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As Microsoft overtakes Apple to be the world's most valuable company, with a $3 trillion market cap, there's a slightly different universe where Bill Gates just became the world's first trillionaire.

As of this writing, Elon Musk is worth a bit over $206 billion. Two years ago it was $340 billion. What would it take for Elon's net worth to break $1 trillion?

The glass ceiling separating women from fortunes in excess of $100 billion has officially been broken as L'Oréal sees a record high on the stock market amid its best single business year since 1998.

Puech is attempting to legally cancel a previous contract between himself and his own non-profit organization Isocrates Foundation and make the employee, described as a "servant, former gardener and handyman" a legal heir instead.

David Tepper spent years toiling at Goldman Sachs, hoping to be made partner. It never happened so he struck out on his own and eventually made a fortune. He then got the best revenge ever….

Branson's usual holiday practice is to rent out the entire island to an ultra-wealthy peer for the season, something that reportedly costs more than $100,000.

Various humanitarian organizations in Ukraine and elsewhere are reported to be clamoring to get a piece of the large sum of money, which for context comes to more than six times that of the foreign aid pledged to Ukraine by the UK government itself,

Interestingly, the investment comes as Berkshire Hathaway has shed stock in many of its other holdings, including General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson.

Griffin is prepared to spend anywhere from $150 million to $400 million on a massive mega-estate in Palm Beach, an investment that will, if all goes to plan, result in a property valued at around $1 billion once it's finished.

Typically, stock holders get totally wiped out when their company declares bankruptcy. Not Adam Neumann. He gets paid $430 million when WeWork goes belly up.

The 92-year-old Ecclestone was also sentenced to 17 months in prison, but the presiding judge suspended the sentence due to his advanced age and declining health.

In case you were wondering, YES inventing Hot Pockets made someone a billionaire. In fact, Hot Pockets turned the Merage family into one of the richest families in America!

More than 600 individual pieces having belonged to various Rothschild family members over the years will be sold by the famous Christie's auction house in New York, with bidding on some items starting at just $100.

Charles Feeney should go down as one of the most important humans in modern history.

The collection includes everything from classics by Picasso and Bacon to more modern pieces like 1995's "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" by Lucian Freud, and is made up of 367 pieces altogether.