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It pays to be in Vladimir Putin's inner circle, apparently. Putin's former son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, allegedly was given a $380 million stake in Russian petrochemical firm Sibur for just $100.

MacKenzie Bezos – AKA MacKenzie Scott – just revealed she has donated $4.2 billion to 384 charities. That's on top of the $1.7 billion she gave away in late July…

Airbnb started as three air mattresses on the floor of CEO Brian Chesky's apartment and has grown into the largest lodging provider in the world. Airbnb revolutionized the world and made Chesky a billionaire.

As the story goes, a "Bitcoin evangelist" and friend of Son's encouraged him to invest at least one percent of his assets into bitcoins, which at the time came to about $200 million.

A civil court in England froze $5 billion in assets in half a dozen countries as part of an ongoing international legal saga that has the richest businessmen in Kazakhstan defending themselves against allegations of the theft and money laundering of $6 billion.

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have donated more money to federal political campaigns over the past two decades than anyone else in the United States – by FAR.

The dispute has now allegedly spilled over into Gross waging psychological warfare on his neighbors by blaring the theme to TV's "Gilligan's Island" over loudspeakers, day and night. 

A year ago Travis Kalanick sold basically his entire stake in the company he co-founded, Uber. For a little while that looked like a genius move. Today… not so much.

Billionaire Masayoshi Son of SoftBank is stockpiling cash to prepare for a worst-case scenario because he believes the coronavirus will continue to adversely affect companies in the next few months.

The Guinness family just can't catch a break. Sure, they are the billionaire heirs and heiresses of the famous beer, but man oh man there seems to be a curse on their family. Over the years one family member after another has died in strange and unusual ways.

Feeding America is "the largest charitable food assistance network in the U.S.," but MJ himself is quoted on his intent for his pledge to go towards Chicago and the Carolinas.

Just a week after jumping Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk has now jumped Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world for the first time.

It was just announced that the world's largest candymaker, Mars, will acquire Kind, the maker of healthy snack bars in a deal that values Kind at $5 billion. Daniel Lubetzky founded Kind in 2004.

The billionaire Sackler family has been in the news a lot lately. They are the family behind Purdue Pharma the company behind OxyContin. The Sacklers are also known for their contributions to philanthropy and their massive real estate portfolio.

Back in March, billionaire investor Bill Ackman made a decision: He paid $27 million to buy credit defaults and turned that into a profit of $3.6 billion. Now, he's doing it again. When news broke about an effective Covid-19 vaccine, Ackman placed a similar bet.