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There are rags to riches stories and then there's the story of Leonardo Del Vecchio. He was so poor as a child, his mother abandoned him to an orphanage. When he died Monday, at the age of 87, he was the richest person in Italy.

Clif Bar is being acquired by Mondelez for $2.9 billion, and in the process mints a massive shared fortune for the company's husband and wife co-owners.

Eight months ago, bitcoin reached an all-time high. Today it's sitting a two-year low. And as the prices have crumbled, so have the fortunes of these once high-flying crypto tycoons.

In China, the charge of illegal collection of public deposits can carry a prison sentence of five years or more depending on the severity of the alleged crime, and courts rarely find defendants not guilty once formal charges are brought about.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is seeing his net worth explode… in a bad way.

Abramovich is alleged to have violated export regulations put in place in the wake of the war, and now a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and a Gulfstream jet reportedly worth a combined $400 million could be on the hook.

According to Forbes, LeBron James just officially achieved billionaire status. Is this true?

A warning to all billionaires (and millionaires) who call themselves "rags to riches" stories: Read up on Mohed Altrad's origins before throwing that phrase around…

The report is timed to shine a light on increasing income inequality at the start of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

According to a statement from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Scott has made the single largest individual contribution in the entire organization's history.

The two didn't have a prenup, and with a net worth of $5 billion, John has plenty of property, including expansive estates located in Aspen and Southampton, and a ritzy 28,000 Manhattan apartment.

Once upon a time, the sellers were some of the most powerful people in Saudi Arabia, but now Prince Mohammed has made drastic changes to their situations.

When Oleg Tinkov started the year, he was worth $9 billion. Then he criticized the war in Ukraine. Today he no longer owns the bank he founded and his family is reportedly in hiding.

If you think you've lost a lot of money in recent weeks and months, don't mention that around Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.

This is the second largest donation ever given to a university and it will create the first new school at Stanford in over 70 years.