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A $300 million unused private Boeing 747 built for a Saudi prince might soon make its first flight since being commissioned a decade ago. Its destination? Straight to the scrap yard.

Not only has Gautam Adani's fortune increased more than any other billionaire in the world in 2022 so far, his explosive wealth growth just allowed him to slide above Warren Buffet as the world's fifth-richest person.

When a yacht gets seized, does it just gather dust, rust and barnacles forever? Actually, no. Thanks to a weird quirk, seized yachts will be maintained perfectly by the seizing government… at their expense!

Elon Musk just bought Twitter for $44 billion. At that level, you'd think company co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey would be making out like a king… He is doing very well from the deal, but maybe not as well as you'd guess.

Hastings reportedly owns 5.2 million shares of Netflix stock. Back in October of last year, during better days at the company and when its stock price was sitting at a 52-week high of $700 per share, Hastings's own Netflix stake was valued at $3.6 billion.

Elon Musk is worth $250 billion. That's almost exactly six times greater than Twitter's market cap. But! Just because his net worth exceeds his $43 billion Twitter buyout offer by more than $200 billion, some question if Musk can actually afford to make this purchase a reality.

The sanctions noose just got MUCH tighter around Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's neck.

According to EU authorities, Alisher Usmanov "indirectly transferred assets" to his sister. One of those assets was the now-sized $800 million yacht known as "Dilbar" -the fourth largest yacht in the world.

The craft itself is a 250-foot luxury vessel called Tango, and according to US authorities it was purchased by Vekselberg in 2011 through a network of shell companies with the intention of avoiding financial oversight.

Last month Nikita Mazepin was booted from his Formula 1 race team. Today, Italian financial police seized his $1115 million villa on the coast of Sardinia.

A $3 billion sale would represent a tidy profit for Abramovich, since he paid (per current exchange rates) about $184 million for the team in 2003. However, he is reportedly foregoing all proceeds from the sale and isn't involved in the sale in any way.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz are getting married at some point this weekend. And if you think HIS parents are wealthy, wait til you hear about HER parents.

The last few weeks have been extremely kind to Elon Musk. With Tesla stock soaring, his net worth is once again marching straight towards $300 billion.

Thanks to their soaring business empires, Indian billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani just joined the centibillionaires club for the first time.

Thirty years ago, it only took about $31 billion to be the richest person in the world. Here's a look at who that man was.