Articles Written by Amy Lamare

Sam Walton's heirs made $70,000 per minute, $4 million per hour, $100 million per day, over the past year. In the past year alone, the Walton fortune is up $39 billion to $191 billion.

Around a month ago, a rumor started circulating that makeup mogul Kylie Jenner was about to sell half her company to cosmetics giant Coty. We hesitated to get involved with it, because it just didn't sound all that plausible at the time.

It's been a minute since the last billionaire update, but as the last weeks of summer tick away, we thought it was time to check back in and see what's been going on with our favorite billionaires.

In the late 17th century actual pirates roamed the seas plundering ships for their own profit. One such pirate was Henry Avery. He became the richest pirate in the world when he raided a ship belonging to India's Grand Ruler and stole $108 million in precious metals and jewels.

Before Ben & Jerry became ice cream moguls, they took a $5 correspondence course on ice cream production from Penn State. Three decades later, they sold their ice cream company for $326 million.

Artificial intelligence is here to stay. The promise of an automated future isn't as far away as you think and many of the companies that offer automation rely on the data coming from Scale AI, Alexandr Wang's startup that highlight's machine learning's bond between humans and algorithms.

Les Wexner, billionaire Limited founder said in a letter to his foundation that Jeffrey Epstein "misappropriated vast sums of money from me and my family."

Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures is an Oscar-winning production company. It's been called cutting edge. It's been called a taste maker. That's all well and good, but those things don't pay the bills and Ellison's company is on the verge of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

There's a notable change to the hierarchy in boxing this year – Floyd Mayweather is no longer on the list of the highest-paid in the sport, but two other athletes are.

There are 36.8 billion acres of inhabitable land on earth and 21 percent of it is owned by just a handful of people. These are the Biggest Landowners In The World…