Crapo Durant. Billy Durant, as he was known, built one of the world’s biggest makers of horse-drawn carriages, bought control of Buick, co-founded General Motors."
• Elon Musk’s 9-minute jet flight from San Jose to San Francisco sparks outrage - "Elon Musk’s private jet flew from San Jose to San Francisco — a 35-mile flight that lasted a total of nine minutes, according to Twitter users who track the tech mogul’s movements. The super-short flight across San Francisco Bay took place on May 6, but Twitter users widely shared the satellite map showing the plane’s flight path over the weekend, with many expressing outrage over the carbon footprint left behind by the head of an electric car company."
• Elon Musk's antics may finally be catching up to him - "It seems the Elon Musk mystique - whatever combination of wealth, carefully cultivated charm and A-plus lawyers that have helped him emerge unscathed from countless scandals - is starting to unravel. Here's the deal: Federal regulators just announced that Musk's private space tourism company, SpaceX, will no longer receive nearly $900 million in subsidies that it was awarded last year because the company 'failed to demonstrate that [it] could deliver' the internet service it promised."
• Elon Musk’s Biggest Tesla Blunders Of The Last Five Years - "Elon Musk was in court in Delaware last week defending his role in Tesla’s acquisition of failing solar panel installer SolarCity in 2016. That questionable decision -SolarCity was founded by his cousins; Musk was its biggest shareholder and served on the board of both companies - triggered a shareholder lawsuit."
• Elon Musk's biographer saw him fly into 'demon mode' - "Walter Isaacson said Elon Musk could be 'brutal' and would go into 'demon mode' at times. It's hard to watch - but it also gets stuff done, he says. The biographer said the criticism was productive but made some people afraid to tell him the truth. Musk previously said he gave 'clear and frank' feedback to employees and hadn't 'rage-fired' anyone."
• Elon Musk's bumpy road to possibly owning Twitter: A timeline - "A board seat accepted and then rejected. A stunning $44 billion takeover offer with uncertain financing. And a surprise early morning tweet putting the deal on hold, temporarily. Even by the standards of Twitter, a company that has known plenty of chaos and dysfunction in its history, the weeks-long effort by billionaire Elon Musk to buy the company has proven to be uniquely tumultuous - and there's no clear end in sight."
• Elon Musk's childhood was 'excruciating' & he got beaten up a lot - "Musk was viciously bullied in school. His classmates pushed him down a concrete stairwell. In one instance, he was beaten so badly that he needed to go to the hospital."
• Elon Musk’s daughter legally changes name & cuts ties with her father - "‘I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,’ she said in a petition."
• Elon Musk's drug use worries Tesla, SpaceX leaders - "Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties, the Journal said, citing unnamed witnesses and others with knowledge of the matter. People close to the Tesla Inc. and SpaceX chief executive officer told the newspaper his drug use is ongoing, and that in particular he’s consuming ketamine."
• Elon Musk's famous family includes a model, several millionaire entrepreneurs & secret twins. Here are the members of the Musk family tree - "Elon Musk has had a wild life, but he's not the only member of his family to launch businesses, make millions, or achieve fame."
• Elon Musk’s father says he isn’t proud of his son - "When asked if he’s proud of his son’s accomplishments, Errol Musk says: ‘No ... we are a family that have been doing a lot of things’."
• Elon Musk’s Maniacal Drive - "Some historians and psychologists have marveled at how many of the most significant figures in history lost a parent at an early age, either to death or abandonment - from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. These are what one psychologist termed 'eminent orphans.'"
• Elon Musk’s Mushrooming Security Apparatus - "As threats to his personal safety have become graver, the world’s richest man has barricaded himself behind a phalanx of bodyguards that operates like a mini-Secret Service."
• Elon Musk’s Neuralink approved to recruit humans for brain-implant trial - "Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board."
• Elon Musk’s promised Starlink terminals have reached Ukraine - "The country’s vice prime minister asked Musk for help via Twitter."
• Elon Musk's six secrets to business success - "Elon Musk has just become the richest person in the world, overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos."
• Elon Musk’s Twitter bans CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists without explanation - "Twitter on Thursday evening banned the accounts of several high-profile journalists from top news organizations without explanation, apparently marking a significant attempt by new owner Elon Musk to wield his unilateral authority over the platform."
• Elon Musk’s Twitter faces its ‘Titanic’ moment as executives & advertisers flee while trolls run rampant - "The world is watching the world’s richest man single-handedly destroy one of the world’s most powerful and important communication platforms, just weeks after acquiring it for $44 billion. And of course, the world is watching the dramatic spectacle unfold on - where else? - Twitter."
• Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be a Wild Ride - "His deal to buy the company is back on. Here are six predictions about Twitter under Musk’s control, if it happens."
• Elon Musk’s unmatched power in the stars - "The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology."
• Elon Musk's unsolicited idea for Taiwan welcomed by Beijing, slammed in Taipei - "The world’s richest man suggested in an interview that hostilities between the two could be resolved if Taipei handed some control of the democratically governed island to Beijing, prompting praise from China and predictable outrage in Taiwan."
• Elon Musk's US tax bill: $11 billion. Tesla's: $0 - "Elon Musk has repeatedly bragged (or, perhaps, complained) that he'll pay more in federal taxes for 2021 than anyone has ever paid - about $11 billion. But Tesla apparently won't pay a cent. Tesla may not plan to pay federal taxes any time in the foreseeable future - even though the company just reported by far its most profitable year ever. In 2021, Tesla recorded net income of $5.5 billion, and adjusted income of $7.6 billion."
• Elon Musk’s wealth plummets by $12.6 billion after chaotic 24 hours at Twitter, Tesla & SpaceX - "Angry Tesla shareholders, Twitter verification chaos, and exploding rockets: Musk’s 4/20 may have been more ‘lit’ than he was hoping for."
• Elon Musk’s X is worth nearly 80% less than when he bought it, Fidelity estimates - "The social media platform formerly known as Twitter is worth almost 80% less than two years ago when Elon Musk bought it, according to estimates from investment giant Fidelity. X no longer trades publicly after Musk shelled out $44 billion to take it private in October 2022."
• Ethereum’s 27-Year-Old Co-Creator Is Now The World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire - "Vitalik Buterin, who spearheaded the launch of the Ethereum blockchain in 2015, has become the world’s youngest crypto billionaire at age 27. Ethereum’s cryptocurrency, ether, surged past $3,000 for the first time early Monday morning, marking a 325% rise since the beginning of this year."
• Europe’s Billionaires Are $1 Trillion Richer Than A Year Ago - "Bernard Arnault remains Europe’s richest person. Germany leads Europe once again with the largest number of billionaires on Forbes’ 2021 list of the world’s richest. French luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault keeps his spot as the No. 3 richest in the world, though his $150 billion fortune is nearly double the $76 billion it was a year ago, as a result of a run-up in the value of LVMH shares. Spanish fast-fashion tycoon Amancio Ortega is Europe’s second richest, worth $77 billion. While that is $20 billion more than a year ago, he dropped in rank to No. 11 richest in the world this year, down from No. 6 last year, as others - mostly U.S. billionaires - outpaced his gains."
• Everything you Need to Know About Superyacht Charter - "With the worldwide outbreak of coronavirus causing uncertainty across the travel market, the superyacht industry shares travel advice if you are planning a luxury superyacht charter amid COVID-19."

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• Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg joins centibillionaire club - "The 36-year-old follows Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as fortune passes $100bn for first time."
• Family fortunes of wealthy increase as super-rich ride coronavirus storm - "UBS says portfolios of 77% of richest investors are performing in line with or above target."
• Fashion tycoon tops Scotland's rich list - "A Danish fashion tycoon who is Scotland's biggest private landowner has gone straight to number one in Scotland's rich list."
• Fiji court rules US can seize yacht said to belong to Russian oligarch - "Vessel docked in port of Lautoka is believed to be owned by Suleiman Kerimov, who is facing sanctions."
• Fiji's unusual appeal to billionaires - "Fiji markets itself as retreat for billionaires during pandemic."
• Fleeing sanctions, oligarchs seek safe ports for superyachts - "The AP then used two online services - VesselFinder and MarineTraffic - to plot the last known locations of the yachts as relayed by their onboard tracking beacons. Many are anchored in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. But more than a dozen were underway or had already arrived in remote ports in small nations such as the Maldives and Montenegro, potentially beyond the reach of Western sanctions. Three had gone dark, their transponders last pinging just outside the Bosporus in Turkey - gateway to the Black Sea and the southern Russian ports of Sochi and Novorossiysk."
• Food & energy billionaires $453bn richer 2022 than two years ago, finds Oxfam - "While elite gather in Davos, charity calls for wealth tax after rich benefit from soaring energy and food prices."
• Forbes 400 2020: These Billionaires Have Gotten The Richest Over The Past Year - "Despite the pandemic, America’s richest people are thriving. The members of this year’s Forbes 400 list, released today, are worth 8% more on average compared to a year ago. A select group of these billionaires have been even more fortunate: The 15 biggest gainers this year saw their already-massive net worths skyrocket by at least 40%. Forbes used closing stock prices from Friday July 24 to calculate the size of the fortunes on the list, our 39th annual ranking of the country’s richest people."
• Forbes 400 2021 - "The Definitive Ranking Of America’s Richest People." A record net worth of $2.9 billion is required to make the cut, $800 million more than a year ago, as the fortunes of the nation’s wealthiest rise a collective 40% over the last year.
• Forbes 400 2022 - "The Definitive Ranking of The Wealthiest Americans In 2022." The wealthiest people in the U.S. are poorer than a year ago—and the cutoff to make the list fell for the first time since the Great Recession.
• Forbes Ultimate Guide To Russian Oligarchs - "For a quarter-century, Forbes has been investigating billionaire oligarchs, digging into their political connections, murky holdings and maze of offshore assets. Here’s everything you need to know about the wealthy elite who have profited under Vladimir Putin’s rule."
• Forbes world's billionaires list 2020 - "The richest people on Earth are not immune to the coronavirus. As the pandemic tightened its grip on Europe and America, global equity markets imploded, tanking many fortunes. As of March 18, when we finalized this list, Forbes counted 2,095 billionaires, 58 fewer than a year ago and 226 fewer than just 12 days earlier, when we initially calculated these net worths. Of the billionaires who remain, 51% are poorer than they were last year. In raw terms, the world’s billionaires are worth $8 trillion, down $700 billion from 2019."
• Forbes world's Billionaires list 2021 - "The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest exploded to an unprecedented 2,755 - 660 more than a year ago. Of those, a record high 493 were new to the list - roughly one every 17 hours, including 210 from China and Hong Kong. Another 250 who’d fallen off in the past came roaring back. A staggering 86% are richer than a year ago. Altogether these billionaires are worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020. The U.S. still has the most, with 724, followed by China (including Hong Kong and Macao) with 698."
• Forget The Trade War: Sixty New Billionaires Debut Among China’s 400 Richest 2019 - Forbes.
• FranÇois Pinault fulfils Paris art gallery dream - "Contemporary collection finds home in former grain exchange 16 years after plan for Seine island failed."
• FranÇoise Bettencourt Meyers is the Richest Woman In The World 2022 - "For the second year in a row on Forbes’ list of the World’s Billionaires, the planet’s richest woman is L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers of France. Worth an estimated $74.8 billion, Bettencourt Meyers is an estimated $1.2 billion richer than a year ago, making her the fourteenth richest person in the world."
• FranÇoise Bettencourt Meyer: L'OrÉal heiress first woman to amass $100bn fortune - "The French beauty empire founded by her grandfather is on track for its best stock market performance in decades. L'Oréal shares rose to a record high in Paris on Thursday."
• From Buffett to Bloomberg: The 25 Philanthropists In America Making The Biggest Donations - "Instead of counting money pledged—but not given away - or assets donated to charitable vehicles like donor-advised funds or foundations that slowly dribble out grants, Forbes instead counted dollars that actually reached beneficiaries."
• From Junk Bond King To SPAC Whale: How Michael Milken Became A Big Investor In The SPAC Boom - "The big money fueling SPAC mania comes from smart hedge funds - dubbed the SPAC mafia - capitalizing on a 'no lose' trade. No surprise that a fund backed by brilliant billionaire financier Michael Milken owns nearly 125 SPACs."
• From Marylebone to Caribbean: wealth of Abramovich’s business partners revealed - "Documents seen by Guardian show empire of Russian steel barons Alexander Abramov and Aleksandr Frolov."
• Fugitive Hong Kong tycoon Joseph Lau makes HK$64 million after auctioning off 414 wines at Christie’s - "Lau is selling off eight pieces of Chinese imperial porcelain at Sotheby's, plus rare wines at Christie's."

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• GATES NOTES - since 2010. "The Blog of Bill Gates."
• Gautam Adani: A coal billionaire is building the world’s biggest clean energy plant - "Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world’s biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland."
• Gautam Adani - Indian billionaire business tycoon.]He is the president, chairman and founder of Adani Group, an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. Adani is also the president of Adani Foundation, which is primarily led by his wife, Priti Adani. As of 16 September 2022, with a net worth of US$146.8 billion, he is the richest person in India and Asia, and the second richest person in the world, trailing only Elon Musk.
• Gautam Adani SAYS HE’S DEVELOPED "ADDICTION" TO CHATGPT - "ChatGPT 'was the buzzword at this year's Davos event,' Gautam Adani wrote on LinkedIn."
• Germany seizes the biggest superyacht in the world from Russian oligarch's sister - "512ft-long, US$648m vessel Dilbar with 80ft pool and two helipads is impounded at shipyard. A painstaking investigation revealed it belonged to Gulbakhor Ismailova. Ismailova is the sister of Uzbek-born Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov."
• Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition - "Art is subjective. And while many artists long to share their work with the world, there’s no guarantee that the audience will understand it, or even like it."
• Global stock market rout leaves world with 57 fewer billionaires 2019 - "Big fall in wealth in China as combined fortunes of ultra-rich dips for first time since financial crisis, says UBS."
• Global wealth report 2021 - "The twelfth edition of the Global Wealth Report, published by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, shows continued wealth growth. Total global wealth grew by 7.4% and wealth per adult reached another record high of USD 79,952. Overall, the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have not fared worse in terms of wealth creation. The most comprehensive and up-to-date resource of its kind. Our Global wealth report analyzes the household wealth of 5.2 billion people across the globe. Multi-faceted and eye-opening."
• Global Wealth Report 2023 - "Global wealth is expected to rise by 38% over the next five years, reaching USD 629 trillion by 2027. How has global household wealth developed in 2022? What are the projections for the years ahead? Find out with the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on global household wealth."
• Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners - "In an era of surging home and stock values, U.S. family wealth has soared. The trillions of dollars going to heirs will largely reinforce inequality."

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• Hamptons airport vote pits wealthy against super-rich - "Town board expected to pass plan that would allow it to limit traffic and noise of airport used by ‘the 1%’."
• Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates & Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act? - "Growing tensions between the two billionaires, over issues both substantive and stylistic, have roiled the world of philanthropy."
• He once worked at McDonald's & now he has a 347-foot-long superyacht with its own snow room - "Canadian billionaire Michael Latifi’s $200 million vessel also features a glass-bottomed swimming pool with a waterfall, a theater, and a beach club."
• Here are the highlights from Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk - "It's not every day that a major corporate lawsuit features a poop emoji, but then again it's not every day that one of the world's most influential social media platforms sues the world's richest man to make him buy it."
• Here’s How Rich Jeff Bezos Got As Amazon’s CEO - "July 5 was Jeff Bezos’ last day as Amazon CEO, ending a remarkable 27-year run that saw the e-commerce giant become one of the most valuable public companies in the world, with a market capitalization of $1.8 trillion. In the process, his fortune has increased by 12,425% - up by $196 billion since 1998, when he first appeared on The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans with a net worth of $1.6 billion. Now, he’s worth nearly $202 billion, making him the richest person on Earth."
• Here’s what Steve Jobs might have been worth with Apple valued at $3 trillion - "Apple on Monday became the first company to hit a market capitalization of $3 trillion - more than nine times what the company was worth when founder Steve Jobs died in 2011. Unlike other legendary tech moguls like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Jobs actually owned very little of Apple at the time of his death."
• Here’s where the world’s top 0.001% are putting their money, according to wealth experts - "There are about 28,420 centimillionaires globally, largely concentrated in New York City, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, London and Beijing, according to Wrise Wealth Management Singapore. The uber-wealthy live a world apart and their investing strategies also look vastly different from the average investor’s portfolio."
• HermÈs billionaire wants to bequeath fortune to his former gardener - "A descendant of Europe’s richest family has reportedly begun a process to adopt his middle-aged former gardener, planning to leave him at least half of his roughly €12 billion ($13 billion) fortune."
• Hidden wealth of one of Putin’s 'inner circle' revealed - "Leaked documents seen by BBC News show how a sanctioned oligarch from Putin's 'inner circle' hid his wealth. They reveal how a Swiss tattoo artist was falsely named as owner of a company that transferred over $300m to firms linked to Suleiman Kerimov."
• How a mysterious Putin ally, the ‘Russian Gatsby,’ moves his billions - "A trove of leaked financial records illustrates the difficulties regulators will face in enforcing sanctions on Russian oligarchs like Suleiman Kerimov."
• How a Nigerian scheme forged in war creates billionaires - "Nigeria's Igbo community have a reputation for being highly successful businessmen - partly thanks to a community-run apprentice scheme that emerged from the ruins of war, writes the BBC's Chiagozie Nwonwu in Lagos."
• How America's rich have turned pandemic into profit - "As 26 million Americans lose their jobs, the billionaire class has added $308bn to its wealth."
• How America’s Richest People Can Access Billions Without Selling Their Stock - "Many of the country’s richest people, including Elon Musk and Larry Ellison, borrow against their stock while avoiding capital gains taxes."
• How An Unknown Tax Dodge Is Creating Buyout Billionaires By The Dozen - Forbes.
• How Bernard Arnault Stitched Together The World’s Third Biggest Fortune With Louis Vuitton, Dior And 77 Other Brands - And Why He’s Not Done Yet - "The $100 Billion Man." Forbes.
• How Billionaires Got So Rich In 2021 - "The vast majority of the billionaires on this year’s Forbes list hail from these 10 sectors."
• How Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk & George Soros Pay Less Income Tax Than You - "And How You Can Replicate The Strategy. It's Legal. Most billionaires don’t get to where they are by earning a salary. And that also means they might pay less income tax than Americans who make a living through wages. According to a report from ProPublica, some billionaires in the U.S. paid little or no income tax relative to the vast amount of wealth they have accumulated over the years."
• How billionaires pay less tax than you - "Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other billionaires employ special strategies to avoid paying income tax, say experts. The 'Buy Borrow Die' mantra is a common practice among many of the ultra-wealthy."
• How China's wealth gap policy may change the world - "Changing China: How Xi's 'common prosperity' may impact the world. China says its policies aimed at narrowing the widening wealth gap are precisely what it needs in this moment of its economic trajectory - but critics say it comes with even greater control of how business and society will be governed."
• How David Geffen’s Yacht Photos Became a “Status Thing” in Hollywood - "David Geffen's superyacht the Rising Sun has become a photo op for A-list stars such as Oprah Winfrey, Chris Rock, Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio and even Jeff Bezos."
• How do the rich & famous protect their homes? - BBC News.
• How Elon Musk Built His Fortune & Became the Richest Private Citizen in the World - When eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002, Musk netted a $180 million mega-fortune from the deal. Musk didn't end up relaxing with all the things his new millions could buy. In 2002, he founded SpaceX with the almost ludicrous mission of colonizing Mars.
• How Elon Musk sold 10 million Tesla shares & increased his Tesla holdings - "Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold a massive stake in his company over the past several weeks. And yet he owns 564,000 more shares than he did at the start of the selling spree. An analysis of his filings shows Musk is not backing away from his holdings in Tesla, despite his promise to follow a poll he sent to his Twitter followers, who called on him to sell 10% of his stake. So far he's sold 10.1 million shares - about 7 million shares short of the goal. That's because at the same time he is selling shares, he's also exercising options to buy additional stock. And he's doing so at a bargain exercise price of $6.24 a share, well below 1% of Tesla (TSLA)'s current share price."
• How Elon Musk upended Twitter & his own reputation in 6 months as CEO - "When Elon Musk first agreed to buy Twitter, he promised to make the company 'better than ever,' with greater transparency, fewer bots, a stronger business and more of what he called 'free speech.' But six months after Musk took control of Twitter, the future of the company and the platform have never been less certain. After acquiring the social media platform for $44 billion in late October, Musk reportedly now values Twitter at around $20 billion - and some who track the company believe even that estimate is likely high."
• How Jack Ma built China's money supermarket into a $200 billion company - "When Jack Ma launched an obscure payment service to boost his online shopping empire 16 years ago, few expected it to succeed. Now that service forms the backbone of Ant Group, a financial behemoth that could be worth more than $200 billion."
• How Jeff Bezos’ obsessions built Amazon - "Jeff Bezos is set to beat fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson into space when he shoots off next month aboard one of his own Blue Origin rockets, the latest example of his trademark single-minded nature and competitiveness."
• How Kris Jenner Made The Kardashians Famous, Rich & Insanely Influential - "At age 51, she landed her family a reality TV show that would change everything. Fifteen years later, the 'momager' still gets a cut of her kids’ 15 businesses and, more recently, is striking out on her own."
• How London became the place to be for Putin’s oligarchs - "From its biggest private house to a disused tube station, London has long been an attractive place for the Russian president’s cronies to buy property. Their ill-gotten wealth permeated the capital at the expense of us all."
• How Many Ultra High Net Worth Individuals Are There in the World? - "In order for someone to be considered an 'ultra-high-net-worth individual,' they typically need to have at least $30 million worth of net investable assets to their name. However, this isn't really a legal definition."
• How Much Does That Oligarch’s Yacht Actually Cost? - "An accounting, down to the hull and the Picassos."
• How much money you need to be part of the 1 percent worldwide - "According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute, you need a net worth of $871,320 U.S. Credit Suisse defines net worth, or 'wealth,' as 'the value of financial assets plus real assets (principally housing) owned by households, minus their debts.'"
• How philanthropy benefits the super-rich - "There are more philanthropists than ever before. Each year they give tens of billions to charitable causes. So how come inequality keeps rising?"
• How Rich Is King Charles III? Inside The New Monarch’s Outrageous Fortune - "Even before his coronation on May 6, Charles now oversees some $46 billion in assets and inherited at least $500 million from Queen Elizabeth, including her castles, jewels, art collection and a horse farm—all of it tax-free."
• How Rich Is Putin’s Right-Hand Man? - "Inside The Murky Fortune Of Igor Sechin, The Darth Vader Of The Kremlin. The CEO of state-owned oil company Rosneft has most of his known fortune tied up in superyachts that have been frozen or seized by Western authorities."
• How sanctions on Russia are shaking up the superyacht world - "Superyachts have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks as more and more vessels linked to Russian oligarchs are temporarily frozen."
• how tech billionaires are trying to reverse the ageing process - "Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel are pouring huge sums into startups aiming to keep us all young - or even cheat death. And the science isn’t as far-fetched as you might think."
• How Tesla Shareholders Upheld Elon Musk’s Sky-High Pay - "Tesla shareholders on Thursday voted to reaffirm a roughly $48 billion compensation package for Elon Musk, which was originally approved in 2018 and was nullified by a judge early this year."
• How the 1% are coping. Lifestyles of the rich & famous - "While the rest of us face the pandemic, the wealthy are donning face masks, boarding private jets and heading for the hills."
• How the 1% Runs an Ironman - "Inside the world of Ironman XC, which makes the endurance contest a little more endurable - for executives who can afford to pay."
• How The Gates’ Split Could Stack Up Against The Biggest Billionaire Divorces - "It’s not clear how Bill and Melinda Gates will split their fortune, but here’s what’s happened with some of the other billionaire couples who split."
• How The Rich & Famous Escape The Pandemic - "For most regular people, the pandemic has meant staring at the same four walls for months on end, dreaming of when we used to be allowed to travel. However, there are much more pleasant ways to while away the time during the coronavirus crisis for those with unlimited resources."
• How the super-rich spent lockdown - "From castles and private islands to luxury underground bunkers with pools and home cinemas, we take a look at how the super-rich have spent lockdown."
• How the very rich are different in the Covid-19 fight - "While the wealthy may not be immune, their affluence makes it easier for them to insulate themselves."
• How To Get Rich In Crypto: Four Tether Executives Are Now Billionaires - "Members of the secretive management team behind the $83 billion Tether stablecoin have literally minted their own fortunes."
• How To Hide A Billion Dollars: Three Techniques The Ultrarich Use To Dodge Ex-Spouses, The Taxman & Disgruntled Business Partners - "At 81, high-frequency trading pioneer Ed Bosarge is in court battling ex-business partners, the founder of a stem cell clinic of which he took control and the wife he dumped. She says he’s got billions stashed in a constantly changing array of offshore and South Dakota trusts."
• How to tax Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos - "The Billionaires' Tax Plan being floated by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden is an excellent first step in getting the wealthiest Americans to pay something, after a century of nothingness."

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• ‘I caused pain’: Bill Gates responds to allegations of affair a year after divorce - "Microsoft co-founder reflects on ‘a tough year’ after end of 27-year marriage to Melinda French Gates."
• I'm part of the 1%. We need to acknowledge that the deck has been stacked in our favor - "I expected the wealthy would do well under Donald Trump, but not as grotesquely well as those of us in the top 1% have done. From the day Trump won in 2016 to the day he lost in 2020, the stock markets were up at least $12.7 trillion, which means that the top 1% of the 128.5 million US households - the 1.28 million that own 51% of the stock market - could each have gotten richer by an average of around $5 million."
• Igor Sechin's super yacht seized in France - "Sechin is the chief executive officer of Rosneft, one of the world's largest crude oil producers. Russian energy oligarch Igor Sechin's 280-foot Amore Vero super yacht has been seized by French authorities as part of European Union sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. When French customs officers arrived to inspect the yacht, its crew was preparing for an urgent departure despite repair work being unfinished. The yacht was immediately seized to prevent its departure."
• In messy UK divorce case, who will sail away with the £250m superyacht? - "Seizing control of the yacht would go a long way towards satisfying a London court’s £450m divorce award in Tatiana Akhmedova’s favour."
• India's 25-year-old hotel billionaire eyes a US expansion - "In just six years, Ritesh Agarwal has gone from a college dropout to one of India's youngest billionaires."
• India's billionaires got richer while coronavirus pushed millions of vulnerable people into poverty - "Mukesh Ambani — chairman of the sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries - is now worth more than $80 billion, some $15 billion more than a year ago, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Not far behind him is Adani Group founder Gautam Adani, whose wealth skyrocketed from less than $13 billion this time last year to $55 billion today."
• India's richest man is pouring more than $80 billion into green energy - "His conglomerate, Reliance Industries, announced Thursday that it would allocate a whopping 6 trillion rupees (approximately $80.6 billion) to renewable power projects in the western Indian state of Gujarat, where it hopes to help generate a million new jobs."
• India’s wealthy are still planning their travels - and they’re taking to private jets - "Private jet and charter companies witness a spike in interest from Indian families wanting to fly to luxe hotels in Maldives and Rajasthan, wellness retreats in Kerala, and safari camps in Africa."
• Indian billionaire heir Anant Ambani weds at lavish, star-studded ceremony - "After seven months of extravagant pre-wedding celebrations, Anant Ambani, the son of India’s richest man, completed his long-awaited marriage to pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Merchant before thousands of guests on Friday."
• Indian tycoon just ousted Jeff Bezos as world’s second-richest person - "Jeff Bezos just lost his status as the world’s second-richest person, dropping to No. 3 as Indian business mogul Gautam Adani’s $146.9 billion fortune rapidly climbs the ranks of Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index."
• Indian tycoon Ratan Tata dies aged 86 - "Tata was one of India's most internationally recognised business leaders. The Tata Group is one of India's largest companies, with annual revenues in excess of $100bn."
• Inside $10 Million Luxury Underground Bunkers - "Inside Oppidum’s Luxury Underground Residences Where The Ultra-Wealthy Plan On Living Out The End Of The World."
• Inside Bill Gates’ naked pool parties, affairs & friendship with Jeffrey Epstein - "Bill Gates seemed like the ultimate computer geek - but a very different picture of the Microsoft founder has emerged since announcing his divorce."
• Inside GRACEFUL Yacht - Blohm Voss - 2014 - 82m - Owner Vladimir Putin - "The Graceful yacht was built by Blohm & Voss in 2014. The superyacht is designed by H2 Yacht Design. Her owner is reportedly Vladimir Putin."
• Inside Kylie Jenner’s Web Of Lies - And Why She’s No Longer A Billionaire - "This story has been updated to include a statement from Kylie Jenner’s representatives."
• Inside Putin's Secret $1 Billion Mansion - "An inside look at Vladimir Putin's secretive $1 billion dollar palace." YouTube 6:34.
• Inside ‘The Firm’: How The Royal Family’s $28 Billion Money Machine Really Works - "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive interview with the Queen of Media has the Windsors tied in knots. Here’s how it affects their 1,000-year-old business."
• Inside the Survivalist Bunker Where Some Wealthy People Hope to Ride Out Coronavirus - "The Kansas-based Survival Condo is built to withstand a nuclear attack - but a virus, they believe, can be kept outside too. A pandemic, like any other crisis, has a way of exposing the chasm between the haves and have-nots, and perhaps the deepest trench right now is the one between the one percenters self-quarantining in dramatic and expensive fashion—and the rest of humanity. While most of us scroll social media and stay glued to cable news, Peter Thiel has a New Zealand hideaway and Jeff Bezos reportedly rules over 300,000 acres in West Texas. We’ve all probably heard about them, but did we ever really think we’d see them put to use?"
• International scheme to tax billionaires' wealth technically feasible, study finds - "An international scheme to tax the wealth of the world's 3,000 billionaires is technically feasible and could net up to $250bn a year in extra revenue, a new report says."
• It's My Privilege: Glorious Memoirs by the Very Rich - "A look back at a time when the super-wealthy felt they had nothing to lose by letting readers inside their gilded corridors."
• Italian authorities seize one of world’s largest superyachts from oligarch - "Sailing Yacht A, owned by Russian businessman Andrey Melnichenko, seized in Trieste on Friday evening."

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• Jack Ma & his three-month vanishing act - "The ebullient tech tycoon embarrassed China’s leaders and went missing. Now he’s back, but seems far less outspoken."
• Jack Ma: Chinese tycoon not seen since October - "Alibaba co-founder has fallen out of favour with Beijing, but observers cautious about drawing conclusions."
• Jack Ma is no longer China's richest man - "Move over Jack Ma. China's new richest man is a bottled water billionaire. Zhong Shanshan, the founder of the popular Chinese bottled water brand Nongfu Spring, has overtaken Alibaba (BABA) founder Jack Ma to become the country's wealthiest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index."
• 'Jack Ma is tamed': How Beijing showed tech entrepreneur who is boss - "Analysts say Ma’s criticism of authorities likely reason for Ant Group’s IPO being halted."
• Jack Ma makes his first public appearance in months - "Jack Ma just made his first public appearance in months as his tech empire continues to face scrutiny from Chinese regulators."
• Jack Ma to give up control of China’s Ant Group, firm says - "Billionaire Chinese businessman has rarely been seen in public since criticising regulators’ attitude to tech companies two years ago."
• Jack Ma's latest IPO could be biggest ever - "Ant Group's Chinese IPO could be among the biggest in history."
• Jack Ma's terrible week - "This week should have made Jack Ma China’s richest man again, and the stock market debut of his company Ant Financial should have been the largest ever."
• Jeff Bezos & girlfriend Lauren Sanchez discuss climate change with Prince Charles over a cup of tea on the eve of Cop26 - "The meeting comes two days after Bezos was criticised for celebrating Bill Gates' 66th birthday in Turkey on the Microsoft founder's superyacht."
• Jeff Bezos & Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says - "In a move that pours cold water on the dreams of a few billionaire space explorers, the US has tightened its definition of the word 'astronaut'."
• Jeff Bezos & the secretive world of superyachts - "News that Jeff Bezos has bought a 'superyacht' has revived interest in the secretive world of the uber-rich globetrotters who enjoy these ultimate status symbols. Experts say the superyacht industry has been booming for years, even during the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic."
• Jeff Bezos added $8 billion to wealth in one day - "It was a good week for Jeff Bezos: The world's richest person got even richer."
• Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post non-endorsement after subscribers flee & staffers resign - "The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, in his first public comments since igniting uproar last week over his decision to withhold the venerable newspaper’s endorsement in the presidential race, defended the move in a rare op-ed published Monday evening by the Post."
• Jeff Bezos dethrones Elon Musk to become the richest person on earth again - "The Amazon founder's net worth was $200 billion, while Musk followed at $198 billion. Musk has lost about $31 billion over the past year, while Bezos has gained $23 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
• Jeff Bezos dumped $3 billion worth of Amazon stock - "Jeff Bezos sold more than $3 billion worth of his Amazon stock this week, taking advantage of a 75% surge in his company's value this year."
• Jeff Bezos Gets $6.3 Billion Richer As Amazon Stock Hits A New Record High - Already the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos saw his net worth jump nearly 5% after Amazon’s stock hit a new all-time high on Tuesday, with the e-commerce giant experiencing unprecedented demand amid widespread coronavirus-related shutdowns.
• Jeff Bezos Has Reportedly Received the 417-Foot ‘Koru,’ the Tallest Sailing Yacht in the World - "The $485 million vessel left for its maiden voyage last Thursday."
• Jeff Bezos Is Building a 10,000-Year Clock Inside a Mountain - "The 'Clock of the Long Now,' which will tell time for the next 10,000 years, has cost $42 million to build so far.".
• Jeff Bezos is flying to space. Here's everything you need to know - "Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, is preparing for a rocket-powered, 11-minute 2,300-mph excursion to the edge of space, capping off a month filled with rocket news and a bit of drama among the world's richest people who are dedicating large portions of their wealth to rocket development."
• Jeff Bezos is giving away his $124billion fortune - "The Amazon founder plans to donate the majority of his net worth to charities fighting climate change, as well as supporting people who can help to heal political and social divisions, during his lifetime."
• Jeff Bezos is going to space for 11 minutes. Here's how risky that is - "Jeff Bezos can have anything. He could circle the globe in a private jet or sail it forever in a fleet of megayachts. He could afford to buy a the whole NFL; he could buy an archipelago for his family and friends; he could buy over 65,000 Bugatti Chirons (base price $2.9 million), even though only 500 are being built. As the world's richest person, the possibilities are endless. But Bezos appears ready to risk it all for an 11-minute ride to space."
• Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket - "Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th, just 15 days after he is set to resign as CEO of Amazon."
• Jeff Bezos is now worth a whopping $200 billion - "Jeff Bezos was already the world's richest man. Now his net worth has skyrocketed once again, setting another new record. On Wednesday, the Amazon CEO's wealth reached an estimated $202 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index, as the company's shares soared. That's up about $87 billion since January."
• Jeff Bezos is the richest person in history - CNN.
• Jeff Bezos isn’t a fan of ‘time blocking’ - "Here’s what he does instead to boost his productivity. Jeff Bezos doesn’t jam-pack his schedule or set strict time blocks for all his meetings."
• Jeff Bezos Just Added a Record $13 Billion to His Fortune in a Single Day - "Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth on Monday, the largest single-day jump for an individual since the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was created in 2012."
• Jeff Bezos just bought a $68 million mansion near Miami - "Jeff Bezos just bought a $68 million mansion on an island near Miami known as 'Billionaire Bunker' where the super wealthy rub shoulders."
• Jeff Bezos Made Over $7.9 Million An Hour Every Hour In 2023 - "In Under 13 Minutes, He Brought In The Equivalent Of What The Typical Person Earns In A Lifetime. Amazon.com Inc. Founder Jeff Bezos, a key figure in modern business, saw a massive increase in his net worth from $107 billion in early 2023 to $177 billion a year later, marking a $70 billion gain, according to Fortune. This equates to an increase of $191,780,822 per day or about $7,990,868 per hour."
• Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg & Sam Altman Among The Billionaires Investing In Anti-Aging Technology. Who Else Wants To Live Forever? - "Billionaires like to shape how people live, from the cars they drive to the phones they use. Many billionaires are also turning their attention to how long people live, by investing in a number of biotech startup companies and research groups."
• Jeff Bezos Nabs $68 Million Estate on Miami’s “Billionaire Bunker” Island - "The Amazon founder has greatly expanded his real estate portfolio in recent years."
• Jeff Bezos owns a $10 million Swiss private jet. See inside the Pilatus PC-24 with its unusual toilet in the galley - "Jeff Bezos owns a $10 million Swiss private jet. See inside the Pilatus PC-24 with its unusual toilet in the galley. Jeff Bezos owns three private jets worth $140 million in total, per JetSpy data. That includes a Pilatus PC-24, which the Swiss company calls 'the world's only super versatile jet.'"
• Jeff Bezos says he will give most of his money to charity - "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to give away the majority of his $124 billion net worth during his lifetime, telling CNN in an exclusive interview he will devote the bulk of his wealth to fighting climate change and supporting people who can unify humanity in the face of deep social and political divisions."
• Jeff Bezos Says You Can Never Be Proud Of Being Handsome, Beautiful, Smart Or Tall Because Those Are 'Gifts' - "You Didn't Do Anything: 'You Can Only Be Proud Of Your Choices Because Those Are The Things That You Are Acting On'."
• Jeff Bezos still uses a homemade scrappy door desk from the early days of launching Amazon - "Jeff Bezos might be a billionaire, but to this day, he still uses a homemade scrappy door desk from Amazon's early days in the 1990s. The Amazon founder's fiancée Lauren Sanchez posted a photo on Instagram over the weekend, which shows Bezos working from a laptop on the door desk. The desk have since become a symbol of Amazon's culture and are now used across its offices."
• Jeff Bezos swung by space and has some thoughts - "Breaking news: A billionaire says the planet is beautiful."
• Jeff Bezos: These ‘unusual’ 4 traits helped Jeff Bezos grow Amazon into a $1 trillion company, says current CEO - "Jeff Bezos built Amazon into a tech behemoth and 'everything store' that's now worth $1.6 trillion. He did it by being 'arguably the most unusual business leader of our era,' current Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told Fortune in a recent interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland."
• Jeff Bezos Will Soon Bring Us a 10,000 Year Clock Inside a Mountain - "Back in 2018, we brought you the news that Amazon's Jeff Bezos was building a giant 10,000-year clock inside a mountain in West Texas. Once completed, the clock will stand 500 feet (152 meters) tall and will be powered by the Earth's thermal cycles."
• Jeff Bezos wore a cowboy hat again. Real cowboys are rolling their eyes - "Did Jeff Bezos just ruin cowboy hats for everyone? Billionaire’s look compared to ‘a sprinkler head’ after he wears getup in a Vogue feature with his fiancee."
• Jeff Bezos' $80m Gulfstream G700 is an ultra-fast machine - "Jeff Bezos recently bought a Gulfstream G700 - It's extremely fast and can almost reach the speed of sound - The aircraft broke two transatlantic speed records."
• Jeff Bezos’ $500 million Koru superyacht emits an astounding 1,500 times more greenhouse gases than an average person - "Inspite of being the largest sailing yacht in the world the 417-feet long vessel will be responsible for more than 7,150 tonnes of CO2 every year."
• Jeff Bezos' $500-Million Yacht Hits the Open Ocean for the First Time - "Jeff Bezos’ giant 417-foot long sailing yacht stretched its legs on the open ocean this week, still completely free of a coating of eggs Rotterdam residents once promised the world’s largest sailing vessel. Yacht builders Oceanco referred to the $500-million sailing yacht by its internal serial name - Y721 - during its yearslong development and manufacturing process. The vessel can now be called by the name granted to it by its mega-rich owner: the Koru. A Koru is a Māori symbol representing the spiral of an unfurling fern frond."
• Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin wants to build a tourism space station nearly as big as the ISS - "Blue Origin, the rocket and space tourism company founded by Jeff Bezos, is proposing a massive new commercial space station called 'Orbital Reef' that could be used to host science experiments, vacation getaways, and potentially even in-space manufacturing."
• Jeff Bezos' business legacy is stunning. But at what cost? - "Bezos leaves behind a company that's created value but has also triggered a national reckoning."
• Jeff Bezos’ New $500 Million Megayacht Didn’t Have a Helipad So He Bought a Support Yacht - "The rich do wild things with their money because, you know, why not? Jeff Bezos, for example, is worth about $127 billion, according to Forbes, or more than enough to drop $75 million on a support yacht with a helipad for his girlfriend, because his $500 million superyacht doesn’t have one."
• Jeff Bezos’s Homes: Inside His More Than $500 Million Property Portfolio - "The Amazon founder’s most recent purchase brings his holdings on Miami’s Indian Creek Island to roughly $177 million."
• Jeffrey Epstein 'threatened to expose Bill Gates' 2010 affair with a Russian bridge player - after he refused to participate in a multibillion-dollar charitable fund with JPMorgan.
• Jerry Seinfeld Can No Longer Be About Nothing - "The comedian, long beloved for his apolitical riffs, has been wrestling with what it means to be Jewish amid the Israel-Hamas war. Not everyone is pleased."

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• Kanye West claims he lost $2bn in one day amid backlash to antisemitic comments - "Rapper known as Ye confirms the impact of Adidas and other companies cutting ties over his hateful remarks about Jewish people."
• Kanye West has a disturbing history of admiring Hitler - "Several people who were once close to the artist formerly known as Kanye West told CNN that he has long been fascinated by Adolf Hitler - and once wanted to name an album after the Nazi leader."
• Kanye West Is Not The Richest Black Person In America - Here’s Why - "Reports that the celebrity is worth nearly $7 billion are based on the magical thinking around sales that don’t yet exist. This is why he’s currently worth less than one third of that."
• Kanye West Is Now Officially A Billionaire - And He Really Wants The World To Know - "After months of requests, the hip-hop superstar shared financial records, revealing details about his wildly popular Yeezy sneaker empire - and his fixation on outside validation."
• Kanye West is reportedly worth $6.6 billion - "The 43-year-old rapper turned fashion and athletic shoe mogul is now worth $6.6 billion, according to Bloomberg."
• Kim Kardashian West Is Officially A Billionaire - "With KKW Beauty and popular shapewear firm Skims, Kardashian West’s net worth increases to $1 billion, earning her a spot on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List."
• Kim Kardashian West's KKW cosmetics line is worth $1 billion - "Coty is doubling down on the Kardashians. After buying Kylie Jenner's beauty business last January, Coty (COTY) announced on Monday that it would acquire a 20% stake in KKW, Kim Kardashian West's cosmetics line, for $200 million. The deal values KKW at $1 billion - slightly less than the $1.2 billion valuation of Jenner's company, Kylie Cosmetics."
• King Charles’s private fortune estimated at £1.8bn - "King’s fortune includes cars, jewellery, property, investments, horses, rare stamps, art and a hereditary estate."
• King Charles III’s $25 Billion Real Estate Empire - "The new British monarch lords over seven palaces, 10 castles, 12 homes, 56 cottages, and 14 ancient ruins where he can hang up his crown."
• Kremlin-connected children grew up in the very countries whose societies their parents claim to reject - "Theirs is a world of private jets, posh Parisian apartments, Austrian ski vacations and schooling at elite universities in London and New York. Their parents own prime real estate on the most exclusive avenues of Europe's capitals. Their social media profiles are filled with designer dresses and red-carpet events."
• Kylie Jenner in row with Forbes over billionaire status - "Kardashian family member reacts angrily to magazine’s claim she spun ‘a web of lies’."

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• Larry Ellison edges past Bill Gates as world’s fourth-richest person, Bloomberg says - "Ellison is now the world’s fourth-richest person, with a staggering $129.8 billion net worth, Bloomberg reported. He just squeaked past Gates, whose net worth - Bloomberg reported - is currently $129.1 billion. It’s the first time Ellison is richer than Gates and ranked above No. 5 on the list, the outlet reported."
• latest must-have among US billionaires? A plan to end the climate crisis - "The latest must-have for America’s ultra-rich isn’t another mega yacht or space program - it’s a plan to save the world from the climate crisis. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have an estimated wealth of $466bn - and are emblematic of a Davos-centric worldview that sees free markets and tech as the answer."
• ‘Lead by doing’: Bill Gates’ message to global leaders - "US President Joe Biden has had the top job for less than a week but billionaire Bill Gates has wasted no time in getting straight to business about raising the alarm on climate change."
• Leon Black is accused of raping teen in Jeffrey Epstein’s NY townhouse - "A woman is suing the billionaire investor Leon Black, accusing him of raping her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse when she was 16 years old."
• Leonard Blavatnik named UK's richest person with £23bn fortune - "Sir Leonard Blavatnik has topped the latest Sunday Times Rich List, having seen his fortune swell to £23bn."
• Leonardo DiCaprio & Jeff Bezos have backed this lab-grown sushi startup - "How lab-grown sushi could help tackle overfishing."
• Leonid Radvinsky, the elusive owner of a porn empire - "OnlyFans' profits have skyrocketed in the past year and news that its owner earned more than $300m in dividends has ignited fresh questions about the pornography mogul. Leonid Radvinsky is a 41-year-old Ukrainian-American entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $2.1bn."
• Let's stop pretending billionaires are in the same boat as us during this pandemic - "While millions of Americans were being thrown out of work by the coronavirus, the super rich saw their wealth increase 10%."
• List of centibillionaires - "A centibillionaire is someone with a net worth of 100 billion United States dollars ($100,000,000,000) or more. The following is a list of everyone who has ever been a centibillionaire."
• London has more dollar millionaires than New York - "One in 10 Londoners hold assets worth more than £720,000 as Covid crisis makes the rich richer."
• LVMH hits 400 billion euro in market value - "LVMH (LVMH.PA) shares rose to a fresh record high on Tuesday, giving the luxury goods group a market capitalisation of 400 billion euros ($434 billion) for the first time and cementing its lead as Europe's most valuable company. Like other luxury companies which are heavily exposed to China, LVMH has benefited this year from the fast reopening of the world's second biggest economy. However, some analysts said further gains in the share price could become harder to achieve."

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• MacKenzie Bezos Announces Nearly $1.7 Billion In Charitable Gifts - And Changed Her Last Name To Scott - "MacKenzie Bezos, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced on Tuesday on Twitter and through a Medium blogpost that she has given $1.67 billion to charities to date. She also announced that she has formally changed her name to MacKenzie Scott."
• MacKenzie Scott donates $4.2 billion to 384 organizations - "The announcement comes just four months after Scott donated $1.7 billion to 116 organizations, including four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), in July. The latest round of philanthropic gifts total more than $4.16 billion donated by Scott to organizations nationwide in the past four months."
• MacKenzie Scott Gave Away $6 Billion Last Year. It's Not As Easy As It Sounds - TIME Magazine.
• Mad diets of tech billionaires - Zuckerberg's cold goat meat & Bezos' roast iguana - "You are what you eat - so how did someone who used to eat entire packs of biscuits and octopuses for breakfast become the world's richest man?"
• Maldives shelters sanctioned Russian billionaires’ yachts - "The cautious approach by authorities in Maldives to enforcing the sanctions imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means that the Indian Ocean island nation has emerged as an attractive destination for yacht-owning Russian oligarchs."
• Many of the world’s billionaires share a zodiac sign, study finds - "According to the research, Libra - the star sign given to those born between late September and late October - appeared more frequently on the rich list than any other zodiac sign, with 32 of the world's wealthiest people sharing the sign."
• Mapping the Migration of the World's Millionaires - "This graphic maps out the migration of millionaires across the globe, showing the top 10 countries the ultra-rich are moving to and from."
• Mark Zuckerberg & Elon Musk say they’re up for a cage match. Who would win? - "Zuckerberg has been competing in Brazilian jiu-jitsu; Musk has size on his side - and a move called ‘the Walrus’."
• Mark Zuckerberg & the tech tycoons carving up Lake Tahoe - "Silicon Valley billionaires are driving a property boom on the California-Nevada border. But vast mansions and crystal clear waters aren’t the only draw."
• Mark Zuckerberg adds 110 acres to controversial 1,500-acre Hawaii estate - "The $17m purchase for the Facebook founder includes the Ka Loko reservoir, considered high-risk and in need of repairs."
• Mark Zuckerberg Augustus: Meta’s emperor rebrands in new clothes - "Mark Zuckerberg’s new revamp is a far cry from the zip-up hoodies and suits emblematic of earlier eras of Facebook."
• Mark Zuckerberg concealed his kids’ faces on Instagram. Should you? - "When Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo on Instagram of his family on July 4, two things stuck out: the billionaire CEO wore a striped souvenir cowboy hat, and the faces of his children were replaced with happy face emojis. Zuckerberg’s post was promptly criticized by some who saw the decision to obscure the faces as a reflection of his privacy concerns for sharing pictures of his children online, despite his creating massive platforms that allow millions of other parents to do just that."
• Mark Zuckerberg is building one of the biggest homes in US history - "$270M Hawaiian compound will include its own village and huge underground bunker."
• Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match - "A tech billionaire brawl for the ages that needs to happen."
• Mark Zuckerberg joins exclusive $200 billion club, closes in on third-richest person in world - "Watch your backs, Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault. Mark Zuckerberg is gaining on you. Recent figures from Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index show Zuckerberg has grown his personal fortune by a whopping $73.4 billion in 2024 to $201 billion."
• Mark Zuckerberg joins exclusive $200 billion club, is second-richest person in world - "The Meta CEO is now the second-richest person in the world, overtaking Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault. With a personal fortune of $206 billion, according to recent figures from Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, he now only trails Elon Musk."
• Mark Zuckerberg not ‘holding breath’ for cage fight with Elon Musk - "In social media quibble, Musk causes confusion by saying he will livestream fight - and one day later saying he has back problems."
• Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money' - "Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth richest person in the world with many billions of dollars to his name, said he 'understands' where Bernie Sanders is coming from when the Democratic presidential candidate says billionaires shouldn't exist."
• Mark Zuckerberg says he’s ‘out of town’ as Elon Musk drives to his house to fight - "Facebook founder called off the planed bout saying Tesla CEO ‘isn’t serious’ about fighting."
• Mark Zuckerberg's $195 Million "Ulysses" Yacht - "Ever wondered how the founder of Facebook spent his money? Here's part of the answer in this video. Although the price of the Ulysses yacht represents only a small percentage of Mark Zuckerberg's massive fortune, the yacht still costs $195 Million. So, when you buy something at that price, you can expect to get the best quality services and amenities, well that's all this super yacht offers." YouTube 7:42.
• Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision is over. Can Apple save it? - "The CEO of the social media giant has spent billions on his virtual reality dream - and still no one understands the idea. Now the world’s richest firm could change the game."
• Mark Zuckerberg's new worth surges by billions in a single day. Here's why - "Mark Zuckerberg's net worth increased by more than $28 billion between your morning coffee and your lunch break."
• MBS | Mohammed bin Salman: Power, oil & a $450m painting - insiders on the rise of Saudi's Crown Prince - "In January 2015, Abdullah, the 90-year-old king of Saudi Arabia, was dying in hospital. His half-brother, Salman, was about to become king - and Salman’s favourite son, Mohammed bin Salman, was preparing for power."
• McDonald's french fries, carrots, onions: all of the foods that come from Bill Gates farmland - "Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the nation’s largest farmland owner as part of his broader strategy to save the climate."
• Meet The Secretive Billionaire Who Makes McDonald’s McNuggets, Burger King’s Impossible Whoppers And More - "New Forbes 400 member Sheldon Lavin owns OSI Group, the behind-the-scenes food supplier that makes McDonald’s hamburgers, Chipotle’s carnitas, Oscar Meyer’s hot dogs and even Burger King’s Impossible Whoppers."
• Meet The World's Richest Self-Made Woman - "Rafaela Aponte, the 78-year-old shipping mogul, and her husband Gianluigi saw their fortunes jump a combined $46 billion this past year, enough to make her the highest-ranking female founder ever."
• Mega rich buy $11M homes on world's biggest superyacht - "World's first 'yacht liner' unveiled."
• Melinda French Gates details 'painful' divorce with Bill Gates, his Jeffrey Epstein ties - "In an interview with 'CBS Mornings' anchor Gayle King that aired Thursday, Gates opened up about splitting from the Microsoft co-founder after 27 years of marriage in the highly-publicized divorce finalized in August 2021."
• Melinda French Gates reportedly won't give bulk of her wealth to Gates Foundation - "French Gates is said to have decided not to give the bulk of her estimated $11.4 billion fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Instead, French Gates is expected to donate to other charitable endeavors, according to the report, though she may also continue to give money to the Gates Foundation."
• Melinda Gates could be angling to change kids’ $10M inheritance in split - "Bill Gates has said his kids will get a 'minuscule' portion of his vast wealth."
• Melinda Gates could become world’s second-richest woman - "Lack of prenuptial agreement with Bill Gates could herald $73bn divorce settlement as fears focus on future of couple’s charity."
• Melinda Gates has been consulting divorce lawyers since October 2019 - "Melinda Gates began consulting divorce lawyers in October 2019, according to a report - around the same time as her husband's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein was being called into question."
• Melinda Gates' lawyer reveals what he advises billionaires & celebrities not to do when settling a divorce - "Melinda Gates' divorce lawyer told Insider the spouses of very wealthy people sometimes settle for much less than they deserve."
• Michael Burry, of ‘Big Short’ fame, just bet $1.6 billion on a stock market crash - "Burry is making his bearish bets against the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, according to Security Exchange Commission filings released Monday. Burry’s fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $866 million in put options (that’s the right to sell an asset at a particular price) against a fund that tracks the S&P 500 and $739 million in put options against a fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100. Burry is using more than 90% of his portfolio to bet on a market downturn, according to the filings."
• Michael Jordan Is Now Worth $3 Billion & Joins The Forbes 400 - "Thanks to his sale of the Charlotte Hornets, the NBA legend is in rare air—becoming the first professional athlete to rank among America’s 400 wealthiest people."
• Michael Jordan was offered $100 million to appear at an event for two hours. He said no, his agent says - "NBA superstar Michael Jordan may have retired years ago, but his off-court appeal remains as strong as ever."
• Mikhail Khodorkovsky makes prediction about Putin - "Exiled Russian oligarch says Putin's bankers need to be blocked. Exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who led Russia's largest private oil company, speaks with CNN's Alex Marquardt about the Russia and Ukraine conflict and how the West can aid in ending the war."
• Mikhail Khodorkovsky: What comes after Vladimir Putin is one of my biggest concerns - "Once Russia’s richest man, the oligarch-turned-dissident talks to Samuel Lovett about the current state of war in Ukraine, stopping Vladimir Putin’s war machine, and succession in the Kremlin."
• Millionaires call on governments worldwide to ‘tax us now’ - "Group of 102 wealthy people say tax would help tackle gulf between rich and poor."
• Millionaires who support taxing the rich protest in front of Jeff Bezos’s homes - "Demonstrations organized by Patriotic Millionaires, whose members earn incomes of over $1m or have assets worth over $5m."
• More billionaires than ever in Palm Beach - "A record 48 billionaires have been identified as having strong residential ties to Palm Beach, according to a Palm Beach Daily News analysis of the list of the world’s richest people released Tuesday by Forbes.com. Last year there were 43 Palm Beach-linked names on the list."
• Moscow-on-Thames: Soviet-born billionaires & their ties to UK's political elite - "How party donations, sports teams and lavish London residences have granted access to highest echelons of public life."
• multi-million-pound UK homes of sanctioned oligarchs - "A dozen sanctioned Russians are linked to an estimated £800m worth of property in the UK, analysis by the BBC reveals."
• Murder In The House Of Gucci - "The call that would change everything came late in the evening of January 8, 1997. The anonymous caller asked to speak to Filippo Ninni, the head of police for the Italian region of Lombardia, and demanded a meeting. The caller did not want to say too much over the phone: 'I’m going to say just one name: Gucci.'"
• My grandfather founded a famous chocolate brand - I’m one of the richest in the world and worth $45billion - "Giovanni Ferrero's grandfather and father created and grew a chocolate empire that's worth billions with their products available in more than 170 countries."

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• Naming Elon Musk person of the year is Time’s ‘worst choice ever’, say critics - "Publication cites Tesla boss’s influence ‘for good or ill’, but accolade is criticised over billionaire’s attitude to tax, unions and Covid."
• Nearly 100 new people achieved billionaire status in the US during the pandemic - "Of the almost 500 new billionaires globally, nearly 100 of them are in the US. There are 724 US billionaires total (out of 2,755 billionaires globally), and their wealth amounts to $4.4 trillion - $2 trillion more than last year, according to Forbes."
• Non-doms: 12% of residents in London’s richest parts claimed status in 2018 - "More than one in 10 paid no tax on offshore income in Kensington and the Cities of London and Westminster."

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• Oleg Tinkov: Russian billionaire denounces Russian citizenship - "Oleg Tinkov is the latest Russian billionaire to show his opposition to Russian president Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine."
• Oligarch loses superyacht as US plans public auction - "The US authorities seized the yacht in Fiji and the Larsson-built superyacht Amadea has now arrived in San Diego having crossed the Pacific with an American crew, as reported by Superyacht Times."
• Oligarch’s yacht seized in Port Hercule, Monaco - "The 104-metre Quantum Blue belonging to Sergei Galitsky had been moored in Port Hercule for two years and had been preparing to leave on Wednesday. However, technical problems reportedly delayed its departure by one day and the Monaco authorities and French customs officers boarded the boat on Thursday morning to prevent it leaving."
• On Warren Buffett’s 90th Birthday, Private Wisdom From The Oracle - Delivered In 90 Seconds Flat - Forbes.
• ‘One billionaire at a time’: inside the Swiss clinics where the super-rich go for rehab - "For the ultra-wealthy and the super-famous, regular therapy won’t do."
• One-percenters take to the air - "Flying accounts for about two percent of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions, but some passengers’ impact is far greater than others. In a week when the great and good are flying into the World Economic Forum at Davos we have decided to take stock."
• Oppidum - since 2015. "ULTRA-LUXURY FORTIFIED UNDERGROUND RESIDENCES." We are an engineering, technology and development company specializing in ultra-luxury fortified underground residences. We create spaces that are totally secure and utterly discreet yet sumptuously appointed and entirely bespoke - all underground, within your own domain. You can be sure that you, your family and your most treasured possessions have a place of safety and comfort close at hand for as long as you need, whatever happens in the world outside.
• Oprah, Zuckerberg, Ellison: Billionaires Continue to Acquire Land in Hawaii - Here's The Extent of Their Holdings - "Hawaii, with its breathtaking landscapes and serene beauty, has always attracted those seeking a piece of paradise. For years, billionaires such as Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison have been making headlines for their significant land acquisitions across the islands. As the allure of Hawaii’s natural wonders remains strong, it’s worth taking a closer look at the extent of these billionaires’ holdings and what it means for the local communities."
• Oxfam points to 5 likely candidates to be the world's first trillionaire - "Here's where the fortunes of Musk, Arnault, Bezos, Ellison and Buffett stand today. The world might see its first trillionaire sooner than you think. And that puts a spotlight on today's richest 1%. In an annual assessment of global inequalities published earlier this week, Oxfam International said the first trillionaire could emerge within the next decade - as the anti-poverty organization pointed to the growing wealth gap that skyrocketed globally during the COVID-19 pandemic."

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• Pandemic spurred record numbers of ‘ultra wealthy’ in 2021 - "Rising global stock markets and increased property prices swelled ranks of ultra-high net worth individuals, according to new report."
• Pandora Papers - "The largest investigation in journalism history exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful. Read more." International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
• Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich & powerful - "Millions of documents reveal offshore deals and assets of more than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials."
• Patagonia founder's big donation potentially saves him over $1 billion in taxes - "Shows how the wealthy aren't subject to the same rules as the rest of us."
• Patagonia's billionaire founder gives company away to help fight climate crisis - "Patagonia’s founder is transferring ownership of the company after nearly 50 years into two entities that will help fight the climate crisis. Patagonia is a private company based in Ventura, California, that sells outdoor apparel and equipment. Yvon Chouinard founded the company in 1973."
• Peter Jackson tops Forbes highest paid entertainer list - "Get Back and Lord of the Rings director made an estimated $580m last year, topping annual list that also features Bruce Springsteen, Dwayne Johnson and Kanye West."
• Peter Thiel amasses $5bn tax-free nest egg in retirement account - "Billionaire Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, has used a retirement account designed to help ordinary Americans save for their golden years to amass a $5bn tax-free nest egg, according to records obtained by ProPublica."
• Peter Thiel, Major U.S. Political Donor, Is Said to Pursue Maltese Citizenship - "Obtaining citizenship in Malta would provide another passport for Mr. Thiel, who is one of the largest individual donors for the U.S. midterm elections."
• Putin: As Biden Mulls Sanctions, Three Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "According to Swedish economist Anders Aslund, the author of the 2019 book Russia’s Crony Capitalism, Putin has recruited family, childhood friends, bodyguards and others to hold his money. He estimates that each person has between $500 million and $2 billion and that his net worth is anywhere between $100 billion and $130 billion."
• Putin: Russian emails appear to show ‘network’ holding $4.5bn assets linked to Putin - "Questions over palaces, vineyards and yachts run by entities that appear to be part of a cooperative."
• Putin's daughters targeted by US sanctions - "The US has imposed sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle, including his daughters."

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• Queen’s ‘seabed rights’ swell to value of £5bn after auction of plots - "British crown estate portfolio rises in value by 8.3% to £15.6bn."

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• Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: Tributes for India's 'stock market king' who died at 62 - "Often called India's Warren Buffett, Jhunjhunwala had an estimated net worth of around $5.8bn, according to Forbes magazine. He had the reputation of being a risk-taker in his investments, many of which paid off spectacularly."
• Ratan Tata dies aged 86 - "Tata was one of India's most internationally recognised business leaders. The Tata Group is one of India's largest companies, with annual revenues in excess of $100bn."
• Ray-Ban's billionaire owner Leonardo Del Vecchio dies - "Leonardo Del Vecchio, the chairman of spectacles maker EssilorLuxottica (ESLOF) and one of Italy's wealthiest business figures, has died aged 87, his company said on Monday."
• Red Bull heir, a crashed car & the scandal that angered Thailand - "Before dawn on September 3, 2012, a roaring black Ferrari struck a police motorcycle in downtown Bangkok, knocking the officer to the ground and dragging his body down the darkened street before speeding away."
• Revenge Of The Winklevii - "After losing an epic battle with Mark Zuckerberg over ownership of Facebook and being shunned in Silicon Valley, CAMERON and TYLER WINKLEVOSS are back - this time as budding Bitcoin billionaires at the center of the future of money, the creative economy and quite possibly a new operating model for Big Tech itself."
• Rich people who build ‘really fancy houses’ become ‘less happy’ - "Charlie Munger lived in the same home for 70 years."
• Richard Branson facing backlash over plea for UK bailout of Virgin - "Campaigners and politicians point to tycoon’s wealth, while aviation industry backs him."
• Richard Branson flies to edge of space in Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane - "Spaceplane went into sub-orbital flight days ahead of a rival launch by Jeff Bezos."
• Richard Branson is going to space. How risky is that? - "There's plenty that could go wrong. The rocket motor could fail to light up. The cabin could lose pressure and threaten the passengers' lives. And the intense physics involved when hurtling out of - and back into - the Earth's atmosphere could tear the vehicle apart."
• Richard Branson offers his island as collateral as Virgin Atlantic & Virgin Australia face collapse - "Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia will need government support if they're to survive the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic."
• Richard Branson tours bombed-out Ukrainian airport & views charred remains of world's biggest jet - "British billionaire Sir Richard Branson travelled to Ukraine yesterday, where he met president Volodymyr Zelensky and visited Hostomel airport - the scene of a bloody and destructive battle early in the war."
• Richard Branson’s 17-Year Journey Into Space - "How The Virgin Founder Became First Billionaire To Fly Own Rocket."
• Richard Branson's bailout plea proves there's no one more shameless - "Eyeing up the public purse from distant shores, 'Britain’s Best-Loved Businessman' is truly one of the global super-elite."
• Richard Branson's disappointing space jaunt - "The billionaire space race looks set to kick space tourism into gear in earnest in the near future. But the implications of these developments aren't quite as rosy as Branson's overly optimistic message implies - and dreaming big billionaire-style might come at a hefty toll for the rest of us. First, there's the environmental cost of space travel. Virgin Galactic claims that the carbon footprint for passengers of its suborbital space flight is comparable to that of a business class ticket on a transatlantic flight (which is about 0.2 kilograms per kilometer or 0.44 pounds per .62 miles - amounting to a massive 2,220 kilo output per passenger over a typical 11,100-kilometer flight or 2.45 tons over a 6,897-mile flight)."
• Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says - "‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality."
• Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years - "Billionaire fortunes are increasing by $2.7 billion a day even as at least 1.7 billion workers now live in countries where inflation is outpacing wages." OXFAM.
• Richest Woman In The World 2022 - "For the second year in a row on Forbes’ list of the World’s Billionaires, the planet’s richest woman is L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers of France. Worth an estimated $74.8 billion, Bettencourt Meyers is an estimated $1.2 billion richer than a year ago, making her the fourteenth richest person in the world."
• Rihanna is now officially a billionaire, according to Forbes - "The business magazine, which tracks and publishes data on the world's wealthiest individuals, on Wednesday reported the 33-year-old pop star's estimated net worth to be $1.7 billion, making her the wealthiest female musician and the second-richest woman in entertainment behind Oprah Winfrey."
• Rihanna is the first woman billionaire to play the Super Bowl halftime show - "Rihanna is about to perform at the Super Bowl LVII on Sunday (Feb. 12), marking the superstar’s first return to a musical stage in five years. The halftime show is a familiar setting for some of the music world’s richest stars, including the likes of Sean P. Diddy Combs and Paul McCartney, but Rihanna is in a tier of her own. Currently worth an estimated $1.4 billion, Rihanna stands as the wealthiest musician in the world, with Jay-Z close behind."
• Rihanna leapfrogs homegrown stars on UK music rich list - "Barbados-born singer near the top of the wealth charts after moving to London last year. Rihanna has staked a place near the top of the UK’s annual music rich list after moving to Britain last year, beating the likes of Mick Jagger, Elton John and Rod Stewart."
• Rihanna: There’s a reason why Rihanna’s a billionaire - "‘Servin’ face and jianbing’: Rihanna courts China’s lucrative beauty market with some clever culinary skills."
• Rihanna's journey to Forbes' billionaire list is about much more than music - "The singer turned entrepreneur, who ranks 1,729 (out of 2,668) with a net worth of $1.7 billion, first achieved billionaire status in August. She is the first billionaire of her home country, Barbados."
• Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, plans to sue Russia for huge losses - "Ukraine's richest man says he plans to sue Russia over what he said was $17 billon to $20 billion in losses caused by its bombardment of steel plants he owns in the devastated city of Mariupol."
• Rocket men: how billionaires are using celebrities as PR for their space projects - "Critics see the ‘awful business’ of private space tourism as having little technological or exploration value."
• Roman Abramovich & Ukrainian Peace Negotiators Suffer Suspected Poisoning - "Russian oligarch developed symptoms that people familiar with the matter blamed on hard-liners in Moscow who they say want to sabotage peace talks." The Wall Street Journal.
• Roman Abramovich Breaks Records Again, With a Second Outrageous Private Jet - "What could you possibly wish for Christmas when you already own a jaw-dropping collection of luxury cars, a $600 million superyacht, and a giant private jet? Apparently, a second private jet that blows all the others out of the water, as the most expensive one in the world. That, of course, if you’re Roman Abramovich."
• Roman Abramovich 'fails to pay £10,000 rent to Queen' for land his mansion is on - "Chelsea's billionaire owner Roman Abramovich is unable to pay the Queen the £10,000 rent required for land on which his stunning £107million Kensington mansion is built."
• Roman Abramovich: Federal judge authorizes US to seize two of Roman Abramovich’s private jets - "US justice department prosecutors say both jets flew to Russia in March, violating export restrictions."
• Roman Abramovich Has $7 Billion In Suspected Assets Frozen In Jersey - "The Channel Island of Jersey, located between England and France, froze more than $7 billion in assets Wednesday suspected to be connected to Roman Abramovich, according to the Jersey government, as Russian billionaires face sanctions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
• Roman Abramovich has 12 properties seized including £90m chateau & Caribbean estate - "Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by several governments since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine nearly two months ago. Roman Abramovich's luxury estate on the Caribbean island of St Barts and his £90m chateau are among the latest assets to be seized by the authorities. Most of Abramovich's properties were bought using specially created French companies. They include Chateau de la Croe - his villa in Cap d'Antibes, a resort town located near Cannes - which was once the Riviera holiday home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor."
• Roman Abramovich 'has been effectively BARRED from living in Britain' - as he is named as one of the 'key enablers' of Vladimir Putin's regime. Sources now reportedly say it is unlikely he will be allowed to live in Britain again.
• Roman Abramovich hastily selling UK properties, MP claims - "An MP has claimed that the Russian oligarch and Chelsea football club owner, Roman Abramovich, is hastily selling UK properties to avoid potential financial sanctions."
• Roman Abramovich hit by multibillion-pound crackdown on assets in Jersey & France - "More than £5.4bn of Chelsea FC owner’s assets frozen in Jersey and 12 luxury French properties seized."
• Roman Abramovich-linked yacht in Netherlands changed hands on day of Ukraine invasion - "The 50-metre Aquamarine, modest by oligarch standards, is covered in scaffolding and sitting under a hangar in dry dock, one of many such boats being refitted in the Dutch port of Vlissingen."
• Roman Abramovich: Rabbi investigated over Portuguese citizenship - "Mr Abramovich was granted Portuguese citizenship in April 2021 under a law that offered naturalisation to descendants of Sephardic Jews, who were expelled from the Iberian peninsula more than 400 years ago during the Inquisition."
• Roman Abramovich: ‘You could fill a museum with it’: the $963m Roman Abramovich art collection revealed - "Leak suggests the oil and gas tycoon and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova amassed one of the most significant collections of modern art in private hands."
• Roman Abramovich's £430m superyacht Solaris docks into 'safe haven' of Montenegro - Daily Mail.
• Roman Abramovich’s billion-dollar trusts transferred before Russia sanctions - "Files raise questions about whether oligarch’s children were made beneficiaries to protect fortune from possible asset freezes."
• Roman Abramovich's superyacht sails away as net closes - "Roman Abramovich’s £330 million superyacht has set sail from a Dutch island in the Caribbean towards international waters as world leaders move to seize the assets of oligarchs."
• Roman’s empire: how the seeds of Abramovich’s demise were there all along - "Almost 20 years after his high profile purchase, the oligarch is looking to sell Chelsea. Here’s the story of how it unravelled."
• Rothko & Warhol among ‘legendary’ art collection being sold in divorce - "Further 30 works from Macklowe collection to be auctioned in New York in May after billionaire couple’s split."
• Rules Of The Rich - 1. Pay yourself first. 2. Leverage other people's time and money. 3. Always have multiple streams of income. 4. Never rely solely on earned income. 5. Understand the power of compound returns. 6. Prioritize financial education. 7. Avoid lifestyle inflation. 8. Build and maintain a strong network. 9. Invest in assets, not liabilities. 10. Take calculated risks.
• Rupert Murdoch & Jerry Hall reportedly to divorce - "The divorce would be a fourth for Mr Murdoch, 91. Ms Hall, 65, was previously married to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger."
• Rupert Murdoch: Fox Chased Its Audience Down the Rabbit Hole - "Rupert Murdoch built an empire by giving viewers exactly what they wanted. But what they wanted - election lies and insurrection - put that empire (and the country) in peril."
• Rupert Murdoch has a thing for women aged 66. But what could be in it for them? - "The media mogul’s new girlfriend, just like recent exes, falls within his favourite demographic."
• Rupert Murdoch's media empire through the years - "Rupert Murdoch built one of the world's most influential media empires over a 70-year career, and is now stepping down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp. After his father died, he inherited a half-share of local newspapers in the Australian city of Adelaide in the 1950s, before going on to own some of the most influential newspapers and TV stations in the world. Here is archive footage of some of his biggest acquisitions."
• Russia’s richest man Andrey Melnichenko, cleverly saved his warship inspired $300 million superyacht from being seized by the Western authorities - "With its tracker turned off for a year and docked near Dubai, the 390-foot-long vessel may now be seized by Russian itself. Multi-billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, Russia’s richest man worth $24.4 billion per Forbes, is in trouble almost as big as his megayacht, 470 feet long Sailing Yacht A. He has become the target of a lawsuit from the Russian government concerning a deal to buy an energy company. What will entail now is the possible seizure of his company Sibeco, and his prized possessions. That also depends on whether the government can get its hands on them. Melnichenko is no ordinary billionaire but one of Russia’s leading businessmen, the founder of EuroChem, and Suek, worth $24.4 billion."
• Russia’s richest oligarchs lose $67B in year since Putin invaded Ukraine - "The 23 Russian oligarchs listed on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index have lost a combined $67 billion in wealth in the past year, the outlet reported Friday."
• Russian asset tracker - "Introducing a project to track down and catalogue the vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to Russian President Vladimir Putin." OCCRP.
• Russian billionaire daring to speak out about Putin - "Boris Mints is one of a few rich Russian businesspeople to speak out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin."
• Russian billionaire settles with ex-wife five years after £450m payout ruling - "Farkhad Akhmedov had contested 2017 decision but has now reached an agreement over divorce."
• Russian Billionaires Have Lost Nearly $90 Billion In Wealth Amid Ukraine Invasion - "As Russian troops invade Ukraine, tens of billions have been wiped from the fortunes of Russia’s billionaires."
• Russian-linked billionaires have given enormous sums of money to the West's leading educational & cultural institutions - "Their names are etched in stone alongside some of the most powerful people and companies in American history - the Rockefellers, the Walgreens, and the Coca-Cola company."
• Russian Billionaires’ Wealth Since 2022 - "The 22 wealthiest Russian billionaires in April 20, 2023 lost a collective $90.4 billion in net worth since January 5, 2022."
• Russian oil tycoon decorated by Putin dies after plunging from sixth-floor hospital window - "The latest official to die in a mysterious fall. Ravil Maganov, 67, chairman of Russian oil giant LUKOIL, died after falling froma window on the 6th floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow at 7.30am."
• Russian oligarch goes to court in bid to open MC bank account - "Boris Rotenberg, a close ally of Putin, is trying to use his status as a Monaco resident in order to oblige a bank to open an account in the Principality, various news sources reported on Wednesday, June 1."
• Russian oligarchs - "Business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatization that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The failing Soviet state left the ownership of state assets contested, which allowed for informal deals with former USSR officials (mostly in Russia and Ukraine) as a means to acquire state property." Wikipedia.
• Russian Oligarchs Are on the Run - "How the Twitterverse is taking Russian billionaires to task."
• Russian oligarchs: Where do they hide their 'dark money'? - "For decades, Russian oligarchs have moved billions of dollars of ill-gotten money abroad, putting it in shell companies to make it extremely hard to trace. Now, countries around the world are taking steps to track it down."
• Ryan Reynolds Sold His Company For $1.3 Billion; Now He's Investing In Something He Knows Nothing About - "T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile for $1.35 billion. The Yahoo Finance Live team discusses T-Mobile's plan to acquire Mint Mobile. Acclaimed Hollywood A-lister Ryan Reynolds has proven himself to be more than just an entertainer, delving into the world of investments with remarkable success."

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• 'Scandals & secrets': On board the world's most exclusive private residential ship - "It's a floating city exclusively home to the 1%, a playground for multimillionaires and billionaires that circumnavigates the world's oceans."
• See Sam Altman's Ultra-Rare, Half-Million Dollar Watch - "Sam Altman's $480,000 watch, the Greubel Forsey Invention Piece 1, is so rare only 33 were ever made."
• Samsung names billionaire scion Jay Y. Lee as chairman - "Samsung has appointed Jay Y. Lee, its longtime de facto leader, as executive chairman. Samsung’s board, which approved the change, 'cited the current uncertain global business environment and the pressing need for stronger accountability and business stability,' the tech giant said in a statement."
• Secrecy, sex & sun: captain reveals life aboard superyachts - "Billionaires’ excesses are under scrutiny like never before after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The secretive world of superyachts is the ultimate in billionaire excess, where tycoons cavort with celebrities, politicians and sex workers, and where privacy is protected by non-disclosure agreements ensuring absolute discretion from well-paid staff."
• Secret billionaires: five people you didn't know were super rich - "Forbes and Bloomberg track the net worth of the wealthiest people. But what if we said there were secret billionaires too?"
• Selena Gomez joins billionaire celebrity rich list - "The celebrity joins the billionaire ranks thanks to her Rare Beauty make-up business. The brand's success has made her one of the 'youngest female self-made' wealthy on the list, alongside the likes of Taylor Swift and Rihanna. Selena Gomez rose to fame as a child star on Barney and the Disney Channel. Her latest role? Billionaire."
• Sir James Dyson named UK's richest person for first time - "The entrepreneur’s rise comes as Britain’s super-rich lose more than £54bn in two months due to Covid-19."
• ‘So self-important’: Hamptons airport vote pits wealthy against super-rich - "Town board expected to pass plan that would allow it to limit traffic and noise of airport used by ‘the 1%’."
• SpaceX could make Elon Musk world’s first trillionaire, says Morgan Stanley - "Most of world’s richest person’s fortune so far has come from electric car company Tesla."
• Stealth Wealth: The Art Of Silent Financial Success - "The practice of stealth wealth offers numerous benefits, from greater financial freedom and flexibility to reduced stress and a more ordinary lifestyle."
• Steve Ballmer Becomes Ninth Member of the $100 Billion Club - "Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., has a net worth of more than $100 billion, making him the ninth person in the world to reach that lofty plateau. Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison fell just short of making it an even 10, ending Wednesday with a fortune of $98.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."
• Steve Ballmer: Bill Gates' former assistant is the world's 5th-richest person - "He's close to overtaking the Microsoft cofounder. Steve Ballmer's fortune has grown by an estimated $29 billion this year to about $115 billion, ranking him fifth on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Ballmer owes his vast wealth to the contract he negotiated when he first joined Microsoft in 1980."
• Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing - "For most people, passive income is a bit of extra pocket change that requires minimal effort to earn to supplement a main source of income. For Steve Ballmer, it’s $1 billion. Ballmer, the sixth richest person in the world, is due to collect that much in dividends from Microsoft in 2024. This comes after the tech giant boosted its quarterly dividend payout to 75 cents a share, or $3 a share annually."
• Steve Ballmer, who was once Bill Gates’ assistant, is now richer than his onetime mentor - "But now, his skyrocketing Microsoft holdings have made him richer than the company's founder. The 68-year-old former Microsoft CEO squeaked by his onetime boss Bill Gates to become the sixth richest person in the world on Monday with a net worth of $157 billion."
• Steve Jobs Said Your Overall Happiness in Life Really Comes Down to Asking 4 Simple Questions - "Before his untimely death, Steve Jobs gave us a powerful lesson on living the best possible life."
• Steve Jobs' widow's $140M megayacht SMASHES into another monster vessel owned by telecoms billionaire - "The high-value crash involved the 78-meter Venus, commissioned by the late Apple founder and now owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, and the 105-meter Lady Moura, owned by Mexican billionaire business titan Ricardo Salinas. The two liners, that cost a combined $265 million, slammed into each other after a vicious gust of wind off the Italian coast of Naples put them on a collision course."
• Sunday Times Giving List 2022 - "Find out who made the 2022 Sunday Times Giving List. Download the full list of the top 100 philanthropists in the UK."
• Sunday Times Rich List 2023 - "With the first fall in billionaires since the financial crash, is the party finally over?"
• Super-rich abandoning Norway at record rate as wealth tax rises slightly - "Flood moving abroad has come as a shock and is costing tens of millions in lost tax receipts."
• super rich are building super luxury bunkers - "Operating theaters, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses."
• Super-rich call for higher taxes on wealthy to pay for Covid-19 recovery - "A group of 84 of the world’s richest people have called on governments to permanently increase taxes on them and other members of the wealthy elite to help pay for the economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis."
• Super Rich Choose Singapore as Their Safe Haven - "Asia’s super rich are choosing Singapore as their haven with the number of single family offices in the city-state doubling since the end of 2019."
• Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak - "‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hideouts."
• super-rich's sensational planes, trains, automobiles & yachts - "Billionaires like to go from A to B in supreme comfort and style, and think nothing of splurging on the finest and most exclusive modes of transport imaginable. Click or scroll through to reveal the private jets, opulent trains, prestige cars and magnificent megayachts of the planet's richest people."
• Superyacht Owners Escape For Open Waters With Hospital Rooms & Private Nurses - "Most yachts over 300 feet contain mini-hospitals, or secure medical rooms, and yacht nurse staffing agencies can barely keep up with the increase in demand following the coronavirus outbreak. As yacht owners find themselves virtually isolated in their foreign locations, the need for onboard medical protection is an urgent necessity."
• Superyacht reportedly belonging to Bezos requires Dutch bridge to be dismantled - "The 'De Hef' bridge in the Dutch city of Rotterdam has stood since the 19th century, but now it's making way for one of the world's richest men. The historic steel bridge will be partially dismantled to allow the passage of a superyacht reportedly belonging to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The city's mayor promises the bridge will be rebuilt to its current form."
• Superyacht Sales Are Soaring Thanks to a Wave of Newly Minted Billionaires - "Over 200 new superyachts were launched this year up to September, up from 165 in the same period of 2019."
• Superyacht Summer: From St. Tropez To Capri, The Hottest Billionaire Escapes - "The legendary superyacht showdown started early this Summer with several high-profile billionaires (Jeff Bezos, David Geffen) starting in Ibiza and heading to Capri, Sardinia and St. Tropez. Yachts will anchor off the coast and send their high-profile guests via tender to popular seaside restaurants like Lo Scoglio in Sorrento and Casa Jondal in Ibiza. Many will stay throughout the Summer visiting neighboring islands while shuttling back to the mainland to pick up their owners and guests." Forbes.
• Suspected FabergÉ egg found on Russian oligarch’s superyacht, US investigators say - "What could be a priceless Fabergé egg has been found on board a Russian oligarch’s superyacht seized by US authorities, one of the more curious items unearthed in sanctions-led investigations so far."

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• Taylor Swift joins world's richest on billionaire list - "Taylor Swift has joined Elon Musk as ranking among the world's 2,781 wealthiest people with a collective wealth of $14.2 trillion, according to a new rich list."
• Tax the rich: these one percenters want people like them to pay higher taxes - "Members of the Patriotic Millionaires say the income gap in the US has become a disaster – and it’s time to ‘take that money back’."
• Tesla Cybertruck: That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All of Elon Musk’s Flaws - "His ethos and approach to running Tesla are embodied by his pet project, the Cybertruck. Though it fits the technical definition of a truck (it has a bed), the vehicle looks more like an origami version of an El Camino. Mr. Musk suggested its stainless steel exterior might be bulletproof; some owners say it rusts."
• Tesla is now worth more than $1 trillion - "Shares popped more than 12% Monday to close at about $1,025, boosted by two spots of good news: Hertz announced a record order of 100,000 Teslas for its fleet, and influential Morgan Stanley auto analyst Adam Jonas recently raised his price target on Tesla to $1,200 a share."
• The big winner in Elon Musk's Twitter deal - "Even the world's richest person needs financial advice. That's great news for Morgan Stanley, the investment bank of choice for Elon Musk."
• The billion-dollar move that Michael Jordan almost missed - "As old sayings go, not many have stood the test of time better than 'mother knows best.' But when faced with two of the most consequential decisions of his life, Michael Jordan listened to his mother only once. Heeding her advice would end up making the basketball icon rich beyond his wildest dreams; spurning it potentially damaged his legacy."
• The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke ... Is Now Officially Broke - "It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now - and he couldn’t be happier."
• The dark world of my billionaire lifestyle - "Life with a Russian billionaire: money and death threats. They would stay in his chateau in the south of France and had homes across the world. It was an idyllic life, beyond anyone's imagination."
• The Great Wealth Transfer Is Encouraging Older Collectors to Sell Off Their Art Collections - "Over the next quarter century, some $73 trillion dollars will be passed from America’s Boomer generation to its Gen X and Millennial children in what has been dubbed 'The Great Wealth Transfer.' About half of that figure will go to just the top 1.5 percent of households, aka America’s collecting class."
• The Immortals: meet the billionaires forking out for eternal life - "A fascinating and often terrifying new podcast delves into the lengths ‘longevity superstars’ will go to make 90 the new 50, from swapping blood with the young to designing the first ‘post-humans’."
• The Maldives is auctioning off 16 private islands to the super rich - "At 10am local time on June 24, the Maldives government is auctioning off 16 of its 1,190 islands, to tempt foreign investors into helping to boost a tourist economy that has been hit hard by the pandemic. There are no reserve prices for the islands, each of which comes with a 50-year lease."
• The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a decade to do so - "Nine months. That's how long it took the world's top 1,000 billionaires to recoup their fortunes after the coronavirus pandemic hit."
• The mystery of billionaires’ long marriages - "It is remarkable how many of the super-successful have stuck by their first spouse."
• The Official Bitcoin Billionaire's Handbook - "How to speak, act, and shop like a cryptocrat - even if you have no idea what a blockchain is."
• The only man Elon trusts to look after his $240 billions - "Secretive friend who runs Musk's family office controls his wealth - but also helped him investigate 'pedo guy' and was fired by Merrill Lynch. Jared Birchall, aged 47 or 48, is head of Elon Musk's 'family office' - the asset management firm to handle his finances."
• The pandemic is helping the rich get even richer. It's time to tax their obscene wealth - "Bernie Sanders: Inequality is becoming worse as tens of millions of Americans face unemployment, loss of healthcare, evictions and hunger."
• The rich are getting richer & they’re fueling a private jet boom - "Business jet take-offs and landings in the U.S. are up 40% year-on-year. Data from Jefferies Equity Research shows that as IPO activity climbed, the volume of business jet deliveries rose in correlation with it in 2021. Inventory of used jets is at record lows, around or below 3% for most major jet manufacturers."
• The Rise Of The Six-Figure Vacation - "The ultra-rich are spending extravagantly on travel - and high-end tour operators are seeing an unprecedented rise in trips with price tags of $100,000 or more." Forbes.
• The Robber Barons Had Nothing on Elon Musk - "Elon Musk is now the proud owner of Twitter. The danger here is not that we have a rogue billionaire in our midst - that has happened before, and it will happen again - but that this one will be in control of what he has rightly referred to as our 'digital town square.'"
• The sanctioned oligarch’s son & a £160m London property empire - "Said Gutseriev says he has no financial or commercial links to his father, who was sanctioned last year for ‘supporting’ dictator of Belarus."
• The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World & The Billionaire Escape Plans - "Our lives are in a constant state of flux, the political situation aside, our earth is rapidly changing. Between the increase of bizarre weather patterns hitting the earth, and recent major volcanic activity, now more than ever our focus is on our planets future."
• ‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk - "He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch, the maverick boss of Tesla and SpaceX who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love?"
• The Sunday Times Rich List 2021 - "How the Covid pandemic spawned more billionaires than ever." Billionaires are at a record number but how fragile is their wealth? Rich List compiler Robert Watts reports on those who cashed in during the lockdown digital-shopping bonanza and asks when the bubble might burst.
• The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse - "Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers and hiring military security to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences."
• The Telegram Billionaire & His Dark Empire - "Telegram is one of the world's most popular chat apps - and possibly the most dangerous. There is little regulation of the platform, which is popular with criminals and terrorists. Who is the mastermind behind it?"
• The tight web of lawyers & PR firms who oil the wheels for billionaires - "Many of Russia’s super rich have made London the centre of their business dealings, enabled by a willing services sector."
• The Wealthy Are Leaving Cities For Good - "Nearly half of wealthy individuals may move out of cities permanently, according to a new study on lasting life changes after coronavirus."
• The western elite is preventing us from going after the assets of Russia’s hyper-rich - "Why has no progress been made on an international financial registry? One simple reason: wealthy westerners don’t want one." Thomas Piketty | The Guardian.
• The Wives & Partners Of The 11 Richest Men In The World - "While it's likely you're familiar with famous billionaires such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft creator Bill Gates, you may not know about their wives and partners! In some cases, the women in these men's lives have become financially successful themselves.Elon Musk dated singer Grimes but the two never married, and spouses like Zuckerberg's wife Priscilla Chan and Melinda Gates have gone on to make a name for themselves. Click through our gallery to find out more about their current (and in some cases, past) wives and partners!"
• The World Now Has Three People Worth More Than $100 Billion Each - "Bernard Arnault joins Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in $100 billion club."
• THE WORLD'S BILLIONAIRES - Wikipedia.
• THE WORLD'S REAL-TIME BILLIONAIRES - "Today’s Winners and Losers." Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people. The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. The value of individuals’ public holdings are updated every 5 minutes when respective stock markets are open (there will be a 15-minute delay for stock prices). Individuals whose fortunes are significantly tied to private companies will have their net worths updated once a day. In cases where an individual owns a stake in a private company that accounts for 20% or more of his or her net worth, the value of the company will be adjusted according to an industry- or region-specific market index provided by our partners at FactSet Research Systems when available. A rotating cast of the five biggest winners and losers throughout the day is featured at the top of the page, followed by the complete list of billionaires ranked in order of net worth.
• These Billionaires Applaud Biden's Plan To Curb Carbon Emissions - "When President Biden revealed ambitious goals to fight climate change on Thursday, including cutting down greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by at least 50% by 2030, one of his former political challengers, Tom Steyer, thought 'Today is a great day.' Steyer is one of a handful of billionaires - including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg - who publicly expressed support for Biden’s plan."
• These Countries Have Gained The Most Billionaires In The Past Decade - "Between 2010 and 2020, the number of billionaires on Forbes’ annual list nearly tripled. Here are the 10 countries that gained the most."
• These tech moguls lost a combined $433 billion this year - "It’s been a dreary year for tech billionaires’ net worths, but they still have more money than many small countries."
• These U.S. Billionaires Kept Funding Legislators Who Refused To Certify The Election After Jan. 6 - "More than 50 billionaires donated in the second half of 2021 to legislators who voted against certifying the presidential election, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records." Forbes.
• They Are the Heirs of Nazi Fortunes & They Aren’t Apologizing - "The backbone of Germany’s economy today is the car industry. It’s not just that it accounts for about 10 percent of G.D.P.; brands like Porsche, Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen are recognized around the world as symbols of German industrial ingenuity and excellence. These companies spend millions on branding and advertising to ensure they are thought of this way. They spend less money and energy on discussing their roots. These corporations can trace their success directly back to Nazis: Ferdinand Porsche persuaded Hitler to put Volkswagen into production. His son, Ferry Porsche, who built up the company, was a voluntary SS officer. Herbert Quandt, who built BMW into what it is today, committed war crimes. So did Friedrich Flick, who came to control Daimler-Benz. Unlike Mr. Quandt, Mr. Flick was convicted at Nuremberg."
• They Inherited Billions Upon Billions: Meet America’s Richest Heirs - "One of them, Rob Walton, just led a family group to bid $4.65 billion for the Denver Broncos NFL team. Here are the other heirs that rank the highest on Forbes’ list."
• This Is Where The Super Rich Will Travel After Lockdown Lifts - "For the ultra rich the world really is limitless when it comes to the most luxurious and exclusive experiences. Take the second iteration of VistaJet’s World collection, Safe Havens for example."
• Tiger Woods Officially A Billionaire, No Thanks To The Saudis - "He reportedly turned down a 'high nine digits' deal to play on the new Saudi-backed golf tour, but no matter. Thanks to endorsements and real estate, he is a billionaire anyway."
• Tiger Woods turned down an offer worth approximately $700-$800 million to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series - "Golf legend turned down almost $1 billion offer to join Saudi-backed LIV Golf series."
• TikTok founder becomes China's richest man - "Zhang Yiming is now worth $49.3bn - 43% more than in 2023. The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person."
• Tim Cook is now a billionaire, but not the Jeff Bezos kind - "Unlike others in the three comma club, Cook isn’t his company’s founder."
• Timing, luck or talent - what makes a billionaire? - "What do an Italian communist student of mime, a toddler with an eye for a ball and a comedian who jokes about nothing have in common? They all went on to become members of a very select global club. Miuccia Prada, Tiger Woods and Jerry Seinfeld are among about 2,800 people on the planet who are US-dollar billionaires."
• To cap off his amazing week, Elon Musk just made $770 million - "The CEO of Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX achieved his boyhood dream of launching two American astronauts into space for the first time. He also just got 1.68 million stock options that provided him with a $770 million payday."
• To understand how rich billionaires really are, use this calculator - "Jeff Bezos is richer than hundreds of countries, and earns my entire salary in under a minute."
• Tom Ford’s $2.8 Billion Deal To Sell His Fashion Brand To EstÉe Lauder Makes Him A Billionaire - "The 61-year-old fashion designer joins the billionaire ranks 17 years after founding his eponymous fashion brand, thanks to a deal that valued his company at $2.8 billion."
• Top 10 Billionaire Moments Of The Decade - "From Elizabeth Holmes’ Downfall To Donald Trump’s Election."
• top 10 cities billionaires call home - "From Singapore To New York City, more than 26% of the world’s 2,095 billionaires live in just 10 cities on three continents."
• top 10 richest women in the world 2020 - "There are 234 women on this year’s billionaires list." Forbes.
• Treasures from Rothschild family collection fetch over $62 million at unprecedented auction - "A vast collection of art, furniture, silver, ceramics, and jewelry long held in the private collection of the Rothschild banking dynasty sold for more than $62.6 million over several auctions at Christie’s New York."
• Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud - "It was the most spectacular trial ever held in Vietnam, befitting one of the greatest bank frauds the world has ever seen."

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• UK gave sanctioned Russians ‘golden visas’ after first Ukraine invasion - "Government accused of ‘shocking complacency’ over awards to seven Putin cronies."
• UK sanctions Russian oligarch & Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich - "The UK has added Russian oligarch and Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich to its list of sanctioned individuals as part of its efforts to 'isolate' Russian President Vlamidir Putin following Russia's invasion of Ukraine - throwing the sale of the London club into doubt and prohibiting the buying or selling of players until further notice."
• UK super-rich would be ‘bored to death’ in tax havens - survey - "Interviews with top earners reveal many are too attached to UK’s cultural institutions and fear stigma surrounding economic migration."
• Ukraine's richest man plans to sue Russia for huge losses - "Ukraine's richest man says he plans to sue Russia over what he said was $17 billon to $20 billion in losses caused by its bombardment of steel plants he owns in the devastated city of Mariupol."
• Ukrainian oligarch used Monaco front companies to facilitate money-laundering - "Investigative journalists working in Ukraine with Radio Liberty Ukraine have unveiled a paper trail linking several properties in France, yachts, and other assets to the fugitive Ukrainian financier Ihor Kolomoisky, who stands accused of diverting 5.5 billion euros from PrivatBank, in which he was the biggest single shareholder. Almost one in three Ukrainians had deposits at the bank and the diverted funds accounted for five percent of Ukraine’s GDP."
• Ultra high net worth individuals look to Monaco for post ‘non-dom’ era living - "Earlier in April this year, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced that the United Kingdom’s government will scrap the ‘non-dom’ tax status, prompting many ultra high net worth individuals to leave London in favour of more financially preferable destinations, such as Dubai and Monaco."
• Ultra-Rich May Actually Be Less Intelligent Than Lower-Paid People, Study Finds - "Intelligence helps in making money, but only to a point."
• Ultra-wealthy travelers are ditching traditional private jets & buying airliners - "See inside 2 airliner-turned-private-jets from Airbus and Boeing. Airbus and Boeing are selling their planes to ultra-high-net-worth individuals in addition to airlines. In 25 years of operation, Boeing has sold 250 of its Boeing Business Jets to the likes of royal families and wealthy individuals."
• US billionaires don’t pay tax & our politicians don’t seem bothered - "Fifteen years of tax information on thousands of plutocrats is one of the biggest stories of the decade. And yet ... crickets."
• US billionaires have become $565 billion richer during the pandemic - "The past three months have been financially painful for many Americans -- but not for billionaires."
• US billionaires 'have received $1.1tn windfall in Covid pandemic' - "Billions made by richest 660 people could pay for all of coronavirus relief package, says IPS thinktank."
• US billionaires' fortunes have skyrocketed $845 billion since March - "Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of America's billionaires saw their fortunes skyrocket over the past six months during the coronavirus pandemic - while millions of Americans are now earning less than they were before the crisis began, according to a new study."
• US has the most billionaires in the world - but here's what it doesn't have - "Wealth in the US isn’t trickling down when compared to other countries. Just look at Finland, the happiest country in the world: it only has six billionaires."
• U.S. seizes mega yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin - "The immobilized yacht is reportedly Tango, a 78-meter (254-feet) vessel that carries Cook Islands flag, and is anchored in the port of Palma de Mallorca, Spain."
• US tries to seize yacht in Fiji. But which oligarch owns it? - "A judge in Fiji is due to rule Tuesday on whether U.S. authorities can seize the luxurious superyacht Amadea - worth some $325 million - which has been stopped from leaving the South Pacific nation because of its links to Russia. But a vital question remains over which oligarch really owns the Amadea. Only one of the two possible candidates faces sanctions."

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• Vaccine & water creates Asia's new richest person - "Zhong Shanshan has seen his wealth surge $7bn this year, helping him leapfrog India's Mukesh Ambani and China's Jack Ma. His is worth $77.8bn, making him the world's 11th richest person according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Nicknamed the 'lone wolf' Mr Zhong's career has spanned journalism, mushroom farming and healthcare."
• Vladimir Putin: As Biden Mulls Sanctions, Three Theories On How Putin Makes His Millions - "According to Swedish economist Anders Aslund, the author of the 2019 book Russia’s Crony Capitalism, Putin has recruited family, childhood friends, bodyguards and others to hold his money. He estimates that each person has between $500 million and $2 billion and that his net worth is anywhere between $100 billion and $130 billion."

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• Waltons: The Richest Family in the World Heads a Massive U.S. Chain - "The Waltons are not only at the top of the list of America's richest families, but they also dominate the rest of the globe. The family's net worth of almost $350 billion is thanks to the multigenerational 'family' business, Walmart."
• Warren Buffett & Bill Gates were asked to give the secret to their success in 1 word - "They both gave the exact same answer."
• Warren Buffett compares AI to nuclear weapons in stark warning - "The so-called Oracle of Omaha acknowledged to his audience that he has little idea about the tech behind AI, but said he still fears its potential repercussions."
• Warren Buffett Ditched His Flip Phone for an iPhone in 2020 & Drinks 5 Cans of Coke a Day - "That's What Makes Him One of the Greatest Investors of All Time."
• Warren Buffett dubbed his private jet 'The Indefensible' - then renamed it 'The Indispensable' after realizing it was worth the money - "Warren Buffett bought his first private jet in 1986 and upgraded to a much pricier one in 1989. Warren Buffett may be one of the wealthiest people on the planet, but he's notoriously frugal. The famed investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO initially balked at the idea of owning a private jet, but grew to appreciate the luxury and convenience."
• Warren Buffett finally reveals the mysterious company he’s invested billions of dollars in - "Berkshire revealed it acquired nearly 26 million shares of Chubb in a Wednesday Securities and Exchange Commission filing of the company’s first quarter investments. That translates to a value of approximately $6.7 billion."
• Warren Buffett "Guaranteed" He'd Get 50% Annual Returns With Only $1 Million As Berkshire's Cash Hoard Soars To Over $189 Billion - "As far back as 1999, Mr. Buffett famously said he could achieve 50% annual returns if he had only $1 million to manage, stating, 'The highest rates of return I’ve ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see the numbers. But I was investing peanuts then. It’s a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money. I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.'"
• Warren Buffett holds these stocks for the fat yields - "One man who’s made a lot of money from dividend stocks is legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. In fact, the majority of Berkshire’s holdings are now dividend-paying companies. And that means each year, the Oracle of Omaha collects billions of dollars just from dividends."
• Warren Buffett is beating the market this year - "It looks like the Oracle of Omaha will have the last laugh this year. Shares of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) are up about 5.5% in 2022. The S&P 500 has dropped more than 15%."
• Warren Buffett is having the last laugh - "Banks, energy firms and other value stocks have rallied this year, which is great news for Buffett since the Oracle of Omaha's conglomerate invests in many of these companies. Value stocks typically have lower price-to-earnings ratios, and they're definitely not trendy. Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) shares are up about 3% this year and near an all-time high, while all the FAANGs, Microsoft (MSFT) and Tesla (TSLA) are deeply in the red. FAANG refers to Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and and Google."
• Warren Buffett Is Making A $5 Billion Bet On Private Jets - "It's no secret that private jets are a lightning rod for climate campaigners, facts be damned. However, the industry is getting a powerful endorsement from the person behind its biggest player. Last Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett, speaking at its annual shareholders' meeting and responding to a question about See's Candy and NetJets, gave a lavish endorsement of Adam Johnson, the boss of his private aviation group."
• Warren Buffett is missing out on this year's market comeback - "Warren Buffett is arguably the most legendary investor of all time. But the Oracle of Omaha has missed out on this year’s stock market rally. So far, at least."
• Warren Buffett-Led Berkshire Hathaway's $367 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock - "Let's try to figure out what exactly about Apple, which today represents just under 46% of Berkshire's entire portfolio, first drew Buffett's attention."
• Warren Buffett now owns more T-bills than the Federal Reserve - "The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate held $234.6 billion in short-term investments in Treasury bills by the end of the second quarter."
• Warren Buffett Says Apple Is Better Than Any Businesses Berkshire Owns - "Unmatched Brand Loyalty Proven As Consumers Would Give Up A Second Car For An iPhone. At the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in May, Buffett emphasized that it is 'a better business than any we own.' He clarified that while Berkshire Hathaway has invested a considerable amount in Apple, it still doesn't surpass its investment in railroads."
• Warren Buffett Says He Prefers A McDonald's Burger Over A $100 Meal - "Despite his wealth, the legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. CEO lives a frugal lifestyle, preferring the simple pleasures of a McDonald’s hamburger over extravagant dining. His Typical Lunch Is A 'Quarter-Pounder With Fries'."
• Warren Buffett Says Steve Jobs Once Called Him Asking For Advice On How To Invest Apple's Cash - "Then He Completely Ignored The Advice."
• Warren Buffett Says the Ultimate Measure of Success Comes Down to 1 Simple Word - "Buffett's words serve as a poignant reminder of what truly matters in a world that often glorifies material possessions and professional achievements. Measuring success through love. Love in its purest form."
• Warren Buffett Says, 'I Just Sit in My Office & Read All Day' - "This Lifelong Habit Is Just as Crucial to His Success. A lifelong pursuit of knowledge clearly matters. But so does building the right relationships."
• Warren Buffett Says the Ultimate Test of a Life Well Lived Boils Down to 1 Simple Principle - "How big is your bank account? In the end, it really doesn't matter."
• Warren Buffett Says True Success in Life Comes Down to Just 12 Key Decisions - "'Develop your eccentricities when young.' Here's your checklist: 12 life decisions that lead to success, using Buffett's example."
• Warren Buffett sees 'no possibility of eye-popping performance' as Berkshire Hathaway cash hoard hits record $167.6 billion - "'There remain only a handful of companies in this country capable of truly moving the needle at Berkshire, and they have been endlessly picked over by us and by others,' Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter, which the company released alongside its results on Saturday."
• Warren Buffett Transformed His Neighbor's Life Savings Of $67,000 Into $400 Million - "In 1965, a middle-aged couple in Omaha, Nebraska, faced a common yet challenging predicament: how to effectively plan for retirement. Dorothy and Myer Kripke had diligently saved and received a modest inheritance, placing them well ahead of their peers in terms of retirement planning. By that year, their savings amounted to approximately $67,000, which, when adjusted for inflation, would equate to around $650,000 today."
• Warren Buffett: 'You can't produce a baby in 1 month by getting nine women pregnant' - "Buffett says the key to investing is emotional control - not great talent or effort. 3 'forever' stocks for the long haul."
• Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Rule Will Sky-Rocket Your Productivity - "When you lack clear direction, you’ll run around in circles. You have to find specific goals and break them down to figure out what you can accomplish first."
• Warren Buffett's $31,500 House Is Now Worth $1.44 Million But He Says He Would Have Made Far More Money By Renting Instead - "Dubbed the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett is renowned for his simple and frugal lifestyle. Despite being the sixth richest person globally, with a net worth estimated at $117.9 billion, Buffett continues to live in the same modest home in Omaha that he purchased in 1958 for just $31,500. Adjusted for inflation, that amount today would be approximately $328,990.80, a mere 0.000279% of his total net worth."
• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway cuts stake in Apple by nearly 50% - "Berkshire Hathaway disclosed its holdings in Apple were valued at $84.2 billion at the end of the quarter, dropping from 790 million shares to 400 million shares. The sharp selloff is notable for Buffett, who is known for holding onto stocks for long periods of time."
• Warren Buffett’s breakup with the Gates Foundation will hurt the world - "Buffett’s decision to put his money into a foundation controlled by his kids is a mistake. 'Three eccentrics have to agree on how to spend $135 billion' sounds more like the premise for a sitcom than a process that will accomplish real good with that much money."
• Warren Buffett's Classic Genie Story Is a Great Lesson in Taking Care of Your Mental Health - "Buffett says, 'You only get one mind and one body. And it's got to last a lifetime.'"
• Warren Buffett's Remarkably Easy Writing Hack to Simplify Complex Ideas - "Three questions to ask before you write a word."
• Warren Buffett's wife grumbles about $4 coffee at Sun Valley - "The wife of legendary investor Warren Buffett was overheard at Allen & Co’s annual 'summer camp for billionaires' complaining to a resort staffer about having to pay $4 for a cup of coffee."
• Wealth of world's 10 richest men doubled in pandemic, Oxfam says - "Lower incomes for the world's poorest contributed to the death of 21,000 people each day, its report claims. Oxfam typically releases a report on global inequality at the start of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. However for the second year running, the meeting (scheduled for this week) will be online-only after the emergence of the Omicron variant derailed plans to return to an in-person event."
• Wealth secret of the super rich revealed: be born into a rich family - "The 10 richest dynasties, such as those behind Walmart and Mars, grew their net worth by $136bn during the pandemic, report finds."
• Wealth tax on super-rich could raise $2tn globally, campaigners say - "The Tax Justice Network said trillions could be raised with a ‘featherlight’ tax on the 0.5% of richest households, copying a current Spanish tax."
• Wealth X - since 2010. "Data Driven Intelligence on the World's Wealthiest Individuals." The leading wealth information and insight business offering unique data assets and insight on the world's wealthiest individuals.
• Wealthiest Americans’ tax avoidance - the shock report’s most striking details - "A new investigation by ProPublica shows in some years men such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk paid no federal income tax."
• Wealthy Norwegians Are Moving To This Remote Tax Haven - Forbes.
• What are ‘Big Short’ Michael Burry & Warren Buffett seeing that we aren’t? - "The S&P 500 index is up nearly 17% year to date, and the Nasdaq composite is more than 30% higher. Americans keep spending money, unemployment is low, the Federal Reserve may soon pause its painful interest rate hikes as inflation rates steadily - albeit slowly - come down. But Securities and Exchange Commission filings out Monday showed that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) sold almost $8 billion more in shares than it bought in the second quarter of 2023. That’s not too much by his standards, but a significant move when the market is up."
• What could the US afford if it raised billionaires' taxes? We do the math - "If the richest 1% of American households paid at the same rates they did in the 40s and 50s, the change could be transformative."
• What Happens When the Super Rich Are This Selfish? (It Isn’t Pretty) - "Today’s rich, their wealth largely preserved through the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, have opposed reforms aimed at tapping their resources to fund mitigation policies of all kinds."
• WHAT IS STEALTH WEALTH? 9 EASY WAYS TO LIVE UNDER THE RADAR - "Stealth wealth is the opposite of conspicuous consumption, and it’s about financial freedom and a successful personal life."
• What the Saga of One of the World's Richest Men Reveals About China Under Xi Jinping - "Where Is Alibaba Founder Jack Ma?"
• What The World's Richest People Are Doing To Fight Climate Change - "A recent UN report found that the richest 1% of the world population account for 15% of emissions. 'The wealthy bear the greatest responsibility in this area,' the report found, referring to changes in consumer behavior prioritizing low-carbon consumption. 'This elite will need to reduce their footprint by a factor of 30 to stay in line with the Paris Agreement targets,' it added."
• What’s Elon Musk Actually After? - "The world’s richest man has bought Twitter for $44 billion. This cash could completely cancel world hunger (with seven bil to spare) or give every American citizen a cold million in the bank."
• Where billionaires spend the holidays - "Many people spend the holiday season at home with friends or family. Meanwhile, the world's richest people jet off to ski towns, second homes, and destination resorts. Here's a look at some of the most popular destinations for the ultrawealthy during the holidays."
• Where Elon Musk Lives Since He Pledged To Ditch ‘Almost All Physical Possessions’ - "After promising to sell nearly everything he owned last year including six mansions in California, Tesla’s billionaire CEO has taken up residence in a studio-apartment sized rental - here’s what it looks like inside and out."
• Who Are the Richest People in Africa? - "This infographic ranks the wealthiest 15 billionaires on the African continent by their total net worth and country."
• Who’s Who Behind the Most Expensive Private Jets in the World - "Celebrities are used to living lives full of luxurious items that the average Joe can’t afford. From sprawling mansions to top-of-the-line cars, being rich has never looked so good. While driving a fancy car is one thing, every A-lister knows they’ve truly made it when they buy a private jet. These multi-million-dollar aircraft aren’t just a means to an end, but an investment that allows the world’s elite to get from A to B. From Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett to talented artist power-couple Beyonce and Jay-Z, these famous faces know all about traveling in style."
• Why are billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg building bunkers & buying islands? - "Tycoons who buy underground bunkers may seem like they’re preparing for apocalypse - but they’re not, say these University of Queensland researchers."
• Why are billionaires obsessed with going to space? - "If civilisation perishes on planet Earth, Musk, Bezos and Branson seem to think humans have a backup elsewhere."
• Why Billionaires Are Buying Up Sports Teams - "Soaring team values, investment security, and extreme scarcity make franchise ownership a magnet for magnates, the rare investment capable of making even dumb money look smart. The economics of sports franchise ownership have exploded beyond imagination. The latest status symbol for owners: 80,000 seats and more toilets than you could dream of."
• Why 'Common Prosperity’ Has China’s Billionaires Running for Cover - TIME Magazine.
• Why Elon Musk Is Cash Poor (For A Billionaire) - Forbes.
• Why it is no longer cool to be a crazy rich Asian in China - "For years, China's glamorous rich have been known to be ostentatious, showing off their luxury cars and handbags online - often to the envy of their followers. But increasingly, any kind of wealth flaunting - intentional or otherwise - is being met with hostility and disdain."
• Why Kylie Jenner is no longer a billionarie - "Inside Kylie Jenner’s Web Of Lies. Earlier this year, Kylie Jenner sold half of her cosmetics company in one of the greatest celebrity cash outs of all time. But the deal’s fine print reveals that she has been inflating the size and success of her business. For years."
• Why so many people hate the super-rich - but still love Elon Musk & Bill Gates, according to psychology - "The Ohio State University and Cornell University published new research on Monday showing why people tend to admire individual billionaires, but dislike the socioeconomic class of extremely wealthy people."
• Why the ‘ludicrously capacious’ bag on Succession was such a faux pas for the very wealthiest - "In this week’s newsletter: Poor Bridget’s nouveau riche tastes are everything old money families like the Roys hate: loud, practical and the sign of a class interloper."
• Why the super-rich love understated dressing - "Quiet 'stealth-luxe' fashion is dominating runways and TV screens - but why now? Clare Thorp explores the low-key, under-the-radar world of stealth wealth."
• Why The World’s Wealthy Have Quietly Moved To Dubai - "During the pandemic many expats left Dubai for home. But with so many wealthy families now relocating to Dubai, recruiters are having to offer big incentives to lure investment professionals back to the Emirate."
• Why Tracking Putin’s Wealth Is So Difficult - "Amid speculation that oligarchs are holding cash and luxury assets for the Russian president, many of his extravagances can be traced elsewhere: the Russian state."
• Will LVMH Owner Bernard Arnault Also Become Owner Of Patek Philippe? - "His Tiffany Blue Nautilus Ref. 5740/1G could be a glimpse of the future."
• Will Richard Branson ever be Richard Branson again? - "Richard Branson loves a challenge. The Virgin Group founder has built a reputation, and his more than $4 billion fortune, on the back of his willingness to take bold risks and venture into new areas of business."
• will we ever have trillionaires? - "Apple has crossed over into the four-comma club - what would it take for a person to do the same?"
• With an empire of handbags & cognac, Bernard Arnault elbows past tech titan Jeff Bezos to top world’s richest list - "French luxury mogul Bernard Arnault isn’t sending anybody into outer space, but his fortunes sure are taking off."
• With Louboutin, can the Agnellis take on European luxury? - "With a minority stake in Christian Louboutin and a majority stake in Shang Xia, the emblematic Agnelli family signals ambition in luxury goods. Work lies ahead."
• World gained 5.2m millionaires last year in Covid crisis - report - "Wealth gap has widened as rich cash in on rising shares and house prices, says Credit Suisse."
• World’s Best Venture Capitalist Is Not Who You’d Guess - "In just two days last year, Alfred Lin enjoyed two of the 10 biggest-ever exits among U.S. tech firms. On December 9, food-delivery service DoorDash went public on the New York Stock Exchange; it ended the day with a market capitalization of $60 billion. The next day, home-rental leader Airbnb listed on the Nasdaq, scoring a $79 billion market cap. Those two outcomes alone generated profits - on paper, at least - of more than $21 billion for Lin and his VC firm, Sequoia."
• World's Billionaires - (1987-2021).
• World's billionaires became 20% richer in 2017, report reveals - "UBS report shows billionaires increased fortunes by $1.4tn, more than the GDP of Spain."
• World’s richest celebrate end of summer at $4bn Monaco yacht show - "Number of billionaires interested in superyachts said to have grown despite Russia sanctions and global economic crisis."
• world's richest family live in $478m house, own 700 cars - "Royal family of Abu Dhabi owns eight aircrafts and football team Manchester City."
• World's richest man just got a whole lot richer! - "Elon Musk is poised to collect $23bn bonus after Tesla reports record profits."
• World's richest man weighs which of his 5 children will take over empire - "Bernard Arnault, the richest man in the world, is the head of the LVMH empire - a $500 billion luxury powerhouse home to dozens of iconic brands like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany, Dom Pérignon, and Sephora. Like Logan Roy in the HBO series 'Succession,' he's looking to one of his children to take the reins."
• world's WEALTHIEST women 2024 - "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's ex-wife MacKenzie Scott lands the fifth spot in Forbes' list of richest ladies after giving away more than $17.3 BILLION (but her fortune PALES in comparison to the top spot holder)."
• world's two richest men are fighting over space real estate - "SpaceX and Amazon (AMZN) - companies run by the two richest men in the world - are sparring over their competing satellite-based internet businesses, with SpaceX accusing Amazon of 'stifling competition' and Amazon accusing SpaceX of looking to 'smother competition in the cradle.'"
• World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem' - "The world’s wealthy must radically change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says. It says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN."
• World's Wealthiest Family Makes $4 Million Every Hour - "The 25 wealthiest dynasties on the planet control $1.4 trillion. The numbers are mind-boggling: $70,000 per minute, $4 million per hour, $100 million per day. That’s how quickly the fortune of the Waltons, the clan behind Walmart Inc., has been growing since last year’s Bloomberg ranking of the world’s richest families."
• Worth 5 times more than Elon Musk & Bill Gates combined - "The Saudi royal family leads a life so luxurious that even billionaires cannot imagine - Their megayacht has a $450M painting, they drive gold plated supercars and their palaces have thousands of rooms."
• W. R. Berkley, Florida billionaire commissioned Vacheron Constantin to create the world’s most complicated watch - "With 63 different complications, 2,877 parts, and 31 hands, it took the watchmaker a year just to assemble the multi million dollar timepiece."

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• ‘You have to do things perfectly ... but it’s so secret’: how to build an oligarch’s yacht - Designers from Norway, construction workers from Germany and UK crews balance discretion with flamboyance in the finished product.

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• Zhang Yiming: TikTok founder becomes China's richest man - "Zhang Yiming is now worth $49.3bn - 43% more than in 2023. The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person."

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• Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Abdulla Al Futtaim - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Abdullah Al Rajhi - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• ABIGAIL JOHNSON - net worth: US$10.3 billion.
• Abilio dos Santos Diniz - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
• Achmad Hamami - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Adi Godrej - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Ahmet Çalik - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Ahmet Nazif Zorlu - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Ahsen Ozokur - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Ajay Kalsi - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Ajay Piramal - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Akira Mori - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Alain & Gerard Wertheimer - net worth: US$7.5 billion.
• Alain Merieux - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• Alan Howard - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Albert FrÈre - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
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• Albert von Thurn und Taxis - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Alberto BaillÈres Gonzalez - net worth: US$16.5 billion.
• Alec Gores - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila - net worth: US$9.5 billion.
• Alex Beard - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Alexander Abramov - net worth: US$5.4 billion.
• Alexander Frolov - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Alexander Knaster - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Alexander Machkevich - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Alexander Mamut - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Alexander Nesis - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Alexander Ponomarenko - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Alexander Skorobogatko - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Alexander Svetakov - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Alexandra SchÖrghuber - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Alexei Kuzmichev - net worth: US$6.7 billion.
• Alexei Mordashov - net worth: US$15.3 billion.
• Alfred Taubman - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Ali Metin Kazanci - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• ALICE WALTON - net worth: US$35.1 billion. World's second richest woman
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• Alicia Koplowitz - net worth: US$2.1 billion. Spain's richest woman.
• Alijan Ibragimov - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
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• ALIKO DANGOTE - net worth: US$16.1 billion. Africa's richest man.
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• Alisher Usmanov - net worth: US$13.4 billion. Russia's richest man.
• Aloysio de Andrade Faria - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Alfredo Egydio Arruda Villela Filho - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Aloys Wobben - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
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• Al Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud - net worth: US$32.4 billion.
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• Amancio Ortega- net worth: US$66.4 billion. Spain's & Europe's richest man. World's third richest.
• AmÉrico Amorim - net worth: US$4.4 billion.
• Amos Hostetter, Jr. - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
• ANANDA KRISHNAN - net worth: US$9.9 billion.
• Anas Sefrioui - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Anatoly Sedykh - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Anatoly Skurov - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• AndrÉ Esteves - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Andreas Strungmann - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Andreas von Bechtolsheim - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Andrei Filatov - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Andrei Guriev - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Andrei Klyamko - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Andrei Molchanov - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Andrei Skoch - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Andrej Babis - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• ANDREW BEAL - net worth: US$7 billion.
• Andrew Forrest - net worth: US$5.8 billion.
• Andrew Jerrold "Jerry" Perenchio - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Andrew Tan - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• ANDREY MELNICHENKO - net worth: US$10.8 billion.
• Angela Bennett & Michael Wright - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Angela Leong - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Anil Agarwal - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• ANIL AMBANI - net worth: US$7.8 billion.
• Anita Zucker - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Ann Walton Kroenke - net worth: US$3.9 billion.
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• Anne Cox Chambers - net worth: US$12.5 billion. The oldest member of the billionaires club (?).
• Antti Herlin - net worth: US$2 billion. Finland's first billionaire.
• Anthony Bamford - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Anthony Pritzker - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• ANTONIA AX:SON JOHNSON - net worth: US$6.5 billion.
• AntÔnio ErmÍrio de Moraes - net worth: US$12.2 billion.
• Antonio Luiz Seabra - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Aras Agalarov - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Archie Aldis Emmerson - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Aristotelis Mistakidis - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Arne Wilhelmsen - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Arnon Milchan - net worth: US$3.8 billion.
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• Athina Onassis-Miranda - net worth: US$1 billion (?).
• Arthur Blank - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• August von Finck - net worth: US$7.8 billion.
• Austen Cargill II - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Austin Hearst - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Axel Oberwelland - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Ayman Hariri - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• AZIM PREMJI - net worth: US$15.9 billion.

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• Bahaa Hariri - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Barbara Carlson Gage - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Barbara Piasecka Johnson - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
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• Barry Diller - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Barry Lam - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• Bassam Alghanim - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Beny Steinmetz - net worth: US$5.9 billion.
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• BERNARD ARNAULT - net worth: US$222.5 billion as of April 3, 2024. Founder, chairman, and CEO of LVMH, a large luxury goods conglomorate consisting of over fifty luxury brands, including Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Fendi. Becamme world's richest person on May 24, 2021 & again as of December, 2022.
• Bernard (Barry) Sherman - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• Bernard Broermann - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
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• Bernard Ecclestone - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Bernard Marcus - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht - net worth: US$17.8 billion.
• Bertil Hult - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Bharat Desai - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Bidzina Ivanishvili - net worth: US$6.4 billion. The richest man in Georgia.
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• BILL GATES - net worth: US$103.4 billion as of December 27, 2022. World's richest person 2014. World's sixth richest person.
• Bill Gross - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Bill Marriott, Jr. - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Billy Joe (Red) McCombs - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• BIRGIT RAUSING - net worth: US$14 billion.
• Blair Parry-Okeden - net worth: US$6.3 billion.
• Bob Parsons - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Brad Kelley - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Bradley Wayne Hughes - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Brijmohan Lall Munjal - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Bruce Halle - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Bruce Karsh - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• BRUCE KOVNER - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• Bruno Schroder - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Bulat Utemuratov - net worth: US$1.5 billion.

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• CARL ICAHN - net worth: US$20.3 billion.
• Carlo Benetton - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Carlo Fidani - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Carlos & Alejandro Bulgheroni - net worth: US$5.1 billion.
• Carlos Alberto Sicupira - net worth: US$5.2 billion.
• Carlos Hank Rhon - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor - net worth: US$2 billion.
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• CARLOS SLIM HELU - world's second richest man. Net worth: US$80 billion.
• Chairul Tanjung - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Chaleo Yoovidhya - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Chan Laiwa - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Chandru Raheja - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Chang Yung Fa - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Charles Brandes - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Charles Bronfman - net worth: US$2 billion.
• CHARLES BUTT - net worth: US$6.4 billion.
• Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken - net worth: US$7.7 billion. The richest woman in the Netherlands.
• CHARLES CADOGAN - net worth: US$4.6 billion. 8th Earl Cadogan.
• Charles Dolan - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Charles Ergen - net worth: US$8.3 billion.
• CHARLES G. KOCH - net worth: US$34 billion.
• CHARLES JOHNSON - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• Charles R. Schwab - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi - net worth: US$5.5 billion.
• Che Jianxin - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Chee Chen Tung - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Chen Din Hwa - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Chen Fashu - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Chen Jianhua - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
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• Chen Lihua - net worth: US$6 billion. The richest woman in China. Richest self-made woman.
• Cher Wang & Wenchi Chen - net worth: US$4 billion.
• CHENG YU-TUNG - net worth: US$16 billion.
• Chey Tae-Won - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Chip Wilson - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Christoffel Wiese - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Christopher Cline - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Christopher Goldsbury - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
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• CHRISTY WALTON - net worth: US$37.9 billion. The richest woman in the world.
• Chu Lam Yiu - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Chung Eui-Sun - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Chung Mong-Joon - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Chung Mong-Koo - net worth: US$6.2 billion.
• Clayton Mathile - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Clayton Riddell - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Clemmie Spangler, Jr. - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Clive Calder - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Craig McCaw - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• CURT ENGELHORN - net worth: US$6.6 billion.
• Cyrus Poonawalla - net worth: US$2.9 billion.

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• Dan Wilks - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Daniel D'Aniello - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Daniel Gilbert - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Daniel Mate - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Daniel Och - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Daniel Pritzker - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Daniel Ziff - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Daniela Herz - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Danil Khachaturov - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Dannine Avara - net worth: US$4.1 billion.
• Daryl Katz - net worth: US$2 billion.
• David & Frederick Barclay - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• David & Simon Reuben - net worth: US$9 billion.
• David Azrieli - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• David Bonderman - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• David Cheriton - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• David Duffield - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• David E. Shaw - net worth: US$3 billion.
• David Filo - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• DAVID GEFFEN - net worth: US$5.5 billion.
• David Gottesman - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• David Green - net worth: US$4 billion.
• David H. Murdock - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• David Hains - net worth: US$2 billion.
• David Harding - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• David Hearst, Jr. - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• David Nahmad - net worth: US$3 billion.
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• David Rockefeller, Sr. - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• David Rubenstein - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• David Sun - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• DAVID TEPPER - net worth: US$5.1 billion.
• DAVID THOMSON - net worth: US$20.3 billion.
• Dean White - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Denis O'Brien - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Deniz Sahenk - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Dennis Washington - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Dermot Desmond - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Desh Bandhu Gupta - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Dhanin Chearavanont - net worth: US$7 billion.
• Diane Hendricks - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Dieter Schnabel - net worth: US$4.7 billion.
• Dieter Schwarz - net worth: US$23.9 billion. Germany's second richest person.
• DIETMAR HOPP - net worth: US$5.5 billion.
• Dietrich Mateschitz - net worth: US$5.3 billion.
• Dilip Shanghvi - net worth: US$7.4 billion.
• Dinu Patriciu - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Dirk Ziff - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Dmitry Mazepin - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Dmitry Pumpyansky - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Dmitry Rybolovlev - net worth: US$9 billion.
• DONALD BREN - net worth: US$12 billion.
• DONALD NEWHOUSE - net worth: US$6.4 billion.
• Donald Sterling - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
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• DONALD TRUMP - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Donna MacMillan - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Doris Fisher - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Dorothea Steinbruch - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• Douglas Hsu - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Drayton McLane, Jr. - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Dulce Pugliese de Godoy Bueno - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Dustin Moskovitz - net worth: US$3.5 billion. The world's youngest self-made billionaire. He is eight days younger than Mark Zuckerberg.

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• Eddie & Sol Zakay - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Edmund Ansin - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Edson de Godoy Bueno - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Eduardo Cojuangco - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Eduardo Hochschild - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
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• Eduardo Saverin - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Edward Bass - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Edward DeBartolo, Jr. - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Edward Johnson, III - net worth: US$5.8 billion.
• Edward Lampert - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Edward P. Roski, Jr. - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Edwin Soeryadjaya - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
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• EIKE BATISTA - net worth: US$30 billion. Brazil's richest man.
• Eitaro Itoyama - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Elaine Wynn - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• ELI BROAD - net worth: US$6.3 billion.
• Elie Horn - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte - net worth: US$10.2 billion.
• Eliseo Alexandre Soares dos Santos - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Elizabeth Mohn - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
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• Elon Musk - net worth: US$137.6 billion as of December 27, 2022. World's second richest person.
• Elon Musk has lost a bigger fortune than anyone in history - "Elon Musk’s wealth destruction has become historic. The CEO of Tesla (TSLA), SpaceX and Twitter is worth $137 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, good enough for second place on the list of the world’s richest behind LVMH (LVMHF) Chairman Bernard Arnault. But at its peak in November 2021, Musk’s net worth was $340 billion."
• Emanuele (Lino) Saputo - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• Emilio AzcÁrraga Jean - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Ennio Doris - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Enrique Banuelos - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Eric Lefkofsky - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• ERIC SCHMIDT - net worth: US$6.9 billion.
• Erivan Haub - net worth: US$4 billion.
• Erman Ilicak - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Ernesto Bertarelli - net worth: US$10.6 billion.
• Esther Grether - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Esther Koplowitz - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• EYAL OFER - net worth: US$5.8 billion.

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• Fahd Hariri - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Farris Wilks - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Ferit Faik Şahenk - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Fernando Roberto Moreira Salles - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Filaret Galchev - net worth: US$4.4 billion.
• Filiz Sahenk - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Florentino Perez - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• FORREST MARS, JR. - net worth: US$13.8 billion.
• Francis Choi - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Francisco Ivens de Sa Dias Branco - net worth: US$3.8 billion.
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• FranÇois Pinault - net worth: US$13 billion.
• FRANK LOWY - net worth: US$4.4 billion.
• Fred DeLuca - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Frederick W. Smith - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Fredrik Lundberg - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Friede Springer - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Friedhelm Loh - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Frits Goldschmeding - net worth: US$2.8 billion.

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• Gabe Newell - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• GALEN WESTON - net worth: US$7.6 billion.
• Gao Dekang - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Gary Burrell - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Gary Magness - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Gary Michelson - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
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• Gautam Adani - net worth: US$125.7 billion as of December 27, 2022. World's third richest person.
• Gautam Thapar - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Gayle Cook - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Gennady Timchenko - net worth: US$9.1 billion.
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• Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor - net worth: US$11 / £7.35 billion. 6th Duke of Westminster. The richest British person.
• George Randolph Hearst, Jr. - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• GEORGE KAISER - net worth: US$10 billion.
• George Lindemann - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
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• George Lucas - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• George P. Mitchell - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• George R. Roberts - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
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• GEORGE SOROS - net worth: US$23 billion.
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• Georgina "Gina" Hope Rinehart - net worth: US$17 billion. Second richest woman in the world.
• Gerald J. Ford - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• German Khan - net worth: US$8.5 billion.
• GermÁn Larrea Mota-Velasco - net worth: US$14.2 billion.
• Gilberto Benetton - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
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• Giorgio Armani - net worth: US$7.3 billion.
• Giuliana Benetton - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Gleb Fetisov - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Glen Taylor - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Glenn Dubin - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• God Nisanov - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Gong Hongjia - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
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• Gordon Getty - net worth: US$2 billion.
• GORDON MOORE - net worth: US$4.9 billion.
• GRAEME HART - net worth: US$5.7 billion. New Zealand's richest person.
• Gregorio Perez Companc - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Guangchang Guo - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• GÜnter Herz - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• GÜnther Fielmann - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Guilherme Peirao Leal - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Gustaf Douglas - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Gustavo Cisneros - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
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• Guy LalibertÉ - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer - net worth: US$3.3 billion.

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• Haim Saban - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Han Chang-Woo - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Hank & Doug Meijer - net worth: US$4.9 billion.
• Hans Melchers - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Hans Riegel - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Hans-Werner Hector - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• HansjÖrg Wyss - net worth: US$8.1 billion.
• HAROLD HAMM - net worth: US$11 billion.
• Harold Simmons - net worth: US$9 billion.
• Harry Triguboff - net worth: US$4 billion.
• Harry Wayne Huizenga - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• HASSO PLATTNER - net worth: US$7.3 billion.
• Hawken Xiu Li - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• He Xiangjian - net worth: US$6.2 billion.
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• Heidi Horten - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• Heinz Hermann Thiele - net worth: US$4.4 billion.
• Heinz-Horst Deichmann - net worth: US$4.1 billion.
• Helen Johnson-Leipold - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Helmut Sohmen - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Henadiy Boholyubov - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Henry Hillman - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Henry Kravis - net worth: US$4 billion.
• Henry Nicholas III - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Henry Ross Perot, Jr. - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
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• Henry Ross Perot, Sr. - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Henry Samueli - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• HENRY SY - net worth: US$8 billion.
• Herbert Allen, Jr. - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Herbert Fisk Johnson III - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Herbert Kohler, Jr. - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Herbert Simon - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Hiroshi Mikitani - net worth: US$6.2 billion.
• Hiroshi Yamauchi - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• HORST PAULMANN - net worth: US$9.3 billion.
• Howard Marks - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Howard Schultz - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Huang Rulun - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Huang Wei - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Huang Yi - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Huang Zelan - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Hubert Burda - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Hui Ka Yan - net worth: US$5.8 billion.
• Hui Lin Chit - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Hui Wing Mau - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• HÜsnÜ ÖzyeĞin - net worth: US$3 billion.

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• Ian & Richard Livingstone - net worth: US$3 billion.
• IDAN OFER - net worth: US$6.2 billion.
• Igor Altushkin - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Igor Makarov - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Igor Olenicoff - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Igor Zyuzin - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Ihor Kolomoyskyy - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Imogene Powers Johnson - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Indu Jain - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Ingeburg Herz - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Ira Rennert - net worth: US$5.4 billion.
• IRIS FONTBANA - net worth: US$17.8 billion.
• Irwin Jacobs - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
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• Isabel dos Santos - net worth: US$1 billion. Africa’s first woman billionaire.
• Isak Andic - net worth: US$4.8 billion.
• Iskander Makhmudov - net worth: US$8.2 billion.
• Israel Englander - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Ivan Glasenberg - net worth: US$7.3 billion.

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• J. Christopher Reyes - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
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• J.K. ROWLING - net worth: US$1 billion.
• Jack C. Taylor - net worth: US$10.4 billion.
• Jack Dangermond - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
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• Jack Ma - net worth: US$21.8 billion. "Godfather of China’s scrappy entrepreneurial spirit." China’s Richest Man.
• Jacky Xu - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• JACQUELINE MARS - net worth: US$22.2 billion.
• James & Arthur Irving - net worth: US$5 billion.
• James Balsillie - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• James Cargill II - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• James Coulter - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• James Dinan - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• James Dyson - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• JAMES GOODNIGHT - net worth: US$7.3 billion.
• James Harris Simons - net worth: US$10.7 billion.
• James Irsay - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• James Jannard - net worth: US$3 billion.
• James Leprino - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• JAMES PACKER - net worth: US$4.7 billion.
• James Pritzker - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• James Ratcliffe - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Jamshyd Godrej - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Jan Kulczyk - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Jay Robert (J.B.) Pritzker - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Jay Y. Lee - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
• Jean-Claude Decaux - net worth: US$4.9 billion.
• Jean Claude Gandur - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Jean Coutu - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
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• JEFF BEZOS - net worth: US$106.3 billion as of December 27, 2022. World's fourth richest person.
• Jeff Greene - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Jeffrey Hildebrand - net worth: US$5.3 billion.
• Jeffrey Skoll - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. - net worth: US$2 billion.
• JerÓnimo Arango - net worth: US$4 billion.
• Jerry Jones - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Jerry Speyer - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Jiang Bin - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Jim Davis - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• JIM KENNEDY - net worth: US$6.3 billion.
• Jim Pattison - net worth: US$4.3 billion.
• JIM WALTON - net worth: US$26.7 billion.
• Jin Sook & Do Won Chang - net worth: US$4 billion.
• Joan Tisch - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• JoÃo Alves de Queiroz Filho - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• JoÃo Moreira Salles - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Joe Jamail, Jr. - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Joe Lewis - net worth: US$3.8 billion.
• JOHANN GRAF - net worth: US$5.3 billion.
• Johann Rupert - net worth: US$5.1 billion.
• JOHANNA QUANDT - net worth: US$10 billion.
• John A. Sobrato - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• JOHN C. MALONE - net worth: US$5.1 billion.
• John Catsimatidis - net worth: US$2 billion.
• John Caudwell - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• John D. Arnold - net worth: US$3 billion.
• John de Mol - net worth: US$2 billion.
• John Doerr - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• John Dorrance III - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• John Fisher - net worth: US$2 billion.
• JOHN FRANKLYN MARS - net worth: US$13.8 billion.
• JOHN FREDRIKSEN - net worth: US$11.3 billion.
• John Gandel - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• John Menard, Jr. - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• John Paul DeJoria - net worth: US$4 billion.
• JOHN PAULSON - net worth: US$12.5 billion.
• John Pritzker - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• John Sall - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• John Tu - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• John Whittaker - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Johnelle Hunt - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Jonathan Nelson - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Jorge Paulo Lemann - net worth: US$12 billion.
• JosÉ Isaac Peres - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Joseph Craft III - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• JOSEPH LAU - net worth: US$6.5 billion.
• Joseph Mansueto - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• JOSEPH SAFRA - net worth: US$13.8 billion.
• Joshua Harris - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Juan AbellÓ - net worth: US$2 billion.
• JUAN ROIG - net worth: US$4.7 billion.
• Jude Reyes - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Judy Faulkner - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Julian Robertson, Jr. - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Julio Bozano - net worth: US$1.3 billion.

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• K. Anji Reddy - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Kalanithi Maran - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Kamil Yazici - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Karen Pritzker - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
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• KARL ALBRECHT - net worth: US$26 billion. The wealthiest person in Germany.
• Karl-Heinz Kipp - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Karl Wlaschek - net worth: US$4.7 billion.
• Katsumi Tada - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Kavitark Ram Shriram - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Kazuo Okada - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Keiichiro Takahara - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Kelcy Warren - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Ken Fisher - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
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• Kenneth C. Griffin - net worth: US$7 billion.
• Kenneth Langone - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Kerr Neilson - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Kerry Stokes - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Kiki Barki - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Kim Jung-Ju - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Kim Tack-Jin - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
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• Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - net worth: US$10 billion. The richest person in Denmark.
• Kjell Inge Røkke - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Klaus-Michael KÜhne - net worth: US$9.8 billion.
• Klaus Tschira - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Konstantin Grigorishin - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Konstantin Nikolaev - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Kostyantin Zhevago - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Kumar Mangalam Birla - net worth: US$8 billion.
• Kunio Busujima - net worth: US$5.9 billion.
• Kuok Khoon Hong - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Kushal Pal Singh - net worth: US$6.4 billion.
• Kutayba Alghanim - net worth: US$1.6 billion.

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• LAKSHMI MITTAL - net worth: US$20.7 billion. World's richest man of Asian descent.
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• LARRY ELLISON - net worth: US$43 billion.
• LARRY PAGE - net worth: US$23 billion.
• Lars Larsen - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
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• Laurence Graff - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Laurene Powell Jobs - net worth: US$9 billion.
• Lawrence Stroll - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Leandro Rizzuto - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Lee Bass - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Lee Kun-Hee - net worth: US$8.3 billion.
• Lee Myung-Hee - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• LEE SHAU-KEE - net worth: US$20.3 billion.
• Lee Shin Cheng - net worth: US$5.2 billion.
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• Leon Black - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Leon Charney - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Leon G. Cooperman - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Leonard Blavatnik - net worth: US$11.9 billion.
• LEONARD LAUDER - net worth: US$7.1 billion.
• Leonard N. Stern - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Leonardo Del Vecchio - net worth: US$11.5 billion.
• LEONID FEDUN - net worth: US$6.5 billion.
• Leonid Michelson - net worth: US$11.9 billion.
• Leslie Wexner - net worth: US$4.3 billion.
• Leszek Czarnecki - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Lev Kvetnoi - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Lev Leviev - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Li Li - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Li Shuirong - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• LI KA-SHING - net worth: US$31 billion.
• Li Shufu - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Li Sze Lim - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• LIANG WENGEN - net worth: US$8.1 billion.
• Liao Long-Shing - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
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• LILY SAFRA - net worth: US$1.2 billion.
• Lin Li - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Lin Rong San - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Lin Yu-Lin - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Lina Maria Aguiar - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Linda Pritzker - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Lindsay Fox - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Lirio Parisotto - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Liselott Persson - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
• Ludwig Merckle - net worth: US$5.1 billion.
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• Lui Che Woo - net worth: US$26.1 billion.
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• Liu Yiqian - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Liu Yonghao - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Liu Yongxing - net worth: US$5.8 billion.
• Liu Zhongtian - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Louis Bacon - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Lorenzo Mendoza - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Low Tuck Kwong - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
• Lu Guanqiu - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Lu Xiangyang - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Lu Zhiqiang - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Luciano Benetton - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Lucio Tan - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Luis Carlos Sarmiento - net worth: US$12.4 billion. The wealthiest man in Colombia.
• Luo Jye - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Lynn Schusterman - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
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• Lynsi Torres - net worth: US$1.1 billion. Currently the youngest American female billionaire.

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• Ma Huateng - net worth: US$4.7 billion.
• Ma Xingtian - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Malcolm Glazer - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Malvinder & Shivinder Singh - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Manoj Bhargava - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Manuel Jove - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Manuel Moroun - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
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• Marc Andreessen - net worth: US$600 million.
• Marc Benioff - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Marc Lasry - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Marc Rowan - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Marcel Herrmann Telles - net worth: US$5.7 billion.
• Maria de Lourdes Egydio Villela - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Marianne Liebmann - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Marilyn Carlson Nelson - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Mario Moretti Polegato - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Mark Coombs - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Mark Cuban - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Mark Pincus - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
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• Mark Zuckerberg - net worth: US$24.7 billion (December 31, 2013, Bloomberg).
• Martha Rivers Ingram - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Martin & Olivier Bouygues - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Martin Naughton - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Martin Viessmann - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Martua Sitorus - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Mary Alice Dorrance Malone - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Masahiro Miki - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Masatoshi Ito - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Masayoshi Son - net worth: US$7.2 billion. The richest man in Japan. Also the person who has lost the most money in history (approximately US$70 billion in the dot com crash of 2000).
• Meg Whitman - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Mehmet Emin Karamehmet - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Melker SchÖrling - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Michael & Marian Ilitch - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Michael & Rainer Schmidt-Ruthenbeck - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Michael Ashley - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
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• MICHAEL BLOOMBERG - net worth: US$27 billion.
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• MICHAEL DELL - net worth: US$15.9 billion.
• MICHAEL HARTONO - net worth: US$6.3 billion.
• Michael Heisley, Sr. - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• MICHAEL HERZ - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• Michael Hintze - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Michael Jaharis - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Michael Kadoorie - net worth: US$6.6 billion.
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• Michael Milken - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Michael Moritz - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• MICHAEL OTTO - net worth: US$17.6 billion.
• Michael Price - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Michael Ying - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Michal Solowow - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• MICHELE FERRERO - net worth: US$20.4 billion. Italy's richest person.
• MICKY ARISON - net worth: US$4.7 billion.
• Micky Jagtiani - net worth: US$3.8 billion.
• Mike Adenuga - net worth: US$4.3 billion.
• Mikhail Abyzov - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Mikhail Balakin - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Mikhail Fridman - net worth: US$13.4 billion.
• Mikhail Gutseriev - net worth: US$6.7 billion.
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• Mikhail Khodorkovsky - in 2004 the wealthiest man in Russia and one of the richest people in the world, ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires.
• Mikhail Prokhorov - net worth: US$13.2 billion.
• Milane Frantz - net worth: US$4.1 billion.
• Miloud Chaabi - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Min Kao - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Mitchell Goldhar - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Mitchell Rales - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• Miuccia Prada - net worth: US$6.8 billion.
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• Mohamed Al-Fayed - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber - net worth: US$7 billion.
• Mohamed Mansour - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Mohammed Al Issa - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Mohammed Al Rajhi - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
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• Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi - net worth: US$12.5 billion. The richest black person in the world.
• Moise Safra - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Monika Schoeller - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Mortimer Zuckerman - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• MUKESH AMBANI - net worth: US$21.5 billion.
• Murat Ülker - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Murdaya Poo - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Mustafa Latif Topbas - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Mustafa Rahmi KoÇ - net worth: US$2.5 billion.

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• Nadhmi Auchi - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Naguib Sawiris - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Najib Mikati - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Nancy Walton Laurie - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Nandan Nilekani - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Nassef Sawiris - net worth: US$5.1 billion.
• Nathaniel Philip Rothschild - net worth: US$1 billion.
• Neil Bluhm - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Nevaldo Rocha - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Nicholas Pritzker II - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
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• Nicky Oppenheimer - net worth: US$6.8 billion.
• Nicolas Berggruen - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Niels Peter Louis-Hansen - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Nikita Mishin - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Nikolai Tsvetkov - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Noam Gottesman - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Norman Braman - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• N. Murray Edwards - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• N.R. Narayana Murthy - net worth: US$1.7 billion.

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• OLAV THON - net worth: US$5 billion.
• OLEG DERIPASKA - net worth: US$8.8 billion.
• Onsi Sawiris - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
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• OPRAH WINFREY - net worth: US$2.7 billion. For a time the world's only black billionaire, and the most influential woman in the world.
• Or Wai Sheun - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Othman Benjelloun - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Otto Beisheim - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Otto Happel - net worth: US$2.9 billion.

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• Pallonji Mistry - net worth: US$9.7 billion.
• Pankaj Patel - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Pansy Ho - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Paolo & Gianfelice Mario Rocca - net worth: US$6 billion.
• Pat Stryker - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Patokh Chodiev - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Patrice Motsepe - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Patrick Joseph McGovern - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Patrick Lee - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Patrick Soon-Shiong - net worth: US$7.2 billion.
• Patrizio Bertelli - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• Paul Desmarais - net worth: US$4.3 billion.
• Paul Ramsay - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Paul Tudor Jones II - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Pauline MacMillan Keinath - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Pedro Moreira Salles - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Penny Pritzker - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Peter Buck - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Peter Cruddas - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Peter Hargreaves - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Peter Kellogg - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Peter Lim - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Peter Sondakh - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
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• Peter Thiel - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• PETER WOO - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• PETR KELLNER - net worth: US$8.2 billion.
• PHIL KNIGHT - net worth: US$14.4 billion.
• Philip & Cristina Green - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• PHILIP ANSCHUTZ - net worth: US$7 billion.
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• Philip Niarchos - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Phillip Frost - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Phillip Ruffin - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Philippe Foriel-Destezet - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Phoebe Hearst Cooke - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Pierre Bellon - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Pierre Omidyar - net worth: US$6.7 billion.
• Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - net worth: US$20 billion. Aka "The Arabian Warren Buffett."
• Pyotr Aven - net worth: US$4.3 billion.

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• Qiu Guanghe - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
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• Quek Leng Chan - net worth: US$4.2 billion.

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• Rajan Raheja - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
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• RALPH LAUREN - net worth: US$7.5 billion.
• Ralph Sonnenberg - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Randa Williams - net worth: US$4.1 billion.
• Randal J. Kirk - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• RAY DALIO - net worth: US$10 billion.
• Ray Davis - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Ray Dolby - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• RAY LEE HUNT - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Reinhold WÜrth - net worth: US$5.2 billion.
• Reinold Geiger - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
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• Richard Branson - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• RICHARD CHANDLER - net worth: US$4.6 billion.
• Richard Desmond - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• RICHARD DeVos - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Richard Elman - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• RICHARD KINDER - net worth: US$8.2 billion.
• Richard LeFrak - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Richard Li - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Richard Rainwater - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Richard M. Schulze - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Richard Marriott - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Ricardo Salinas Pliego - net worth: US$17.4 billion.
• Riley P. Bechtel - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Rinat Akhmetov - net worth: US$16 billion.
• Rishad Naoroji - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Robert Bass - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
• ROBERT Budi Hartono - net worth: US$6.5 billion.
• Robert E. Rich, Jr. - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Robert Friedland - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Robert Holding - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Robert Kraft - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• ROBERT KUOK - net worth: US$12.5 billion. The richest person in Malaysia and Southeast Asia.
• Robert McNair - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Robert Miller - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Robert Miller - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Robert Pera - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• ROBERT ROWLING - net worth: US$4.8 billion.
• Robert Ziff - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Roberto GonzÁlez Barrera - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Roberto Hernandez Ramirez - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• ROBIN LI - net worth: US$10.2 billion.
• Rodney Lewis - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Roger Wang - net worth: US$4 billion.
• Rolf Gerling - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
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• ROMAN ABRAMOVICH - net worth: US$12.1 billion.
• Roman Avdeev - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Romesh T. Wadhwani - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Ron Baron - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Ronald Burkle - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• Ronald Lauder - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• RONALD PERELMAN - net worth: US$12 billion.
• Ronda Stryker - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• RosalÍa Mera - net worth: US$4.5 billion. Spain's richest woman.
• Roustam Tariko - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Rubens Menin Teixeira de Souza - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Rupert Johnson, Jr. - net worth: US$4.4 billion.
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• Rupert Murdoch - net worth: US$11.2 billion.
• Ryoichi Jinnai - net worth: US$1.4 billion.

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• S. Curtis Johnson - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• S. Daniel Abraham - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• S. ROBSON WALTON - net worth: US$26.1 billion.
• S. Truett Cathy - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Saad Hariri - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Saif Ahmad Al Ghurair - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Saleh Kamel - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• SAM ZELL - net worth: US$4.9 billion.
• Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. - net worth: US$7.1 billion.
• Samvel Karapetyan - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Şarik Tara - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Savitri Jindal - net worth: US$10.9 billion. The wealthiest woman in India.
• Scott Cook - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Scott Duncan - net worth: US$4.1 billion.
• Sean Parker - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• SebastiÁn PiÑera - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Semahat Sevim Arsel - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Senapathy Gopalakrishnan - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• SERGE DASSAULT - net worth: US$9.9 billion.
• Sergei Galitsky - net worth: US$4.9 billion.
• Sergei Viktorovich Popov - net worth: US$5.7 billion.
• SERGEY BRIN - net worth: US$22.8 billion.
• Sergio Mantegazza - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Shahid Khan - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Shari Arison - net worth: US$3.9 billion. Israel's wealthiest woman.
• Shashi & Ravi Ruia - net worth: US$7 billion.
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• SHELDON ADELSON - net worth: US$37.2 billion.
• Shen Guojun - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Shen Wenrong - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Shi Yuzhu - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Shigenobu Nagamori - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Shin Dong-Bin - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Shin Dong-Joo - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Shiv Nadar - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Sid Bass - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Silas Chou - net worth: US$2 billion.
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• Silvio Berlusconi - net worth: US$5.9 billion.
• Sit Kwong Lam - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Soichiro Fukutake - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Song Zuowen - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Spiro Latsis - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Sri Prakash Lohia - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Stanley Druckenmiller - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• Stanley Hubbard - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Stanley Kroenke - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• Stanley Perron - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Stef Wertheimer - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• STEFAN PERSSON - net worth: US$28 billion.
• STEFAN QUANDT - net worth: US$11.2 billion.
• Stefan von Holtzbrinck - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Stefano Pessina - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Stein Erik Hagen - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Stephan Schmidheiny - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Stephen Bechtel, Jr. - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Stephen Bisciotti - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Stephen Jarislowsky - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Stephen M. Ross - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• Stephen Mandel, Jr. - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
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• Stephen Schwarzman - net worth: US$12.2 billion.
• Steve A. Cohen - net worth: US$8.3 billion.
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• STEVE BALLMER - net worth: US$15.2 billion.
• Steve Case - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
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• Steve Wynn - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Steven F. Udvar-HÁzy - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Steven M. Rales - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
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• Steven Spielberg - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• Stewart & Lynda Resnick - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Stewart Rahr - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Suh Kyung-Bae - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Suhon Lin - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Sukanto Tanoto - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi - net worth: US$5.9 billion.
• Suleyman Kerimov - net worth: US$6.5 billion.
• SUMNER REDSTONE - net worth: US$4.4 billion.
• Sun Guangxin - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Suna KiraÇ - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• SUNIL MITTAL - net worth: US$8.1 billion.
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• Susanne Klatten - net worth: US$14.6 billion. The richest woman in Germany.
• Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Sze Man Bok - net worth: US$2.1 billion.

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• T. Boone Pickens - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
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• Tadashi Yanai - net worth: US$10 billion.
• Taha Mikati - net worth: US$3 billion.
• Takemitsu Takizaki - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
• Tamara Gustavson - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Tang Yiu - net worth: US$4 billion.
• Ted Lerner - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
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• Ted Turner - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Teh Hong Piow - net worth: US$5 billion.
• Terrence Pegula - net worth: US$3.1 billion.
• TERRY GOU - net worth: US$5.5 billion.
• Thomas & Raymond Kwok - net worth: US$18.3 billion.
• Thomas Bruch - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Thomas Friedkin - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Thomas Frist, Jr. - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• Thomas Lee - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Thomas Peterffy - net worth: US$5.4 billion.
• Thomas Pritzker - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Thomas Schmidheiny - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Thomas Siebel - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Thomas Strungmann - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Tilman Fertitta - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Timothy Headington - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Tiong Hiew King - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Tom Golisano - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Tom Gores - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Tong Jinquan - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Tor Peterson - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Trevor Rees-Jones - net worth: US$3.6 billion.
• Troels Holch Povlsen - net worth: US$6 billion.
• Tsai Eng-Meng - net worth: US$6.2 billion.
• Tsai Wan-Tsai - net worth: US$6.5 billion.
• Tseng Shin-Yi - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Tuncay Özilhan - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• T.Y. Tsai - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Ty Warner - net worth: US$2.4 billion.

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• Uday Kotak - net worth: US$4.1 billion.

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• Vadim Moshkovich - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Vagit Alekperov - net worth: US$13.5 billion.
• Valery Kogan - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Vasily Anisimov - net worth: US$3.4 billion.
• Venugopal Dhoot - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Victor Fung - net worth: US$3.7 billion.
• Victor Pinchuk - net worth: US$4.2 billion.
• Vikas Oberoi - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Viktor Nusenkis - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• Viktor Rashnikov - net worth: US$5.6 billion.
• VIKTOR VEKSELBERG - net worth: US$12.4 billion.
• Vincent Bollore - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Vincent Lo - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Vinod Khosla - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Vladimir Bogdanov - net worth: US$2.9 billion.
• Vladimir Gridin - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Vladimir Iorich - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Vladimir Kim - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
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• VLADIMIR LISIN - net worth: US$15.9 billion. The richest man in Russia.
• VLADIMIR POTANIN - net worth: US$14.5 billion.
• Vladimir Yevtushenkov - net worth: US$6 billion.

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• WALLENBERG FAMILY - net worth: US$120 billion (Source: Swedish business magazine Affärsvärlden, July 2013). Major stock holdings: Ericsson, Investor, SEB, ABB.
• Walter Scott, Jr. - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Walther Moreira Salles - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
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• Wang Jianlin - net worth: US$30.4 billion. Wealthiest person in China as of 2015.
• Wang Muqing - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Wang Yung-Tsai - net worth: US$3.2 billion.
• Wang Yusuo - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
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• WARREN BUFFETT - aka 'The Oracle of Omaha'. Net worth: US$106 billion as of December 27, 2022. World's fifth richest person.
• Warren Stephens - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Wee Cho Yaw - net worth: US$3.8 billion.
• Wei Ing-Chou - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Wei Jianjun - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• Wei Yin-Chun - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Wei Yin-Heng - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Wei Ying-Chiao - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
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• Wen Jiabao - net worth: US$2.7 billion.
• Whitney MacMillan - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Wilbur Ross, Jr. - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
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• WILLIAM 'BILL' HENRY GATES III - net worth: US$80 billion. World's richest person 2014.
• William Connor II - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• William Ding - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• William E. Conway, Jr. - net worth: US$2.8 billion.
• William Fisher - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• William Fung - net worth: US$3.8 billion.
• William Koch - net worth: US$4 billion.
• William Randolph Hearst III - net worth: US$2.3 billion.
• William Wrigley, Jr. - net worth: US$2.2 billion.
• Wilma Tisch - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Winnie Johnson-Marquart - net worth: US$2.5 billion.
• WOLFGANG HERZ - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• Wong Kwong Yu - net worth: US$2 billion.
• Wong Luen Hei - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Woods Staton - net worth: US$1.7 billion.
• Wu Yajun - net worth: US$5.7 billion.
• Wu Yiling - net worth: US$1.4 billion.

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• Xavier Niel - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• Xiong Xuqiang - net worth: US$1.4 billion.

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• Yang Huiyan - net worth: US$4.7 billion.
• Yasseen Mansour - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Yeoh Tiong Lay - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Yoshikazu Tanaka - net worth: US$4.3 billion.
• Youssef Mansour - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Yuriy Kosiuk - net worth: US$1.3 billion.
• Yvonne Bauer - net worth: US$2 billion.

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• Zan Shengda - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Zarakh Iliev - net worth: US$2.4 billion.
• ZdenĚk Bakala - net worth: US$1.9 billion.
• Zelimkhan Mutsoev - net worth: US$1.5 billion.
• Zhang Jindong - net worth: US$4.5 billion.
• Zhang Li - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Zhang Shiping - net worth: US$3.5 billion.
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• Zhang Xin - net worth: US$3.6 billion. The richest woman in China.
• Zhang Zhidong - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Zhang Zhirong - net worth: US$2.6 billion.
• Zhong Sheng Jian - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Zhou Furen - net worth: US$1.6 billion.
• Zhou Chengjian - net worth: US$3.3 billion.
• Zhu Gongshan - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
• Zhu Xingliang - net worth: US$1.4 billion.
• Zhu Yicai - net worth: US$1.8 billion.
• Ziyad Manasir - net worth: US$2.1 billion.
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• Zong Qinghou - net worth: US$6.5 billion.
• Zygmunt Solorz-Žak - net worth: US$2.5 billion. The richest person in Poland.