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2012-United
States (men)
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Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
William
Gates III |
$61.0
billion |
Microsoft |
WA,
Medina |
56yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Warren Buffett |
$44.0
billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
NE,
Omaha |
81yo
-
Widowed, re-married, 3 children |
| 3.
Lawrence
Ellison |
$36.0
billion |
Oracle |
CA,
Woodside |
67yo
-
Divorced, 2 children |
| 4.
Charles Koch |
$25.0
billion |
Koch
Industries |
KS,
Wichita |
76yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
David Koch |
$25.0
billion |
Koch
Industries |
NY,
New York |
71yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Sheldon Adelson |
$24.9
billion |
casinos |
NV,
Las Vegas |
78yo
- Married,
5 children |
| 7.
Jim Walton |
$23.7
billion |
Wal-Mart |
AR,
Bentonville |
64yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
S Robson Walton |
$23.1
billion |
Wal-Mart |
AR,
Bentonville |
68yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Michael Bloomberg |
$22.0
billion |
Bloomberg
LP |
NY,
New York |
70yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 10.
George Soros |
$20.0
billion |
hedge
funds |
NY,
Katonah |
81yo
- Divorced, 5 children |
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Did
you know...? |
William
Gates III
world's richest person for 14 of the past 18 years
... Harvard Uni drop out ... he's given away $28 billion
to his Gates Foundation ... has helped eradicate polio
in India which has just had its first polio-free year
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Warren
Buffett
America's most beloved investor ... married
longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006
... will donate $31 billion to charity! |
Lawrence
Ellison
University of Illinois, drop out ... Feb 2010, finally
won yachting's most prestigious trophy, the America's
Cup ... intends to give 95% of wealth to charity ... purchased
75 companies over the years worth $40 billion |
Charles
Koch
recently published self-help business book The
Science of Success; claimed company would go
public "over my dead body." ... nation's
2nd-largest privately held company |
David
Koch
New York City's richest resident ... ran as vice presidential
candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980 ...
nation's 2nd-largest privately held company ... a past
prostate cancer sufferer like his brother, he's contributed
$750 million so far toward finding a cure for cancer |
Sheldon
Adelson
shares of Adelson's Las Vegas Sands surged more than 3,700%
since their credit crisis nadir 3 years ago |
Jim
Walton
child of Sam Walton - d. 1992 ... Wal-Mart
is the world's largest retailer, with
over 8,400 stores and 2.2 million employees in 28 countries
|
S
Robson Walton
child of Sam Walton - d. 1992 ... Wal-Mart
is the world's largest retailer, with
over 8,400 stores and 2.2 million employees in 28 countries
|
Michael
Bloomberg
mayor
of New York City |
George
Soros
retired
last year |
Previous
Top 10 Billionaires |
Sergey
Brin
school drop out ... son and grandson of mathematicians
on his father's side, mother was a research scientist
at NASA ... emigrated from Russia at age 6 ... shares
a 767 jet with Google co-founder, Larry Page ... bought
Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ...
hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007 |
Larry
Page
school drop out ... shares a 767 jet with Google co-founder,
Sergey Brin ... bought
Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ...
hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007 |
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2012-United
States (women)
TOP
10 - USA
Billionaire Women
...
(7
March 2012)
... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Christy
Walton & family |
$25.3
billion |
Wal-Mart |
WY,
Jackson |
57yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Alice
Walton |
$23.3
billion |
Wal-Mart |
TX
, Fort Worth |
62yo
- Divorced |
| 3.
Jacqueline
Mars |
$13.8
billion |
candy,
pet food |
VA,
The Plains |
72yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 4.
Anne
Cox Chambers |
$12.5
billion |
media/entertainment
- Cox Enterprises |
GA,
Atlanta |
92yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 5.
Abigail
Johnson |
$10.3
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
MA,
Milton |
50yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Laurene Powell Jobs & family |
$9.0
billion |
inheritance |
USA |
48yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 7.
Blair Parry-Okeden |
$6.3
billion |
media |
Australia,
Scone |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Danine Avara |
$4.1
billion |
inherited
(pipelines) |
TX,
Houston |
48yo
- Married |
| 8.
Milane Frantz |
$4.1
billion |
inherited
(pipelines) |
TX,
Houston |
42yo
- Married |
| 8.
Randa Williams |
$4.1
billion |
inherited
(pipelines) |
TX,
Houston |
50yo
- Married, 1 child |
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|
Did
you know...? |
Christy
Walton & family
richest woman in the world for the 7th year in a row
... widow of John Walton - son
of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who
died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005
...
Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, with over
8,400 stores and 2.2 million employees in 28 countries
|
Alice
Walton
daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton
- d. 1992
... Wal-Mart
is the world's largest retailer, with
over 8,400 stores and 2.2 million employees in 28 countries
|
Jacqueline
Mars
third generation inherited company when dad died in 1999
... incl.
Mars bar, Snickers, M&Ms ... world's largest confectioner
... acquired gum maker Wrigley in 2008 for $23 billion
... pet food division (includes Whiskas, Pedigree) now
larger than candy by sales |
Anne
Cox Chambers
WORLD'S OLDEST FEMALE BILLIONAIRE!
... holds the French Legion of
Honor title ... owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 86
radio stations |
Abigail
Johnson
her family owns
49% of Fidelity |
Laurene
Powell Jobs & family
widow
of Steve Jobs who died in October 2011 ... wealth from
Apple, Disney placed mostly into living trusts |
Blair
Parry-Okeden
inherited
25% of Cox Enterprises after her mother, Barbara Cox Anthony,
died in 2007 |
Danine
Avara
father, Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77 ...
owns more than 50,000 miles of pipelines |
Milane
Frantz
father, Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77 ...
owns more than 50,000 miles of pipelines |
Randa
Williams
father, Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77 ...
owns more than 50,000 miles of pipelines |
Previous
Top 10 Billionaires |
Pauline
MacMillan Keinath
Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries in 66 countries |
Ann
Walton Kroenke
neice of retail pioneer Sam Walton ... married to E. Stanley
Kroenke, owner of pro basketball's Denver Nuggets, hockey's
Colorado Avalanche, plus stakes in football's St. Louis
Rams and English soccer titan Arsenal. He has a separate
billion-dollar fortune ... world's largest retailer,
with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees |
Deceased
Top 10 Billionaires |
Helen
Walton
widow
of Sam Walton (d.1992) - died of natural causes on 19
Apr 2007 at age 87. Was the world's 4th
richest woman worth $16.4
billion |
Barbara
Cox Anthony
sister of Anne Cox Chambers
- died of cancer on 28 May 2007
at age 83.
Was the world's 6th richest woman
worth $12.6 billion |
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