Did
you know...? |
Eike
Batista
college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat
racer ... his father was former mining minister of
Brazil ... formerly married to Playboy cover girl
... vows to be the richest man in the world!
|
Joseph
Safra
cut financial ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006 |
Antonio
Ermirio de Moraes & family ...
increased
his net worth by $6.9 billion over last year due to discovering
that his family owns 100% of Grupo Votorantim, not 25%
as previously estimated |
Jorge
Paulo Lemann
onetime tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon ... recently
bought the Burger King chain with 2 other billionaires
(Marcel
Herman Telles and Carlos
Alberto Sicupira) |
Marcel
Herman Telles
keen spearfisherman ... recently bought the Burger King
chain with 2 other billionaires (Jorge Paulo Lemann
and
Carlos Alberto Sicupira) |
Carlos
Alberto Sicupira ...
recently
bought the Burger King chain with 2 other billionaires
(Marcel
Herman Telles and Jorge
Paulo Lemann)
|
Dorothea
Steinbruch & family
sister-in-law of billionaire, Eliezer Steinbruch, who
died in 2008 |
Aloysio
de Andrade Faria
owns
150 pure-bred horses ... trained as a doctor |
Francisco
Ivens de Sa Dias Branco
owns $1 billion in real estate in Brazil |
Ana
Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela
sister of Alfredo Egydio Arrudo Villela Filho |
Abilio
dos Santos Diniz
in 1989 he was kidnapped by Canadian terrorists who held
him in underground cells for 7 days until the federal
police set him free |
Previous
Top 10 Billionaires |
Alfredo
Egydio Arrudo Villela Filho
brother of Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela |
Deceased
Top 10 Billionaires |
Eliezer
Steinbruch
died
in 2008, age 78 ...
he was worth $4.0 billion |