Top
10 Rich Lists 2011
The
World
(men)
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Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Carlos
Slim Helu & family (2010
and 2011 World's richest man ... $20.5
billion richer this year!
... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just
call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector) |
$74
billion |
Telecom |
Mexico |
71yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 2.William
Gates III (was
world's richest person for 14 of the past 17 years ... Harvard
Uni drop out ... he's given away $30 billion to his Gates
Foundation), |
$56.0
billion |
Microsoft |
USA
|
55yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Warren Buffett (America's
most beloved investor ... married
longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ...
will donate $31 billion to charity!) |
$50.0
billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
USA |
80yo
-
Widowed, re-married, 3 children |
| 4.
Bernard
Arnault (up
$13.5 billion from last year! ... richest European ... skilled
pianist) |
$41
billion |
LVMH
(world's
largest luxury goods empire) |
France |
62yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 5.
Lawrence Ellison (up
$11.5 billion this year! ... 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.) |
$39.5
billion |
Oracle (purchased
75 companies over the years worth $40 billion) |
USA |
66yo
-
Divorced, 2 children |
| 6.
Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's
richest resident) |
$31.1
billion |
Mittal
Steel (world's largest steelmaker) |
India |
60yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Amancio Ortega
(high school drop out ... shuns neckties) |
$31.0
billion |
Zara
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 77 countries) |
Spain |
74yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Eike
Batista (college
dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ...
his father was former mining minister of Brazil) |
$30.0
billion |
mining,
oil |
Brazil |
54yo
-
Divorced, 2 children (formerly married
to Playboy cover girl) |
| 9.
Mukesh Ambani (Asia's
richest resident ... built a 27-story home in Mumbai.) |
$27.0
billion |
petrochemicals |
India |
53yo
- Married, 3 children |
10.
Li
Ka-shing (high
school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has
given out $1.56 billion to education and medical research) |
$26.0
billion |
diversified
(world's largest operator of container terminals, world's
largest health and beauty retailer) |
Hong
Kong |
82yo
-
Widowed, 2 children
|
The World
(women)
TOP
10 - World's Richest Women ...
(9
March 2011) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Christy
Walton & family (widow
of John Walton - son
of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who
died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) |
$26.5
billion |
Wal-Mart
(world's
largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and
1.9 million employees) |
USA |
56yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Liliane
Bettencourt (2009
world's richest woman ... in Dec 2010 she reconciled with
her daughter who was taking her to court for giving $1.4 billion
to a well-known photographer) |
$23.5
billion |
L'Oreal
(daughter of L'Oréal founder
Eugene Schueller) |
France |
88yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband,
Andre Bettencourt - thought to have wartime ties with the
Nazis - died Nov 2007 at age 88) |
| 3.
Alice
Walton (daughter
of retail pioneer Sam Walton) |
$21.2
billion |
Wal-Mart
(world's
largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and
1.9 million employees) |
USA |
61yo
- Divorced |
| 4.
Iris Fontbona
& family (up
$8.2 billion from last year! ... second wife of billionaire
Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005) |
$19.2
billion |
mining/lumber |
Chile |
na
-
Widowed, 3 children |
| 5.
Susanne
Klatten (won
a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, the ex-lover who tried to
blackmail her for millions. Sgarbi is now in jail.) |
$14.6
billion |
BMW,
pharmaceuticals (inherited
stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) |
Germany |
48yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Birgit
Rausing & family (husband
Gad Rausing - brother of Hans Rausing - died in 2000 ... family
keeps low profile due to kidnapping attempt on son, Jorn,
in 1989) |
$14.0
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging manufacture) |
Sweden |
87yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 7.
Anne
Cox Chambers |
$13.4
billion |
media/entertainment
- Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers,
15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) |
USA
|
91yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 8.
Savitri Jindal (husband,
Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) |
$13.2
billion |
inherited
(steel) |
India |
60yo
- Widowed, 9 children |
| 9.
Abigail
Johnson |
$11.3
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
USA |
49yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Jacqueline
Mars (third
generation inherited company when dad died in 1999) |
$10.0
billion |
candy,
pet food (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. |
USA |
71yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
Helen Walton -
widow of Sam Walton
(d.1992) - died 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
28 May 2007 at
age 83. Was the
world's 6th richest woman worth $12.6 billion.
Richest
Billionaire in 55 Countries
Richest
Billionaire in each Country...
(9
March 2011) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Citizenship |
Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Argentina |
Carlos
and Alejandro Bulgheroni |
$5.1
billion |
oil,
gas (Bridas) |
Argentina |
na
-
|
| 2.
Australia |
Georgina
Rinehart (battled
for 14 years to win control of her father's assets from her
stepmother) |
$9.0
billion |
mining
|
Australia |
57yo
- Widowed, 4 children |
| 3.
Austria |
Dietrich
Mateschitz |
$5.0
billion |
Red
Bull (banned because of its contents
in Iceland and Uruguay) |
Austria |
66yo
-
Single, 1 child |
| 4.
Belgium |
Patokh
Chodiev (Uzbekistan
native) |
$3.7
billion |
mining,
metals |
Kazakhstan |
58yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Belize |
Huang
Maoru & family (operates
one of China's largest department store chains ... brother
of Huang Shih Tsai (Taiwan)) |
$1.8
billion |
retail
(Maoye has 37 department stores in
16 Chinese cities) |
China |
45yo
-
Married |
| 6.
Brazil |
Eike
Batista (college dropout
... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father
was former mining minister of Brazil) |
$30.0
billion |
iron-ore
mining |
Brazil |
54yo
- Divorced, 2 children (formerly married
to Playboy cover girl) |
| 7.
Canada |
David
Thomson & family (father,
Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006) |
$23.0
billion |
inherited
(media) |
Canada |
53yo
-
Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly
Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., April 2008 when
she gave birth to a daughter) |
| 8.
Chile |
Iris
Fontbona
& family (up
$8.2 billion from last year! ... second wife of billionaire
Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005) |
$19.2
billion |
mining/lumber |
Chile |
na
-
Widowed, 3 children |
| 9.
China |
Robin
Li (wealth
estimate includes shares held by wife, Melissa Ma) |
$9.4
billion |
Internet |
China |
42yo
- Married |
| 10.
Colombia |
Luis Carlos Sarmiento (in
association with Grameen Bank, will begin extending credit
to micro-entrepreneurs) |
$10.5
billion |
banking |
Colombia |
78yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 11.
Cyprus |
John
Fredriksen (born
in Norway ... world's leading oil tanker tycoon ... runs empire
from 30,000 square foot manse in London's Chelsea) |
$10.7
billion |
shipping |
UK |
66yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
| 12.
Czech Republic |
Petr
Kellner
(in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small
office-supplies business to start an investment fund) |
$9.2
billion |
insurance |
Czech
Republic |
46yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 13.
Denmark |
Kjeld
Kirk Kristiansen (grandson
of the founder of Danish toymaker Lego; sole owner) |
$4.7
billion |
Lego
(world's fourth-largest toymaker by
sales) |
Denmark |
63yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 14.
Egypt |
Nassef
Sawiris(youngest
son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire,
Onsi Sawiris) |
$5.6
billion |
construction |
Egypt |
50yo
-
na |
| 15.
Finland |
Antti
Herlin |
$1.9
billion |
elevators,
escalators |
Finland |
54yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 16.
France |
Bernard
Arnault (up
$13.5 billion from last year! ... richest European ... skilled
pianist) |
$41
billion |
LVMH
(world's
largest luxury goods empire)
|
France |
62yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 17.
Germany |
Karl
Albrecht (fiercely
private ... raises orchids and plays golf) |
$25.5
billion |
supermarkets
(over
8,000 Aldi stores) |
Germany |
91yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 18.
Greece |
Spiro
Latsis & family |
$4.8
billion |
banking,
shipping, diversified |
Switzerland |
64yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 19.
Hong Kong |
Li
Ka-shing (high
school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has given
out $1.56 billion to education and medical research) |
$26.0
billion |
diversified
(world's largest operator of container terminals, world's
largest health and beauty retailer) |
Hong
Kong |
82yo
-
Widowed, 2 children
|
| 20.
India |
Lakshmi
Mittal (Europe's
richest resident) |
$31.1
billion |
Mittal
Steel (world's largest steelmaker) |
UK |
60yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 21.
Indonesia |
Michael
Hartono (brother
of R. Budi Hartono) |
$5.0
billion |
tobacco |
Indonesia |
71yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| |
R.
Budi Hartono (brother
of Michael Hartono) |
$5.0
billion |
tobacco |
Indonesia |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 22.
Ireland |
Pallonji
Mistry (rarely
ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years
but maintains a residence in Mumbai) |
$8.8
billion |
construction
(businesses are located in India) |
India |
81yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 23.
Israel |
Sir
Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born
Israeli ... famously press-shy ... in
May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame Ginoux"
... awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth for
his services to U.K. maritime heritage) |
$10.3
billion |
diversified
(shipping, banking, real estate) |
Monaco |
89yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 24.
Italy |
Michele
Ferrero & family (real
life Willie Wonka is one of Europe's richest and most secretive
tycoons) |
$18.0
billion |
Ferrero
chocolates
(also Nutella and Tic Tac ... 18 factories,
more than 21,000 employees worldwide) |
Monaco |
84yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 25.
Japan |
Masayoshi
Son |
$8.1
billion |
Softbank |
Japan
|
53yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 26.
Kazakhstan |
Vladmir
Kim (former
member of Kazakh President Nazarbayev's political council) |
$4.7
billion |
mining |
Kazakhstan
|
50yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 27.
Kuwait |
Nasser
Al-Kharafi & family (has
exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like
Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy) |
$10.4
billion |
construction
|
Kuwait
|
67yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 28.
Lebanon |
Najib
Mikati (former
Lebanese Prime Minister - briefly in 2005) |
$2.8
billion |
telecom |
Lebanon
|
55yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| |
Taha
Mikati (brother of
Najib Mikati) |
$2.8
billion |
telecom |
Lebanon
|
62yo
-
Married |
| 29.
Malaysia |
Robert
Kuok
(once known as the Sugar King of Asia) |
$12.5
billion |
diversified
(shipping, real estate, media) |
Hong
Kong |
87yo
-
Married, 8 children |
| 30.
Mexico |
Carlos
Slim Helu & family (2010
and 2011 World's richest man ... $20.5
billion richer this year!
... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just
call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector) |
$74
billion |
telecom |
Mexico |
71yo
-
Widowed, 6 children |
| 31.
Monaco |
David
Nahmad & family (megadealers
of modern and impressionist art by the most well-known names,
from Monet and Matisse to Renoir and Rothko ... a skilled
backgammon player who bets hundreds of thousands on the game
in Monte Carlo, David holds the 1996 world title) |
$3.0
billion |
art
(among those holdings: 300 Picassos,
worth some $900 million ... the family buys and sells most
of their works at auction) |
Monaco |
63yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 32.
Netherlands |
Charlene
de Carvalho-Heineken (in
2002 Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer, Heineken, from her
late father, Freddy Heineken) |
$7.5
billion |
inherited
(Heineken) (over 170 premium brands
in more than 65 countries) |
UK |
56yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 33.
New Zealand |
Graeme
Hart (former
tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases
... owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses) |
$5.5
billion |
investments |
New
Zealand |
55yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 34.
Nigeria |
Aliko
Dangote (up
$11.7 billion since last year! ... closely linked to Nigeria's
former president Olusegun Obasanjo) |
$13.8
billion |
inherited
(sugar, flour, cement manufacturing) |
Nigeria
|
53
-
Married, 2 children |
| 35.
Norway |
Olav
Thon (owns
425 properties in Norway and 25 abroad) |
$4.0
billion |
real
estate (includes 61 shopping malls,
hotels(7,000 rooms) |
Norway
|
87yo
-
Married
|
| 36.
Philippines |
Henry
Sy & family (came
to the Philippines as a child from China) |
$5.8
billion |
malls
(Philippines largest shopping mall
developer with 39 malls) |
Philippines
|
86yo
-
Married, 6 children |
| 37.
Poland |
Jan
Kulczyk (owns
a yacht, travels in his own plane) |
$2.6
billion |
telecom,
oil, beer |
Poland
|
61yo
-
Divorced, 2 children |
| 38.
Portugal |
Americo
Amorim (King
of cork) |
$5.1
billion |
cork,
investments (world's largest producer
of cork) |
Portugal
|
76yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 39.
Romania |
Dinu
Patriciu (onetime
architect and former parliamentarian) |
$2.2
billion |
oil
& gas refineries |
Romania
|
60yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 40.
Russia |
Vladimir
Lisin (in
1992 he joined up with tough group of traders called Trans-World
Group; they came to dominate Russia's aluminum and steel exports) |
$24
billion |
Novolipetsk
steel mill |
Russia |
54yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 41.
Saudi Arabia |
Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew
of the Saudi king ... his palaces and real estate are worth
more than $3 billion ... owns jewellery collection valued
at $730 million, plus 4 airplanes, including an Airbus A380) |
$19.6
billion |
investments
(incl. Citicorp) |
Saudi
Arabia |
56yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 42.
Singapore |
Wee
Cho Yaw & family (educated
in China ... avid tennis player) |
$4.0
billion |
banking |
Singapore
|
82yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 43.
South Africa |
Nicky
Oppenheimer & family |
$7.0
billion |
De
Beers (diamond mining) |
South
Africa |
65yo
-
Married, 1 child |
| 44.
South Korea |
Lee Kun-Hee (paid
$130 million in overdue taxes in 2008 after allegations of
tax evasion, but got a presidential pardon later that year
... father of Jay
Y. Lee) |
$8.6
billion |
Samsung
(second largest mobile phone manufacturer
after Nokia) |
South
Korea |
69yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 45.
Spain |
Amancio
Ortega
(High School drop out ... shuns neckties) |
$31.0
billion |
Zara
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 77 countries) |
Spain |
74yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 46.
Sweden |
Stefan
Persson (acquired
the village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England in 2009) |
$24.5
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (retail) (affordable
fashion collections in 2,200 stores in over 32 countries) |
Sweden |
63yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 47.
Switzerland |
Ernesto
Bertarelli & family (inherited
the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman
who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007) |
$10.0
billion |
inherited
(Sereno Biotech) |
Switzerland |
45yo
-
Married (to British beauty queen/singer
... released her debut album 'Elusive' in early 2010),
3 children |
| 48.
Taiwan |
Cher
Wang & Wenchi Chen (daughter
of the late Taiwan billionaire Y.C. Wang) |
$6.8
billion |
electronics |
Taiwan
|
53yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 49.
Thailand |
Dhanin
Chearavanont & family (philanthropist
restores Buddhist temples in Thailand, sponsors schools and
orphanages) |
$6.5
billion (wealth of his three brothers
has been added to Dhanin's total worth) |
diversified |
Thailand
|
71yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 50.
Turkey |
Mehmet
Emin Karamehmet (sentenced
in Feb, 2010, to 11 years and 8 months jail and fined $300
million dollars for embezzlement ... not in custody yet and
has the right to appeal) |
$4.0
billion |
Turkcell
mobile phone company |
Turkey |
66yo
-
Married, 1 child |
| 51.
Ukraine |
Rinat
Akhmetov (son
of a coal miner, made his first million trading coal and coke
... serves as parliamentary member representing Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovych's party) |
$16.0
billion |
steel,
coal mines |
Ukraine
|
44yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 52.
United Arab Emirates |
Abdul
Aziz Al Ghurair & family (paragliding
enthusiast ) |
$2.7
billion |
banking |
United
Arab Emirates |
56yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 53.
United Kingdom |
Gerald
Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th
Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities) |
$13.0
billion |
real
estate (incl. Mayfair) |
UK |
59yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 54.
United States |
William
Gates III (was
world's richest person for 14 of the past 17 years ... Harvard
Uni drop out ... he's given away $30 billion to his Gates
Foundation), |
$56.0
billion |
Microsoft |
USA |
55yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 55.
Venezuela |
Gustavo
Cisneros & family (Cisneros
and his wife are familiar figures in high society, hobnobbing
with former presidents like George H. W. Bush, designers and
fellow billionaires) |
$4.2
billion |
inherited
(media) |
Venezuela
|
65yo
- Married, 3 children |
Anacleto
Angelini, Chile's
(and South America's) richest man, died 28 August 2007, age 93.
He was worth $6.0 billion.
Ng
Teng Fong, Singapore's richest man, died
Feb 2, 2010, age 82. He was worth $5.5 billion.
Australia
TOP
10 - Australian Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth
|
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Georgina Rinehart
(battled for 14 years to win control
of her father's assets from her stepmother) |
$9.0
billion |
mining |
Perth |
57yo
- Widowed, 4 children |
| 2.
Andrew Forrest (nicknamed
Twiggy ... onetime stockbroker and keen amateur boxer ...
a descendant of the first premier of the state of West Australia,
Lord Forrest of Bunbury) |
$6.7
billion |
mining,
metals
|
Perth |
49yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) |
$4.4
billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) (biggest
shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia,
New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) |
Sydney |
80yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
James Packer
(father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) |
$4.4
billion |
inherited
(media/Entertainment) |
Sydney |
43yo
-Married (to model turned singer/songwriter
Erica Baxter),
2 children |
| 5.
Harry Triguboff (born in China
to Russian parents ) |
$3.4
billion |
residential
property development (biggest builder
of apartments in Australia ... owns and manages 4,000 apartments) |
Sydney |
78yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
John Gandel (medical doctor
) |
$3.4
billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) (owns 50%
of Chadstone mall in Melbourne, the biggest in the southern
hemisphere) |
Melbourne |
76yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
Kerr Neilson (South
African-born ... bought his first stock at age 13) |
$2.4
billion |
investments |
Sydney |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Kerry Stokes (started
out installing television aerials on suburban homes as a teenager) |
$2.0
billion |
media,
Caterpillar (owns Channel 7 TV station) |
Perth |
70yo
- Divorced, 4 children |
| 8.
David Hains (active
horse breeder and racer) |
$2.0
billion |
finance |
Melbourne |
80yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 10.
Lindsay Fox (dropped
out of school at 16 ... avid car enthusiast ... owns 130 rare
classic cars ... his business card still reads "Truck
Driver.") |
$1.7
billion |
logistics
(Linfox has a truck fleet of 5,000 ...
20 million square feet of warehousing, 2 airports and 1,000
armoured vehicles to transport cash) |
Melbourne |
73yo
- Married, 5 children |
Kerry
Packer, Australia's long-time richest person, died
26 Dec 2005, age 68 ...
he was worth $5.0 billion.
Richard
Pratt, died 29 April, 2009, age 75,
from prostate cancer ... he was worth $1.5 billion.
Brazil
TOP
11 - Brazilian
Billionaires
... (9
March 2011) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Eike Batista (college
dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer
... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) |
$30.0
billion |
iron-ore
mining |
Rio
de Janeiro |
54yo
- Divorced, 2 children (formerly
married to Playboy cover girl) |
| 2.
Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime
tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) |
$13.3
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
71yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 3.
Joseph Safra (cut financial
ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. ) |
$11.4 billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Marcel Herman Telles (keen
spearfisherman) |
$6.2
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Dorothea Steinbruch &
family (sister-in-law
of billionaire,
Eliezer Steinbruch,
who died in 2008) |
$5.8
billion |
inherited
(steel) |
Sao
Paulo |
na
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 6.
Carlos Alberto Sicupira |
$5.5
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
63yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family |
$5.3
billion |
diversified |
Sao
Paulo |
82yo
-
na, 9 children |
| 8.
Aloysio de Andrade Faria (owns
150 pure-bred horses ... trained as a doctor) |
$4.3
billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
90yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 9.
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) |
$3.4
billion |
inherited
(retail) |
Sao
Paulo |
74yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 10.
Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela
(sister
of Alfredo Egydio Arrudo Villela Filho) |
$3.2
billion |
inherited
(banking) |
Sao
Paulo |
37yo
- Married |
| 10.
Alfredo Egydio Arrudo Villela Filho (brother
of Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela) |
$3.2
billion |
inherited
(banking) |
Sao
Paulo |
41yo
-
Married |
Canada
TOP
12 - Canadian
Billionaires
... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ...
compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
David Thomson & family (father,
Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006) |
$23.0
billion |
inherited
(media) |
Toronto |
53yo
-
Divorced, 3 children (split from
Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show "The O.C.",
April 2009 when she gave birth to a daughter) |
| 2.
Galen Weston & family (plays
polo with Prince Charles ... Avid collector of avant-garde
artist Christo) |
$7.1
billion |
retail
(owns controlling stake in Canada's
largest supermarket chain) |
Toronto |
70yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Jim Pattison (owns
massive Palm Springs lair that once belonged to Frank
Sinatra) |
$5.8
billion |
diversified
(incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not and Guinness World Records) |
Vancouver |
82yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Paul Desmarais (bought
his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in
1951 ... family is friends with French President Nicolas
Sarkozy) |
$4.5
billion |
finance |
Montreal |
84yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
James & Arthur Irving
(their brother and business partner John died at 78 in
July 2010) |
$3.5
billion |
oil,
gas (own
600 gas stations) |
Saint
John |
n/a
- n/a |
| 6.
Emanuele (Lino) Saputo (high
school graduate ... born in Sicily, started Saputo in
Montreal in 1954 with parents. Delivered mozzarella by
bicycle in the early days) |
$3.4
billion |
inherited
(dairy) |
Quebec |
74yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Jeffrey Skoll (now
funnels his money, energy into making films for social
change through Participant Media and supporting social
entrepreneurs through his philanthropic Skoll Foundation) |
$3.2
billion |
Ebay |
USA,
LA |
46yo
- Single |
| 8.
David Azrieli & family (Polish-born) |
$3.1
billion |
shopping
malls |
Montreal |
88yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
Bernard (Barry) Sherman (locked
in court fight with relatives who allege they are owed
part of the fortune) |
$2.9
billion |
Apotex
pharmaceuticals (seeking
over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after"
pill ) |
Toronto |
69yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Guy Laliberte (accordian-playing
fire-breather formed Cirque du Soleil in 1984 with a gang
of street performing friends ... in 2009 became the first
clown in space when he blasted into orbit after 6 months
training in Russia) |
$2.5
billion |
Cirque
du Soleil |
Montreal |
51yo
- Divorced, 5 children |
| 10.
Robert Miller (supports
Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which promotes cryonics,
the science of freezing bodies with the intent to restore
life when technology becomes available) |
$2.5
billion |
electronics
(Future Electronics is the world's
3rd largest electronics distributor) |
Montreal |
65yo
- Divorced, 2 children (currently
sitting in the middle of a messy divorce with wife, Margaret
Antonier) |
| 10.
Clayton Riddell |
$2.5
billion |
oil
& gas |
Calgary |
73yo
- Married,
4 children |
Kenneth Thomson, Canada's richest man, died June
2006, age 82. He was worth $19.6 billion.
John Irving, died July 2010, age 78.
At the time, he and his brothers, James and Arthur, were worth
$4.0 billion.
TOP
10 - Chinese
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Robin Li (wealth
estimate includes shares held by wife, Melissa Ma) |
$9.4
billion |
Baidu
(China's online search leader) |
Beijing |
42yo
- Married |
| 2.
Liang Wengen |
$8.0
billion |
Sany
Heavy Industry (makers of construction equipment) (Sany
Group, employs 53,000 people around the world) |
Changsha |
54yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 3.
Zong Qinghou |
$5.9
billion |
beverages
(Wahaha) |
Hangzhou |
65yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 4.
Li Li & family |
$5.7
billion |
pharmaceuticals |
Shenzhen |
47yo
- Married |
| 5.
He Xiangjian |
$5.5
billion |
appliances
(Midea) |
Foshan |
68yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Wu Yajun & family (richest
self-made woman in the world) |
$5.5
billion |
real
estate |
Chongqing |
47yo
- Married |
| 7.
Hui Ka Yan (briefly
China's richest man in 2009 ... shares wealth with wife) |
$5.1
billion |
real
estate (has more than 18,000 employees
and projects (mostly residential) in 60 Chinese cities) |
Guangzhou |
52yo
- Married |
| 8.
Ma Huateng |
$5.0
billion |
Internet
(cofounded Tencent in 1999 - it's
powerful "QQ" chat has over 500 million regular
users) |
Shenzhen |
39yo
- Married |
| 8.
Zhang Jindong |
$5.0
billion |
Suning
Appliances
(China's largest electrical appliance chain - had 600
retail stores and planned to open another 400 by 2010) |
Nanjing
|
47yo
- Married |
| 10.
Wang Jianlin |
$4.6
billion |
real
estate (in a flurry of openings
in the month of December, 2010, alone, Wanda opened five
"Wanda Plazas" in different cities, plus two
hotels on picturesque Hainan Island) |
Dalian |
56yo
- Married, 1 child |
TOP
8 - Egyptian
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Nassef
Sawiris (youngest
son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire,
Onsi Sawiris) |
$5.6
billion |
inherited
(construction) |
Cairo |
50yo
- n/a |
| 2.
Naguib Sawiris (eldest
son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire,
Onsi Sawiris) |
$3.5
billion |
inherited
(telecom) |
Cairo |
56yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 3.
Onsi Sawiris (Onsi's
three sons Naguib, Samih and Nassef run separate Orascom
telecom, hotels and construction divisions) |
$2.9
billion |
construction |
Cairo |
81yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 4.
Mohamed Mansour (the
3 Mansour brothers are the biggest sellers of GM vehicles
worldwide ... Mohammed was the country's Minister of Transportation
from 2005 until 2009) |
$2.0
billion |
diversified,
cotton trading |
Cairo |
63yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 5.
Yasseen Mansour (the
3 Mansour brothers are the biggest sellers of GM vehicles
worldwide) |
$1.8
billion |
diversified |
Cairo |
49yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 5.
Youssef Mansour (the
3 Mansour brothers are the biggest sellers of GM vehicles
worldwide ... with wife, enjoys collecting Louis XIV furniture
and Renaissance paintings.) |
$1.8
billion |
diversified |
Cairo |
65yo
- Married,
5 children |
| 7.
Samih Sawiris (middle
son of Orascom founder and billionaire Onsi Sawiris) |
$1.4
billion |
inherited
(hotels) |
Cairo |
54yo
- Married |
| 8.
Mohamed Al Fayed & family (flamboyant
Egyptian businessman, father of Dodi Al Fayed who died
in a car crash along with Princess Diana in Paris in August
1997 ... a natural born salesman, began flogging homemade
lemonade to his classmates during recess) |
$1.2
billion |
retail |
UK,
London? |
78yo
- Married,
5 children |
France
| |
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... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Bernard Arnault
(up
$13.5 billion from last year! ... richest European ... skilled
pianist) |
$41
billion |
LVMH
(world's
largest luxury goods empire)
|
Paris |
62yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 2.
Liliane
Bettencourt (2009
world's richest woman ... in Dec 2010 she reconciled with
her daughter who was taking her to court for giving $1.4
billion to a well-known photographer)
|
$23.5
billion |
L'Oreal
(daughter of L'Oréal founder
Eugene Schueller) |
Paris |
88yo
- Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre
Bettencourt - thought to have wartime ties with the Nazis
- died Nov 2007 at age 88) |
3.
Francois Pinault & familly (high
school drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur
in 2009 ... son, Francois-Henri, married actress Salma Hayek
on Valentine's Day 2009)
|
$11.5
billion |
retail
(incl. Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Puma) ... art lover
also owns auction house Christie's (his
personal art collection, worth an estimated $1.7 billion,
encompasses 2,000-plus works by over 80 artists including
Pablo Picasso) |
Paris |
74yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Serge Dassault & family (French
senator) |
$9.3
billion |
aviation
(makers of Mirage and Rafale jets) |
Paris |
85yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 5.
Jean-Claude Decaux & family (started
out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters) |
$6.0
billion |
advertising
(largest
outdoor advertising company in the world ... places ads
in 55 countries)
|
Paris |
73yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (extremely
discreet, press-shy brothers) |
$6.0
billion |
inherited
(Chanel) (apparel, perfume) (Chanel
No. 5 perfume is one of the world's top selling scents) |
USA,
New York; Switzerland, Cologny |
n/a
- Married / Married |
| 7.
Alain Merieux & family |
$4.3
billion |
biotech
(specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body
and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis) |
Lyon |
73yo
- Married, 3 children (eldest son
killed in plane crash in 1996, age 27. 2nd- eldest son
died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 39) |
| 8.
Xavier Niel (in
1984, while still in high school, he established Minitel,
France's forerunner to the internet. He launched the country's
first internet provider, WorldNet, in 1993 and sold it for
$50 million just before the internet bubble burst) |
$3.7
billion |
internet,
telecom |
Paris |
43yo
- Single, 2 children |
| 9.
Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers
... Martin is a close confident of French President Nicolas
Sarkozy and godfather of the president's son ... was awarded
the Legion d'honneur in July 2010) |
$3.6
billion |
telecom,
media, construction |
Paris |
58/60yo
-n/a
|
| 10.
Pierre Bellon & family (penned
autobiography, "I've Had a Great Time") |
$2.9
billion |
inherited
(food services) |
Paris |
81yo
- Married,
4 children |
Germany
| |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Karl Albrecht (fiercely
private ... raises orchids and plays golf) |
$25.5
billion |
supermarkets
(over
8,000 Aldi stores) |
Muehlheim
an der Ruhr |
91yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Michael Otto & family (practices
tai chi ... collects modern art) |
$16.6
billion |
retail
(world's largest mail-order company
... now world's second biggest internet retailer after Amazon) |
Hamburg |
67yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Susanne
Klatten (sister
of Stefan Quandt ... won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi,
the ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions. Sgarbi
is now in jail.) |
$14.6
billion |
BMW,
pharmaceuticals (Inherited
stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) |
Bad
Homburg |
48yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht & family (brothers
inherited leading discount supermarket chain Aldi Nord when
their father, Theo Albrecht, died in July 2010 at age 88) |
$14.4
billion |
Aldi,
Trader Joes |
n/a |
n/a
- |
| 5.
Stefan Quandt (brother
of Susanne Klatten) |
$10.7
billion |
BMW |
Frankfurt |
44yo
- Married,
1child |
| 6.
Klaus-Michael Kuhne |
$10.0
billion |
shipping |
Switzerland,
Schindellegi |
73yo
- Married |
| 7.
Johanna Quandt (3rd
wife of Herbert Quandt) |
$9.8
billion |
BMW |
Bad
Homburg |
84yo
- Widowed,
2 children |
| 7.
Maria-Elisabeth & Georg
Schaeffler (mother
and son) |
$9.8
billion |
ball
bearings |
Herzogenaurach |
n/a
- |
| 9.
August von Finck |
$7.3
billion |
investments |
Switzerland,
Thurgau |
81yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Hasso Plattner (Germany's
largest philanthropist ... sports enthusiast sails his Morning
Glory yacht competitively; skis, snowboards, plays golf
and tennis) |
$5.0
billion |
SAP
(software) |
Heidelberg |
67yo
- Married,
2 children |
Adolf Merckle,
74, committed suicide 6 January 2009. He was
5th richest in Germany (valued at $9.2 billion) in 2008.
Theo
Albrecht,
88, died 24 July 2010. He was 3rd richest in
Germany (valued at $16.7 billion) in 2010.
Hong
Kong
TOP
10 - Hong Kong
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
1.
Li
Ka-shing (high
school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has
given out $1.56 billion to education and medical research) |
$26.0
billion |
diversified
(world's largest operator of container terminals, world's
largest health and beauty retailer) |
Hong
Kong |
82yo
-
Widowed, 2 children
|
| 2.
Kwok Thomas
& Raymond & family (deeply
religious brothers, opened replica of Noah's Ark in Hong Kong
in May 2009 ... (clan
restructured its trusts to eliminate eldest brother Walter
Kwok as a beneficiary, shifting his shares to his children) |
$20.0
billion |
inherited
(real estate) (Sun Hung Kai Properties)
|
Hong
Kong |
n/a
-
n/a |
| 3.
Lee Shau Kee (nicknamed
"Asia's Warren Buffett" ) |
$19.0
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
83yo
-
Divorced, 5 children
|
| 4.
Cheng Yu-tung |
$9.0
billion |
New
World Development (real estate) |
Hong
Kong |
85yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Joseph Lau (socialite
... art collector, paid $39 million for Paul Gaugin's Te Poipoi
... Spent $9.5 million for a 7.03-carat blue diamond ... one
of largest collectors of red wine, with at least 10,000 bottles) |
$6.3
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
59yo
- Divorced, 5 children |
| 6.
Sir Michael Kadoorie & family (Kadoorie
is the scion of a family of Iraqi Jews who made an early fortune
in Shanghai a century ago and later settled in Hong Kong ...
was knighted in the U.K. for his extensive charitable and
philanthropic activities.) |
$6.1
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Zhang Zhirong (his
first real estate development project was Sunshine Greenland
in Shanghai in 1996) |
$5.4
billion |
shipbuilding |
Hong
Kong |
42yo
-
Married |
| 8.
Peter Woo & family (inherited
fortune from father-in-law, Sir Y.K.Pao) |
$5.1
billion |
real
estate (recently finished building one
of Shanghai's tallest office structures, located in the city's
pricey Jing'An district) |
Hong
Kong |
65yo
- Married |
| 9.
William Fung |
$4.4
billion |
apparel |
Hong
Kong |
63yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Chee Chen Tung & family |
$4.2
billion |
transportation
(has 280 offices in 55 countries) |
Hong
Kong |
69yo
- Married,
2 children |
Nina
Wang,
widow of husband
kidnapped in 1990, died 5 April 2007, age
69. She was worth $4.2 billion.
India
| |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Lakshmi Mittal
(Europe's
richest resident) |
$31.1
billion |
Mittal
Steel (world's largest steelmaker) |
UK,
London |
60yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Mukesh Ambani
(Asia's richest
resident and older
brother of Anil Ambani ...
built a 27-story home in Mumbai.) |
$27.0
billion |
petrochemicals,
oil, gas |
Mumbai |
53yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Azim Premji |
$16.8
billion |
Wipro
(software) |
Bangalore |
65yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Shashi & Ravi Ruia (brothers) |
$15.8
billion |
diversified |
Mumbai |
67yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Savitri Jindal (husband,
Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) |
$13.2
billion |
inherited
(steel) |
New
Delhi & Hisar |
60yo
- Widowed, 9 children |
| 6.
Gautam Adani |
$10.0
billion |
commodities,
infrastructure |
Ahmedabad |
48yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 7.
Kumar Birla |
$9.2
billion |
commodities (cement,
copper & aluminium) |
Mumbai |
43yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Anil Ambani (marathon
runner ... younger
brother of Mukesh Ambani.) |
$8.8
billion |
diversified |
Mumbai |
51yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Sunil Mittal & family(son
of a politician) |
$8.3
billion |
Telecom (has
60 million customers) |
New
Delhi |
53yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Adi Godrej & family |
$7.3
billion |
diversified |
Mumbai |
68yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 10.
Kushal Pal Singh (in
2008 was 10th richest in the world and world's richest
real estate baron ... lost $25.0 billion later that year) |
$7.3
billion |
real
estate |
New
Delhi |
79yo
- Married, 3 children |
TOP
10 - Indonesian
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Michael Hartono (brother
of R. Budi Hartono) |
$5.0
billion |
tobacco,
banking |
Kudus |
71yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 1.
R. Budi Hartono (brother
of Michael Hartono) |
$5.0
billion |
tobacco,
banking |
Kudus |
70yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 3.
Low Tuck Kwong (born
in Singapore ... animal lover has a zoo in Borneo with
dozens of animals including gibbons, sun bears, peacocks
and orangutans.) |
$3.6
billion |
coal |
Indonesia? |
62yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 4.
Martua Sitorus (former
economics student traded shrimp as a teenager, then
switched to palm oil ... bought his first plantation
in 1994) |
$2.7
billion |
palm
oil |
Singapore |
51yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 5.
Peter Sondakh |
$2.4
billion |
investments |
Surabaya |
59yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 6.
Sri Prakash Lohia (one
of three billionaire brothers - with Aloke, Om Prakash
- whose fortune spans India, Thailand and Indonesia
... his wife's brother is Indian steel billionaire,
Lakshmi Mittal) |
$2.1
billion |
polyester |
UK,
London |
58yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 7.
Kiki Barki (visits
China often) |
$2.0
billion |
coal |
Indonesia? |
71yo
- Married |
| 8.
Sukanto Tanoto (eldest
of 7 boys dropped out of school at age 17 to help support
his family ... taught himself English by translating
Readers' Digest, Life and Newsweek) |
$1.9
billion |
diversified |
Singapore |
61yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 9.
Edwin Soeryadjaya (US-educated
son of a former billionaire who founded automotive group
Astra but eventually lost control and much of his wealth
... he began working to restore family's fortune in
1998) |
$1.6
billion |
coal |
Indonesia? |
62yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 10.
Garibaldi Thohir |
$1.5
billion |
coal |
Indonesia? |
45yo
- Married,
3 children |
Israel
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| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Sir Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born
Israeli ... famously press-shy ... In
May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame
Ginoux"
... awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth
for his services to U.K. maritime heritage) |
$6.5
billion |
diversified
(shipping, banking, real estate) |
Monaco,
Monte Carlo
|
89yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Beny Steinmetz |
$2.0
billion |
diamonds
(largest customer of De Beers) |
Netanya |
54yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Shari
Arison (eccentric
heiress published book outlining philosophy of connecting
business with spirituality) |
$3.4
billion |
inherited
(banking, housing & construction) |
Tel
Aviv |
53yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Arnon Milchan (former
soccer player ... has extensive art collection) |
$3.6
billion |
New
Regency Productions (include
Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses, Fight Club and Mr.
and Mrs. Smith) |
Tel
Aviv |
66yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Stef Wertheimer & family (high
school dropout) |
$3.5
billion |
tools
|
Tefen |
85yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Alexander Machkevich (native
of Kyrgyzstan ... has been very active in Jewish causes) |
$3.3
billion |
mining,
metals |
Kazakhstan,
Almaty |
57yo - Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Yitzhak Tshuva (his
Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where
his penniless family of 11 lived briefly) |
$2.1
billion |
real
estate (also operates 232 gas stations
in Israel) |
Netanya |
62yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Gil Shwed (in
spare time, avid photographer and passionate about cooking) |
$1.6
billion |
software |
Tel
Aviv |
43yo
- Single |
| 9.
Lev Leviev (born
in Uzbekistan ... Leviev's new home is the $65 million
Palladio, a seven-bedroom bulletproof estate replete with
in-house nightclub and gold-plated indoor pool—the
most expensive new home in Britain) |
$1.5
billion |
diamonds
(cuts
and polishes more diamonds than anyone else in the world) |
UK,
London |
55yo
- Married, 9 children |
| 10.
Michael Federmann & family |
$1.4
billion |
defense,
hotels |
Tel
Aviv |
67yo
- Married, 3 children |
Italy
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11 - Italian
Billionaires ...
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| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Michele Ferrero & family (real
life Willie Wonka is one of Europe's richest and most secretive
tycoons) |
$18.0
billion |
Ferrero
chocolates
(also Nutella and Tic Tac ... 18
factories, more than 21,000 employees worldwide) |
Monaco,
Monte Carlo |
84yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent
to an orphanage at age 7) |
$11
billion |
eyewear
(Ray-Ban) (owns over 6,000 retail
stores) |
Milan |
75yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 3.
Silvio Berlusconi (became
Italy's Prime Minister for the 3rd time in 2008 ... started
out singing on cruise ships ... in Dec 2009 a man broke
his nose and teeth with a statue of Milan's cathedral ) |
$7.8
billion |
media |
North
of Milan |
74yo - Divorced, 5 children |
| 4.
Giorgio Armani (goes
to the gym for at least an hour a day ... received France's
Legion of Honor in summer 2008) |
$7.0
billion |
Armani
fashion / apparel |
Milan |
76yo
- Single |
| 5.
Carlo Benetton |
$2.4
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) |
Treviso |
67yo
- Single, 4 children |
| 5.
Gilberto Benetton |
$2.4
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)
|
Treviso |
69yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Giuliana Benetton |
$2.4
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) |
Treviso |
73yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Luciano Benetton |
$2.4
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) |
Treviso |
75yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
Mario Moretti Polegato (owns
two Lamborghinis, a Ferrari 360 Modena Spider, five Arabian
horses and six antique Moto Guzzi motorcycles.) |
$2.3
billion |
Geox
shoes (second largest casual shoe
maker in world) |
Crocetta
del Montello |
58yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 10.
Ennio Doris & family (good
buddies with billionaire Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi) |
$1.5
billion |
insurance |
Tombolo |
70yo
- Married, 2 children |
TOP
10 - Japanese
Billionaires
...
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... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Masayoshi Son |
$8.1
billion |
Softbank
(software) |
Tokyo |
53yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Tadashi
Yanai & family |
$7.6
billion |
retail
(his
discount clothing chain, Fast Retailing, keeps prices
low by outsourcing production to China, Vietnam, Cambodia
and Bangladesh ... sticking to plan of opening approximately
300 stores a year to gain on larger competitors)
|
Tokyo
|
62yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Akira Mori & family |
$6.8
billion |
Mori
Trust (real estate) |
Tokyo |
74yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Kunio Busujima & family |
$5.9
billion |
pinball
machines (manufacturing) |
Gunma |
85yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Hiroshi Mikitani |
$5.6
billion |
e-commerce
(Rakuten, Internet shopping mall,
hosts more than 30,000 virtual stores selling 40,000 products) |
Tokyo |
46yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 6.
Hiroshi Yamauchi |
$4.6
billion |
Nintendo |
Kyoto |
83yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Takemitsu Takizaki |
$3.8
billion |
sensors
(manufacturing) |
Osaka |
65yo
- Married |
| 8.
Eitaro Itoyama (circumnavigated
the world 3 times in a 150-foot-yacht) |
$3.0
billion |
golf
courses |
Tokyo |
68yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Katsumi Tada |
$2.9
billion |
real
estate |
Tokyo |
65yo
- Married |
| 10.
Masahiro Miki (former
amateur boxer) |
$2.7
billion |
retail
(ABC Mart), (discount shoe retailer,
opens an average of 50 new stores a year) |
Tokyo |
55yo
- Married |
Taikichiro
Mori (d. 1993, age 88) was the
World's Richest Person from 1991-1992. When he died he was worth
$13 billion.
TOP
9 - Malaysian
Billionaires
...
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... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Robert Kuok
(once known as the Sugar King of Asia) |
$12.5
billion |
diversified
(shipping, real estate, media...) |
Hong
Kong |
87yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 2.
Ananda Krishnan (notable
philanthropist ... has son who is a monk and lives in
a forest) |
$9.5
billion |
telecom |
Kuala
Lumpur |
72yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Lee Shin Cheng (left
school at 11 to help support his family, selling ice
cream on a bicycle for 4 years before returning to finish
high school) |
$5.0
billion |
palm
oil (IOI Group is one of the biggest
property developers in Malaysia) |
Jeram |
72yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 4.
Quek Leng Chan |
$4.8
billion |
diversified
(incl. banking) |
Wee |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Teh Hong Piow |
$4.7
billion |
banking |
Kuala
Lumpur |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Yeoh Tiong Lay & family |
$2.7
billion |
diversified
(construction, utilities, hotels ...) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
81yo
- Married, 7 children |
| 7.
Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary |
$2.5
billion |
diversified
(rice, mining ...) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
59yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Vincent Tan (exercise
buff, loves scuba diving) |
$1.2
billion |
diversified
(hotels, lotteries, real estate, finance, fast food
franchises) (owns social networking
website Friendster.com and bought shares of Facebook
through his Internet company, MOL.com. Operates Wendy's,
Starbucks, Papa Johns Pizza, Kenny Rogers Roasters,
Krispy Kreme and Borders bookstores in Malaysia) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
na
- Married, 11 children |
| 8.
Tiong Hiew King (some
call him Asia's Rupert Murdoch) |
$1.2
billion |
timber,
palm oil, media |
Sibu |
76yo
- Married, 4 children |
Mexico
TOP
11 - Mexican
Billionaires
...
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... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Carlos Slim Helu
& family (2010
and 2011 World's richest man ... $20.5
billion richer this year!
... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just
call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector) |
$74.0
billion |
telecom |
Mexico
City |
71yo
-
Widowed, 6 children |
| 2.
German Larrea Mota-Velasco & family (press
shy ... never gives media interviews or holds press conferences) |
$16
billion |
mining |
Mexico
City |
57yo
- Married |
| 3.
Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family (has
a 300-foot-yacht) |
$11.9
billion |
mining
silver (one of the world's largest
silver miners) |
Mexico
City |
79yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family
(in
Sep 2006, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about
a business scandal) |
$8.2
billion |
retail,
media , financing |
Mexico
City |
55yo
- Married, 6 children (3 with first
wife, 3 with second wife ... including twins born Feb 2009) |
| 5.
Jeronimo Arango & family |
$4.0
billion |
supermarkets
(was a Wal-Mart partner) |
USA,
LA |
85yo
- n/a |
| 6.
Daniel Servitje Montull & family |
$3.5
billion |
inherited
(bakeries) (world's largest bread
maker) |
Mexico
City |
51yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Emilio Azcárraga Jean |
$2.3
billion |
media
(inherited empire in 1997) |
Mexico
City |
43yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 8.
Roberto Gonzalez Barrera & family |
$2.0
billion |
banking,
tortillas |
Monterrey |
79yo
- n/a |
| 9.
Roberto Hernandez Ramirez |
$1.2
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
68yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Alfredo Harp Helu & family (kidnapped
in 1994 for 3 months ... owns the Red Devils baseball team
... cousin of Carlos
Slim Helu) |
$1.0
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
67yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Joaquin Guzman Loera (Mexico's
most wanted man ... an illegal and violent criminal! ...
arrested in Mexico in 1993 and escaped 8 years later ...
US gov't is offering $5 million reward for information leading
to his capture) |
$1.0
billion |
drug
trafficking (the Sinaloa cartel is
one of the biggest suppliers of coccaine to the USA) |
Sinaloa
State |
56yo
- na |
Russia
TOP
10 - Russian
Billionaires ...
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by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
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... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Vladimir Lisin (in
1992 he joined up with tough group of traders called Trans-World
Group; they came to dominate Russia's aluminum and steel
exports) |
$24
billion |
Novolipetsk
steel mill |
Moscow |
54yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Alexei Mordashov
(up
$8.6 billion! ... son of mill worker parents became finance
director of a steel mill. When the plant's elderly general
director instructed him to buy up company shares so it
would not fall into the hands of an outsider, Mordashov
bought most of them himself) |
$18.5
billion |
Severstal
(steel) |
Moscow |
45yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 3.
Mikhail Prokhorov
(six-foot-eight bachelor and martial
arts buff ... often
featured in gossip pages for his parties
... bought
New Jersey Nets in 2009 ... awarded the French Legion
of Honor in recognition of his efforts at Franco-Russian
cultural exchange) |
$18.0
billion |
metals |
Moscow |
45yo
- Single |
| 4.
Vladmir Potanin (in
Jan 2010 announced he will transfer his fortune to charity
and not his children) |
$17.8
billion |
Norilsk
Nickel |
Moscow |
50yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 5.
Alisher Usmanov (up
$10.5 billion!) |
$17.7
billion |
steel,
telecom, stocks |
Moscow |
57yo
- Married |
| 6.
Oleg Deripaska
(married
into family of former President Yeltsin; in 2008 was 9th
richest in the world and richest in Russia, lost $24.5
billion later that year) |
$16.8
billion |
Russian
Aluminum (world's largest
aluminum producer) |
Moscow
|
43yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Mikhail Fridman
(strong
Kremlin connections) |
$15.1
billion |
oil,
banking, telecom |
Moscow |
46yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 8.
Vagit Alekperov (has
good relationship with Vladimir Putin) |
$13.9
billion |
Lukoil
(in December 2006 he acquired nearly
400 gas stations from ConocoPhillips) |
Moscow |
60yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Roman Abramovich
(Russia's
richest man 2005-2007 ... college drop out; orphaned as
a child ... owns U.K. soccer club, Chelsea ... took delivery
of the world's largest yacht this year, the 533-foot Eclipse,
reported to have cost over $250 million) |
$13.4
billion |
steel,
investments |
Moscow |
44yo
- Divorced, 6 children (last child
in 2009 with g'f) |
| 10.
Viktor Vekselberg
(owns collection of Faberge eggs) |
$13.0
billion |
oil,
metals |
Moscow |
53yo
- Married,
2 children |
TOP
8 - Saudi Arabian
Billionaires
...
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... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew
of the Saudi king ... his palaces and real estate are
worth more than $3 billion ... owns jewellery collection
valued at $730 million, plus 4 airplanes, including
an Airbus A380) |
$19.6
billion |
investments
(incl. Citicorp) (has been pushing
women's advancement ... in his offices and his palace
his female employees do not wear the abaya, the black
body-shielding robe and head scarf that Saudi women
must don in public) |
Riyadh |
56yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Mohammed Al Amoudi (born
in Ethiopia ... is close to the Saudi royal family,
which sees him as a can-do guy) |
$12.3
billion |
oil
(owns a gold mine in Ethiopia,
oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden, oil fields off
west Africa) |
Jeddah |
66yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 3.
Sulaiman Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$7.7
billion |
banking
(Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest
Islamic banks in the world) |
Riyadh |
91yo
- Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!) |
| 4.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber |
$7.0
billion |
real
estate, hotels (owns and manages
62 hotels and resorts in the UK, France, Austria, Portugal
and Egypt) |
Jeddah |
52yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Abdullah Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$2.5
billion |
banking
(Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest
Islamic banks in the world) |
Riyadh |
na
- Married |
| 6.
Mohammed Al Issa (fined
$26,667 in June 2009 for insider trading) |
$2.3
billion |
investments |
Riyadh |
86yo
- na |
| 7.
Mohammed Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$1.7
billion |
banking
(Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest
Islamic banks in the world) |
Riyadh |
na
- Married |
| 7.
Saleh Kamel (plans
to establish a global Islamic megabank) |
$1.7
billion |
diversified
(media, banking, tourism, real estate...) |
Jeddah |
69yo
- Married |
Sulaiman Algosaibi, died Feb 2009
(age n/a).
He was worth $2.0 billion.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz,
died Aug 16, 2009, age 59. He was worth
$2.0 billion.
Saleh
Al Rajhi, died
Feb, 2011, age 99. He was worth $5.8
billion. Also famous for having
61
children (22
sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
NOTE:
Two of the four Al Rajhi brothers
have 84 children between them!
TOP
10 - South Korean Billionaires
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... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Lee Kun-Hee (paid
$130 million in overdue taxes in 2008 after allegations
of tax evasion, but got a presidential pardon later
that year ... father of Jay
Y. Lee) |
$8.6
billion |
Samsung
(second largest mobile phone
manufacturer after Nokia) |
Seoul |
69yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Chung Mong-Koo (brother
of Chung Mong-Joon) |
$6.0
billion |
inherited
(Hyundai) (Hyundai Motor became
the world's fourth-largest automaker beating out Ford
in early 2009) |
Seoul |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Chung Mong-Joon (brother
of Chung Mong-Koo ... Korean politician ... has close
ties to the current Korean president, a former Hyundai
executive ... vice president of FIFA, world governing
body for soccer) |
$3.2
billion |
inherited
(Hyundai, ship-building) (Hyundai
Motor became the world's fourth-largest automaker
beating out Ford in early 2009) |
Seoul |
59yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Jay Y. Lee (only
son of Lee Kun-Hee) |
$2.4
billion |
inherited
(Samsung - second largest
mobile phone manufacturer after Nokia) |
Seoul |
42yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 5.
Chung Eui-Sun (oldest
son of Chung Mong-Koo) |
$2.1
billion |
inherited
(Hyundai) (Hyundai Motor became
the world's fourth-largest automaker beating out Ford
in early 2009) |
Seoul |
40yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Shin Chang-Jae |
$2.1
billion |
inherited
(insurance) |
Seoul |
57yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Chey Tae-Won (pardoned
in 2008 for accounting fraud) |
$2.0
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Seoul |
50yo
- Married, 3 children (wife
is daughter of South Korea's former president, Roh
Tae Woo) |
| 7.
Kim Jung-Ju |
$2.0
billion |
online
gaming |
Seoul |
43yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Shin Dong-Bin |
$2.0
billion |
inherited
(retail, food) |
Seoul |
56yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Shin Dong-Joo |
$1.9
billion |
inherited
(retail, food) |
Japan,
Tokyo |
57yo
- Married, 1 child |
Spain
TOP
10 - Spanish
Billionaires
...
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by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Amancio Ortega
(high school drop out ... shuns neckties) |
$31.0
billion |
Zara
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 77
countries) |
La
Coruna
|
74yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Isak Andic & family (enthusiastic
sailor ... his family came to Spain from Turkey) |
$6.1
billion |
Mango
(apparel)
(known for producing reasonably
priced, trendy women's apparel ... has more than 1,200
stores in 92 countries) |
Barcelona |
56yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 3.
Rosalia
Mera (ex-wife
of Amancio
Ortega) |
$4.2
billion |
Zara
(apparel) (4,500 stores in 73 countries) |
La
Coruna |
67yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 4.
Manuel Jove (carpenter
by trade ... collects art from Spanish province of Galicia) |
$3.0
billion |
real
estate |
La
Coruna |
69yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Juan Roig |
$2.9
billion |
supermarkets
(Mercadona, the third largest chain
of supermarkets in Spain with 1,270 stores) |
Spain? |
61yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 6.
Alicia
Koplowitz (rumored
to be romantically involved with the Duque de Huescar,
heir to the Spanish aristocratic house of Alba ... sister
of Esther Koplowitz) |
$2.3
billion |
investments |
Madrid |
56yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 7.
Esther
Koplowitz (Spanish
nobility, holds the title of Marquesa de Casa Penalver.
She is married to Fernando Falco, Marques de Cubas, scion
of an old Spanish family) |
$1.9
billion |
Fomento
de Construcciones y Contratas (construction) |
Barcelona |
57yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Florentino Perez (president
of Real Madrid soccer club from 2000 to 2006. Resigned
in February 2006 after string of defeats. Re-elected president
in 2009) |
$1.9
billion |
construction |
Madrid |
64yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Jose Maria Aristrain (press
shy, reportedly never goes out in public without a bodyguard
to safeguard him and his family from kidnapping and assassination
attempts by Basque separatists ... raises bulls for bullfighting) |
$1.7
billion |
steel |
Madrid |
48yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 10.
Emilio Botin (Botin's
great-grandfather discovered the famous Altamira caves
in northern Spain in 1879) |
$1.5
billion |
banking |
Santander |
76yo
- Married, 6 children |
TOP
10 - Swedish
Billionaires
...
(9
March 2011) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Stefan Persson (acquired
the village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England in 2009) |
$24.5
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (retail) (brought
on big names like Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney to
design affordable collections for it's 2,200 stores in
over 32 countries) |
Stockholm |
63yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Birgit
Rausing & family (husband
Gad Rausing - brother of Hans Rausing - died in 2000 ...
family keeps low profile due to kidnapping attempt on
son, Jorn, in 1989) |
$14.0
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging manufacture) |
Switzerland,
Vaud |
87yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 3.
Sir Hans Rausing (brother
of Gad Rausing - knighted last year for his services to
charity ... resides on a 900-acre estate in the village
of Wadhurst in East Sussex where he collects vintage cars
... stands 6'8" tall; speaks fluent Russian) |
$10.0
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging)
(Moved to England in 1980 to avoid
punitive Swedish taxes) |
UK,
Wadhurst |
84yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Antonia
Johnson (avid
horsewoman ) |
$6.5
billion |
A.
Johnson & Co. (diversified) |
Stockholm |
67yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Ingvar Kamprad &
family (down
$17 billion ... proved the foundation he created and heads,
in tax haven Lichtenstein - valued at $12 billion - owns
Ikea, and its bylaws bar him and his family from benefiting
from its funds) |
$6.0
billion |
Ikea
(retail) (stores in 37 countries) |
Switzerland,
Lausanne
|
84yo
-
Married, 4 children |
6.
Liselott (Lottie) Persson
(sister of Stefan
Persson ) |
$3.4
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (retail) (brought
on big names like Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney to
design affordable collections for it's 2,200 stores in
over 32 countries) |
Stockholm |
61yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Fredrik Lundberg
(once a junior world champion of curling) |
$2.9
billion |
real
estate / investments (has about
150 properties in its portfolio) |
Stockholm |
59yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Melker Schorling |
$2.9
billion |
investments |
Stockholm |
63yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Count Gustaf Douglas (his
familly is of Scottish origin) |
$2.6
billion |
Assa
Abloy (locks) / security (worlds
largest producer of locks) |
Stockholm |
73yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Thomas Sandell (badminton
prodigy) |
$1.1
billion |
hedge
funds |
USA,
NY, New York |
50yo
- Married, 1child |
Switzerland
| |
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| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Ernesto Bertarelli & family (inherited
the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman
who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007) |
$10.0
billion |
inherited
(Sereno Biotech) |
Geneva |
45yo
-
Married (to British beauty queen/singer
... released her debut album 'Elusive' in early 2010),
3 children |
| 2.
Hansjorg Wyss (wine
connoisseur owns a 900-acre ranch and vineyard in California) |
$6.4
billion |
Synthes
(medical-implants and biomaterials ) |
USA,
Penn, West Chester |
76yo
- divorced, 1 child |
| 3.
Thomas Schmidheiny (one
of the Schmidheiny brothers ... wine aficionado owns vineyards
in Argentina, Australia, California and Switzerland ...
honorary Consul-General of the Republic of Cyprus in Switzerland) |
$4.8
billion |
Holcim
(cement)
(world's second-largest supplier of cement and concrete) |
Balgach |
65yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Walter Haefner (OLDEST
BILLIONAIRE ... his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland
- now transferred to his dau. - has approx. 100 horses and
has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle) |
$4.0
billion |
Computer
Associates (software) |
Zurich |
100yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Sergio Mantegazza (loves
expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina)
and a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach) |
$2.9
billion |
Globus
& Cosmos (travel) |
Lugano |
83yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Stephan Schmidheiny (one
of the Schmidheiny brothers ... facing lawsuits in Switzerland
and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related deaths of former
plant workers ... art collector favors contemporary painters) |
$2.9
billion |
investments |
Zurich |
63yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Jean-Claude Gandur (his
collection of Egyptian antiquities is among the best in
the world) |
$2.0
billion |
oil
trading and exploration |
UK,
London |
62yo
- na |
| 7.
Esther Grether & family
(her 20th century
art collection includes over 600 pieces by Pablo Picasso,
Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon) |
$2.0
billion |
Swatch,
art collection |
Basel |
75yo
- Widowed, 2 children |
| 9.
Thomas Straumann (also
owns luxury hotels in Switzerland) |
$1.3
billion |
dental
implants |
Basel |
47yo
- n/a |
TOP
10 - Taiwanese
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Cher Wang & Wenchi
Chen (daughter
of the late Taiwan billionaire Y.C. Wang) |
$6.8
billion |
inherited
(technology) |
Taipei |
53yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Tsai Wan-tsai & family (uncle
of 3 billionaire brothers - Tsai Hong-tu,
T.Y. Tsai,
Chen-da Tsai) |
$6.3
billion |
banking |
Taipei |
81yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Terry Gou (started
company with $7,500 in 1974) |
$5.7
billion |
electronics |
Taipei |
60yo
- Married, 4 children (remarried
in 2008 after first wife passed away) |
| 4.
Tsai Eng-Meng |
$5.2
billion |
food
(Want Want China) |
China,
Shanghai |
54yo
- Married |
| 5.
Wang Yung-tsai (brother
of deceased Taiwan entrepreneurial legend Y.C. Wang) |
$3.5
billion |
plastics |
Taipei |
n/a
- |
| 6.
Barry Lam |
$3.0
billion |
electronics
(Quanta Computer is one of the
world's largest manufacturers of notebook computers) |
Taipei |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Lin Yu-lin (one
of the 3 Lin brothers) |
$3.0
billion |
real
estate |
Taipei |
75yo
- Married, 7 children |
| 8.
Lin Rong San (one
of the 3 Lin brothers) |
$2.8
billion |
real
estate |
Taipei |
na
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
Luo Jye & family |
$2.2
billion |
tires
(customers include GM, Ford) |
Taiwan? |
85yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
T.Y. Tsai (one
of 3 Tsai brothers ... collects cars) |
$2.2
billion |
inherited
(Cathay Financial ) ...
father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. |
Taipei |
na
- Married, 1 child |
Tsai
Wan-lin, died of heart disease on September 27,
2004, age 81.
He was Taiwan's richest person, worth $4.6
billion.
Y.C. Wang died in his sleep on October 15, 2008,
age 91. He was Taiwan's 2nd richest person,
worth $5.5 billion.
Turkey
TOP
10 - Turkish
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Mehmet Emin Karamehmet (sentenced
in Feb, 2010, to 11 years and 8 months jail and fined $300
million dollars for embezzlement ... not in custody yet
and has the right to appeal) |
$4.0
billion |
Turkcell
mobile phone company |
Istanbul
|
66yo
-
Married, 1 child |
| 2.
Semahat Sevim Arsel (one
of 3 Koc children ... because of parasite in her blood spent
years fighting illness in hospital ... fluent in English
and German ... brother Rahmi Koc, sister Suna Kirac and
nephews Mustafa, Omer and Ali Koc are also billionaires) |
$3.0
billion |
diversified |
Istanbul |
82yo
- Married (husband is a doctor) |
| 2.
Husnu Ozyegin (gives
away 2% of net income every month for the construction of
primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) |
$3.0
billion |
banking |
Istanbul |
66yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Mustafa Rahmi Koc (one
of 3 Koc children ... spent two years traveling the world
on his yacht after he retired ... his sisters Semahat Arsel
and Suna Kirac and his sons Mustafa Vehbi, Mehmet Omer and
Yildirim Ali Koc are also billionaires) |
$2.9
billion |
diversified |
Istanbul |
80yo
-Divorced, 3 children |
| 5.
Murat Ulker (fluent
in English and German ... enjoys sailing, hunting and travel) |
$2.8
billion |
food
manufacturing |
Istanbul |
50yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Ferit Faik Sahenk (brother
of Filiz Sahenk ... bankrolled
"Gallipoli" movie) |
$2.7
billion |
bank
and media |
Istanbul |
46yo
- Married (to Diana Sahenk, an American),
2 children |
| 6.
Sarik Tara (born
in Macedonia ... son Mehmet Sinan Tara is also a billionaire) |
$2.7
billion |
Enka
(Turkey's largest construction company) |
Istanbul |
80yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Suna Kirac (youngest
sister of magnate Rahmi Koc ... fluent in French and English
... she can only communicate using her eyes; she has ALS
(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gherig's
disease) |
$2.5
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Istanbul |
69yo
- Married,
1 child |
| 8.
Filiz Sahenk (sister
of Ferit Sahenk ... has large antique collection) |
$2.5
billion |
bank
and media |
Istanbul |
44yo
- Single |
| 10.
Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu (passionate
about luxury cars, has Lambourghini, 2 Bentleys and a Ferrari
California) |
$2.1
billion |
construction |
Istanbul |
57yo
- Married, 3 children |
TOP
8 - Ukranian
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Rinat Akhmetov (up
$10.8 billion! ... son of a coal miner, made his first million
trading coal and coke ... serves as parliamentary member
representing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's party) |
$16.0
billion |
steel,
coal mines |
Donetsk |
44yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 2.
Victor Pin chuk (son-in-law
of ex-president Leonid Kuchma ... spent $5 million on himself
and his wife for a joint birthday party in Courchevel, France
that featured acrobats from Cirque de Soleil and celebrities
including Steven Spielberg) |
$3.3
billion |
steel
pipes |
Kiev |
50yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 3.
Henadiy Boholyubov (partner
of
Ihor
Kolomoyskyy
... his Bogolyubov Foundation focuses on promoting Jewish
education and religion) |
$2.5
billion |
banking,
investments |
Dneptopetrovsk |
49yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 3.
Ihor Kolomoyskyy (partner
of
Henadiy
Boholyubov ... appointed president of the European Council
of Jewish Communities ) |
$2.5
billion |
banking,
investments |
Kiev |
48yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 5.
Kostyantin Zhevago (parliamentary
deputy; his party is in opposition to President Yanukovich's
Party of Regions ... soccer fan owns FC Vorskla football) |
$2.4
billion |
banking,
mining |
Kiev |
37yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 6.
Yuriy Kosiuk (son
of teachers) |
$1.5
billion |
agriculture |
Kiev |
42yo
- Married,
1 child |
| 7.
Andrey Verevskiy (parliamentary
deputy adroitly switched parties from Yulia Tymoshenko's
bloc to new president Victor Yanukovich's bloc when the
political winds shifted) |
$1.1
billion |
agriculture |
Kiev |
36yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 8.
Oleg Bakhmatyuk |
$1.0
billion |
eggs |
Kiev |
36yo
- Married,
3 children |
United
Kingdom
TOP
10 - United Kingdom
Billionaires
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th
Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities) |
$13.0
billion |
real
estate (incl. Mayfair) |
Chester |
59yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 2.
David & Simon Reuben
(two brothers born in Mumbai ... David lives in London in
same house he has owned for past 20 years; Simon resides
in Monaco) |
$8.0
billion |
investments,
real estate |
London
/ Monaco |
68
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Sir Philip & Cristina
Green (high
school dropout ... knighted in 2006 for his services to
the retail industry ... known for circulating with celebrities
... was named International Retailer of the Year by the
U.S. National Retail Federation in Jan. 2011) |
$7.2
billion |
retail
(British Home Stores and Arcadia) |
London |
58yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Richard Branson (high
school dropout ... in February 2006, offered $25 million
prize to anyone who can find a way to remove a billion tons
of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's atmosphere) |
$4.2
billion |
Virgin
(airlines, etc) (the daredevil entrepreneur
won't just be taking tourists to space when Virgin Galactic
launches next year. Branson announced that he'll make room
on his rocket plane for scientists, who will carry out research
and experiments) |
London |
60yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Charles Cadogan & family (the
8th Earl Cadogan heads the 300-year-old real estate trust,
which owns 90 acres in London's Chelsea ... involved in
animal welfare and cancer-research charities) |
$4.2
billion |
real
estate |
London |
73yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Bernard Ecclestone & family (acquired
Queens Park Rangers soccer club in September 2007 ... in
Dec 2010 was mugged with his girlfriend outside his Hyde
Park offices. Thieves took a watch engraved with his name
and left him with a black eye) |
$4.2
billion |
Formula
One (car racing) |
London |
80yo
- Divorced, 2 children (got divorced
in 2009 from former model and his wife of 24 years, Slavica) |
| 7.
Bruno Schroder & family (in
spare time flies planes and breeds Middle White pigs at
his estate in Islay, Scotland) |
$3.7
billion |
banking |
London |
78yo
- Separated, 1 child |
| 8.
David & Frederick Barclay (identical
twins ... own private isle of Breqhou) |
$3.2
billion |
media,
retail |
Island of Brecquou |
77yo
- n/a |
| 8.
Joseph Lewis (nicknamed
"the boxer" on Wall Street ... owns British soccer
team Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) ... spends a couple of months
a year working from his yacht ... art collection includes
works by Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.) |
$3.2
billion |
finance
(currency speculator) |
UK,
Bahamas, Lyford Cay |
74yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Richard Elman & family (started
career as a "coolie in a scrap yard" after quitting
school at age 15) |
$2.8
billion |
finance
(employs 11,000 people at offices
and plants in 38 countries) |
Hong
Kong |
71yo
- Married,
3 children |
United
States
(men)
| |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
William
Gates III (was
world's richest person for 14 of the past 17 years ... Harvard
Uni drop out ... he's given away $30 billion to his Gates
Foundation), |
$56.0
billion |
Microsoft |
WA,
Medina |
55yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Warren Buffett (America's
most beloved investor ... married
longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ...
will donate $31 billion to charity!) |
$50.0
billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
NE,
Omaha |
80yo
-
Widowed, re-married, 3 children |
| 3.
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.)
|
$39.5
billion |
Oracle (purchased
75 companies over the years worth $40 billion) |
CA,
Redwood City |
66yo
-
Divorced, 2 children |
| 4.
Sheldon Adelson (up
$14 billion! ... shares of Adelson's Las Vegas Sands surged
more than 2,000% since their credit crisis nadir) |
$23.3
billion |
casinos |
NV,
Las Vegas |
77yo
- Married,
5 children |
| 5.
Charles Koch (recently
published self-help business book The Science of
Success; claimed company would go public "over
my dead body.") |
$22.0
billion |
Koch
Industries (nation's largest privately
held company) |
KA,
Wichita |
75yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
David Koch (ran
as vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian Party
ticket in 1980) |
$22.0
billion |
Koch
Industries (nation's 2nd-largest privately
held company) |
NY,
New York |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Jim Walton (child
of Sam Walton - d. 1992) |
$21.3
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
AR,
Bentonville |
63yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
S Robson Walton (child
of Sam Walton - d. 1992) |
$21.0
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
AR,
Bentonville |
67yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
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) |
$19.8
billion |
Google
(bought Web video portal YouTube for
$1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share
in early Nov 2007) |
CA,
Palo Alto |
37yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Larry Page (school
drop out ... shares a 767 jet with Google co-founder, Sergey
Brin) |
$19.8
billion |
Google
(bought
Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit
all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007)
|
CA,
San Francisco |
37yo
- Married, 1 child |
United
States
(women)
TOP
10 - USA
Billionaire Women
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Christy
Walton & family (widow
of John Walton - son
of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who
died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) |
$26.5
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
WY,
Jackson |
56yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Alice
Walton (Daughter
of retail pioneer Sam Walton) |
$21.2
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
TX
, Fort Worth |
61yo
- Divorced |
| 3.
Anne
Cox Chambers
(OLDEST FEMALE BILLIONAIRE!) |
$13.4
billion |
media/entertainment
- Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers,
15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) |
GA,
Atlanta |
91yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 4.
Abigail
Johnson |
$11.3
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
MA,
Boston |
49yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Jacqueline
Mars (third
generation inherited company when dad died in 1999) |
$10.0
billion |
candy,
pet food (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. |
NJ,
Bedminster |
71yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 6.
Pauline MacMillan Keinath |
$4.7
billion |
agriculture
(Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries
in 66 countries) |
MO,
St Louis |
77yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
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.) |
$3.4
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
MO,
Columbia |
62yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Danine Avara (father,
Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) |
$3.1
billion |
inherited
(pipelines) (owns more than 49,000
miles of pipelines) |
TX,
Houston |
47yo
- Married |
| 8.
Milane Frantz (father,
Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) |
$3.1
billion |
inherited
(pipelines) (owns more than 49,000
miles of pipelines) |
TX,
Houston |
41yo
- n/a |
| 8.
Randa Williams (father,
Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) |
$3.1
billion |
inherited
(pipelines) (owns more than 49,000
miles of pipelines) |
TX,
Houston |
49yo
- Married, 1 child |
Helen
Walton -
widow of Sam Walton
(d.1992) - died 19 Apr 2007
at age 87. She was the world's 4th richest
woman at the time - worth $16.4
billion.
Barbara
Cox Anthony -
sister of Anne Cox Chambers
- died
28 May 2007 at age 83.
She was the world's 6th richest woman
- worth $12.6 billion.
Billionaires
Under 35
TOP
10 - Billionaires Under 35yo
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Mark Zuckerberg (up
$9.5 billion! ... Harvard Uni dropout ... Facebook founder) |
$13.5
billion |
Facebook |
USA |
26yo
- Single |
| 1.
Dustin Moskovitz (Harvard
Uni dropout ... YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE!...just
8 days younger than his uni roommate, Mark Zuckerberg ...
Facebook's third employee) |
$2.7
billion |
Facebook |
USA |
26yo
- Single |
| 3.
Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives
in one of the family castles ... went to high school in Rome;
studied economics and theology in Scotland ... racecar driver,
tours with a German auto-racing league) |
$2.0
billion |
inherited,
diversified (his 30,000 hectares of
woodland in Germany is considered one of the largest forest
holdings in Europe) |
Germany |
27yo
- Single |
| 4.
Scott Duncan (father,
Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) |
$3.1
billion |
inherited
(pipelines) (owns more than 49,000 miles
of pipelines) |
USA |
28yo
- Single |
| 4.
Eduardo Saverin (Facebook's
co-founder) |
$1.6
billion |
Facebook |
USA |
28yo
- Single |
6.
Yang Huiyan ... (YOUNGEST
FEMALE BILLIONAIRE! ...
rarely seen in public) |
$4.1
billion |
inherited
(real estate) (received 58% stake in
real estate developer Country Garden from its main founder,
her father, Yeung Kwok Keung) |
China |
29yo
- Married |
| 7.
Fahd Hariri (youngest son of
slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) |
$1.5
billion |
inherited
(construction, investments) |
Lebanon |
30yo
- Single |
| 8.
Sean Parker (former
Facebook president, joined Facebook in 2004 ... at 19, the
serial entrepreneur co-founded Napster in 1999, the peer-to-peer
music sharing service that brought free music to the masses,
but quickly collapsed under piracy allegations) |
$1.6
billion |
Facebook |
USA |
31yo
- Single |
| 9.
Aymin Hariri (one of five children
of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) |
$1.5
billion |
inherited
(construction, investments) |
Lebanon |
32yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 10.
Yoshikazu Tanaka |
$2.2
billion |
social
networking (Gree) (attracting
about a million new subscribers a month) |
Japan |
34yo
- Single |
Billionaires Over 90
TOP
12 - Billionaires Over 90yo
...
(9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
Rich-Bastards.com
... Top 10 Rich List |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Walter Haefner (OLDEST
BILLIONAIRE ... his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland
- now transferred to his dau. - has approx. 100 horses
and has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media
Puzzle) |
$4.0
billion |
Computer
Associates (software) |
Switzerland |
100yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
David Rockefeller Sr (grandson
of visionary oil baron John D. Rockefeller now working
to give away his fortune ... Beetle enthusiast has one
of largest collections in world: 160,000 specimens) |
$2.4
billion |
Standard
Oil, banking |
USA |
95yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 3.
Karl Wlaschek (former
jazz pianist ... authorized biography: Karl Wlaschek:
A Success Story.) |
$4.5
billion |
department
stores (Billa) |
Austria |
93yo
- Widowed, 2 children |
| 3.
Kirk Kerkorian (8th
grade dropout ... trained fighter pilots during WWII ...
bought and sold MGM Studios three times) |
$3.5
billion |
investments,
casinos |
USA |
93yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 3.
John Anderson (son
of a barber, sold popcorn as a kid to earn extra cash
... says he'll never retire) |
$2.4
billion |
investments
(emphasizes saving; has called compound
interest the "eighth world wonder.") |
USA |
93yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 3.
Albert Ueltschi (Uni
of Kentucky dropout ... flew Pan Am planes for 26 years) |
$2.0
billion |
FlightSafety |
USA |
93yo
- Widowed, 4 children |
| 7.
Henry Hillman (philanthropist
... shuns publicity: "A whale is harpooned only when
it spouts.") |
$2.1
billion |
investments |
USA |
92yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
Karl
Albrecht (fiercely
private ... raises orchids and plays golf) |
$25.5
billion |
supermarkets
(over
8,000 Aldi stores) |
Germany |
91yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Anne Cox Chambers
(OLDEST FEMALE BILLIONAIRE!) |
$13.4
billion |
media/entertainment
- Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers,
15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) |
USA |
91yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 8.
Sulaiman Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$7.7
billion |
banking
(Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest
Islamic banks in the world) |
Saudi
Arabia |
91yo
- Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!) |
| 8.
Freederik G.H. Meijer (pioneered
'superstore' one-stop shopping) |
$4.7
billion |
supermarkets
(190 Meijer stores in 5 states) |
USA |
91yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
George Mitchell (son
of Greek immigrants ... has created at least 200,000 jobs
in recent years, made millionaires out of poor landowners
and given America 100 years worth of clean(er) energy) |
$2.7
billion |
Mitchell
Energy |
USA |
91yo
- Married,
10 children |
Ernest
Gallo
(USA)
died 6 Mar 2007, age 97. He was
worth $1.3 billion.
Anacleto Angelini (Chile's
and South America's richest man) died 28 August 2007, age
93. He was worth $6.0 billion.
John
Simplot (USA)
died May 25, 2008, age 99. He was the
OLDEST BILLIONAIRE in 2008, worth
$3.8 billion .
Leonore
Annenberg (USA) died March 12 2009, age
91. She was worth $1.7 billion.
Eugen
Viehof (Germany) died Feb 5, 2010, age
93. He was worth $1.9
billion.
Walter
Shorenstein, (USA) died 24 June, 2010,
age 95. He was worth $1.1 billion.
John Kluge, (richest man in USA
from 1989-1991) died September 7, 2010, age 95.
He was worth $6.5 billion.
Saleh
Al Rajhi
(Saudi Arabia) died Feb, 2011, age 99. He
was worth $5.8 billion. Had 61
children (22
sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
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