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It is a precarious time to be a Chinese millionaire or billionaire…

In 1979, 14-year-old Anthony Hsieh was working in his family's liquor store when a masked gunman walked into the store, pointed a gun at his head, and demanded he empty the cash register. This gave him the perspective he needed to found a scrappy, upstart mortgage company and turn it into the second-largest company of its type in the country.

Whoa! There's a big shakeup in the world of billionaire philanthropy today.  Warren Buffett, the billionaire founder of Berkshire Hathaway and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is stepping away from the foundation.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos entered 2020 as the richest person in the world and he ended 2020 with a net worth increase that, if it stood alone, would be good enough to be tied with Mukesh Ambani for the 12th richest person in the world.

Did COVID cause America's 10 richest families to gain or lose money?

Ah pizza. Cheesy, tasty, wonderful pizza. It is a perfect food, but pizza just wouldn't be the same without the cheese. It turns out one guy has been supplying the cheese for America's biggest pizza chains for decades.

MacKenzie Scott is sticking to her pledge to empty the vault. She just donated another $2.74 billion.

In his official financial disclosures, Vladimir Putin claims to be worth around $250,000. Other reports peg the number closer to $200 billion.

If you've ever had Hunt's ketchup, you've gave a few pennies to Norton Simon… a man who turned $7,000 at the height of the Great Depression, into a $10 billion fortune.

The founders of Chinese online education companies have seen their net worths smacked since the beginning of the year. And no one has been smacked harder than Larry Chen.

A Chinese battery company you've never heard of has minuted more billionaires than Facebook and Google combined… actually more than any single company ever!

When Doris Duke was 12 years old, just one month shy of her 13th birthday, she inherited $100 million. It was 1925 and she instantly became the second richest person in the world.

Laurene Powell Jobs is a billionaire, a major philanthropist, advocate for education, art collector, professional sports team owner, and beekeeper.

Dawood Ibrahim might be the most evil, feared AND RICHEST gangster on the planet.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, is inching along in its bankruptcy proceedings. And in a controversial twist, the billionaire Sackler family is one step closer to escaping legal and financial ramifications.