06/10/2015
Hedge fund billionaire ships off overweight pet pig
He was treated like the king of the house, but he got too big, and was sent to a sanctuary in Florida
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06/10/2015
Wealthy ex-wife settles for £1.6m after judge warns on legal costs
A wealthy property developer's wife is to receive over £1.6m in a settlement worked out after a judge urged the couple to spend no more money on their divorce battle after legal costs reached a "crazy" and "absolutely barmy"
06/08/2015
Indian Millionaire Gives Up His Fortune to Become a Humble Monk
Indian businessman Bhanwarlal Raghunath Doshi made headlines last weekend for publicly renouncing his wealth to become a monk.
06/08/2015
British tycoon joins billionaires’ give-it-away club
The Scottish businessman flew last week to a resort in Middleburg, Virginia, for an annual meeting of billionaires, including Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
06/08/2015
Steven Cohen drops $141M on world’s most expensive sculpture
Hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen is the secret buyer of the world’s most expensive sculpture, Alberto Giacometti’s “Man Pointing”
06/05/2015
Robin Williams’ Widow Seeks Clarification of Trust Terms
Dispute over personal effects still ongoing
06/04/2015
Jamie Dimon Is Now a Billionaire, and He Got There in an Unusual Way
Dimon’s fortune derives from a $485 million stake in New York-based JPMorgan, where he’s been chief executive officer since the end of 2005, and an investment portfolio seeded by proceeds from Citigroup stock sales.
06/04/2015
Amid Troubling Sales, Hyundai Motor's Chairman Continues to Lose Chunk of Wealth
Chung Mong-Koo, the head of South Korea’s second-largest family conglomerate has lost $2.3 billion over the last year
06/04/2015
Jamie Oliver may be looking to private equity to fund international expansion plans
The private equity firm behind Hobbs shoes is in talks with Jamie Oliver about acquiring a slice of his business.
06/04/2015
Nicky Hilton's fairytale wedding to take place in Kensington Palace
It looks like Nicky Hilton's wedding is shaping up to be the wedding of the summer.
06/04/2015
Billionaire gives Harvard $400 million gift -- a new record
The Ivy League university, from whose business school Mr Paulson graduated in 1980, is building a new engineering school campus next to the business school in the Allston area of Boston. SEAS will be renamed in his honour.
06/03/2015
Oscar de la Renta’s Will “Snubs” Adopted Son
The details of late fashion icon Oscar de la Renta’s will have come out and are causing quite a stir.
06/02/2015
Karl Wlaschek, World’s Third-Oldest Billionaire, Dies at 97
Among the world’s billionaires, Wlaschek was junior only to former banker David Rockefeller, 99
06/02/2015
Ten More Families Commit Majority of Wealth to Philanthropy
Five years after launching, The Giving Pledge reaches 137 signatories
05/29/2015
Turkish-born yogurt entrepreneur to donate at least half of wealth
The effort asks billionaires to commit to giving away more than half their wealth during their lifetimes or in their wills.
05/28/2015
BRW Rich List 2015: Property hot, mining not
THE two biggest rises and falls in this year’s BRW Rich List tell the story of the Australian economy in two words: mining and property.
05/27/2015
Big Problem for Billionaire Clients: Who Gets the Family Business?
Many of the nation's billionaires are self-made, having bested their competitors and built massive fortunes.
05/26/2015
Maybe He Found Gaddafi's Billions. Or Maybe It’s All a Giant Scam
Libya’s dictator hid a fortune
05/26/2015
David Tepper Net Worth Reached $10.4 Billion. Appaloosa Management’s Return is 27+% Annualized For 22 Years
David Alan Tepper was born in 1957 to a relatively humble Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
05/25/2015
What goes on in billionaires’ brains
All this suggests that what really defines the enormously rich is not how much money they have but, as Fitzgerald hinted at, how that affects their view of the world.