Oprah Winfrey built a $2.6 billion fortune off of her beloved talk show. From...
Oprah Winfrey's net worth is an estimated $2.6 billion.She grew up poor and had a difficult childhood.She transformed her famous talk show, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," into a media and business...
View ArticleThe billionaire founder of Jimmy John's donated $100,000 to Trump's...
Jimmy John Liautaud founded his eponymous sandwich chain at age 19 with a $25,000 loan from his father.Liautaud went from spending late nights delivering subs to college students from a converted...
View ArticleAn Indian businessman just became the first Asian member of the world's 10...
An Indian businessman just became the first Asian member of the world's top 10 richest people, per Fortune.Mukesh Ambani is worth an estimated $64.5 billion, making him the ninth-richest person in the...
View ArticleDonald Trump has lost $1 billion during the pandemic. Here's how he spends...
Donald Trump, who's worth an estimated $2.1 billion, is the first billionaire in history to serve as president of the United States.The president's fortune has taken a roughly $1 billion hit due to the...
View Article9 facts that show just how wealthy Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg really is
Mark Zuckerberg's net worth dropped nearly $10 billion in just a week.The drop came after Coca-Cola and other major companies suspended advertising with the social-media giant.Zuckerberg's net worth,...
View ArticleDid Kim Kardashian just become a billionaire? It's complicated.
Kim Kardashian West is likely not a billionaire, despite numerous headlines making that claim after a new investment in KKW Beauty valued the company at $1 billion.The billion-dollar figure is based on...
View ArticleThese 15 countries are home to the most billionaires
Fifteen countries account for 76% of the world's billionaire population and 80% of the world's billionaire wealth, according to Wealth-X's 2020 Billionaire Census report.All countries, except for UAE,...
View ArticleOnly 10% of billionaires have pledged to donate to coronavirus relief
As much as 90% of billionaires did not donate to coronavirus relief efforts in the first half of 2020, wealth research firm Wealth-X reported in its 2020 Billionaire Census.Billionaires are responsible...
View ArticleThe top 10 cities in the world for billionaires, ranked
Nearly a third of the world's billionaire population is concentrated in just 15 cities, according to Wealth-X's recently released annual Billionaire Census.Strong tech industries have fostered...
View ArticleJeff Bezos' net worth just hit an all-time high. Here's how the richest...
Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest person alive, is now richer than he's ever been.Bezos pledged to spend $10 billion to fight climate change in February and promised $100 million to food banks in April.As...
View ArticleThe founders of Panda Express built a $3 billion fortune off of the Chinese...
Panda Express is helmed by married couple and co-CEOs Peggy and Andrew Cherng.The Cherngs made a multi-billion fortune after growing the chain from a single restaurant in a California mall to a...
View Article11 mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Mukesh Ambani, the richest...
Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani is worth $68.4 billion, making him the richest person in India and all of Asia.Ambani, the chairman and largest shareholder of oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance...
View ArticleWarren Buffett has given almost half of his fortune to charity. He would...
Warren Buffett has gifted nearly half of his wealth to charitable causes.If the famed investor had kept all 475,000 of his Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares, they would be worth about $129 billion...
View ArticleWarren Buffett tumbles to his lowest ever position on the list of the world's...
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett donated $2.9 billion worth of Class B shares in his Berkshire Hathaway charity this week, taking his total philanthropic contributions to $37 billion in 14 years.The...
View ArticleTwitter billionaire Jack Dorsey just announced he'll fund a...
On Thursday, Jack Dorsey, the billionaire CEO of Twitter, announced that he would donate $3 million to a group of mayors of more than a dozen US cities to fund universal-basic-income pilot...
View ArticleElon Musk is now officially richer than Warren Buffett after Tesla's stock...
Elon Musk is officially more wealthy than Warren Buffett.Tesla stock, of which Musk is the largest holder, skyrocketed to record highs this week.Buffett, meanwhile, donated almost $3 billion of...
View ArticleA family feud over a $400 million trust fund, a massive fortune that left one...
The Walt Disney Company is worth an estimated $130 billion.The Disney family's fortune isn't known, but they own less than 3% of the company, according to Walt Disney's grand-nephew, Roy P.Two of Walt...
View ArticleMeet Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue, who sparked a protest of his Latino foods...
Goya Foods President and CEO Robert Unanue sparked a boycott of the Latino food product maker Thursday after saying that the US was "truly blessed" to have President Trump as commander-in-chief.Unanue...
View ArticleThe Twitter hack shows Americans still want billionaires to come to the...
Scammers hacked dozens of prominent Twitter accounts, including former President Barack Obama and billionaires such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk, and fooled many into thinking rich and powerful...
View ArticleThe world's richest people poured billions into stocks at the start of the...
UBS says its ultra wealthy clients are moving out of stocks to invest in more illiquid areas. Some of these include residential real estate and private equity, the Swiss bank said in a report this...
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