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Billionaire Sheikh Facing Charges Of "Reckless Extravagance" Including Filling Mansion's Water Tanks With Imported Evian Water
Shiekh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan is facing charges of "reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources." One of the most absurd things the Sheikh has been accused of is importing Evian water from France to fill the water tanks of his $75 million mansion.
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7 Billionaires Who Live In – And Built – Las Vegas
There are a handful of billionaire businesspeople who played a strong part in building Las Vegas into the thriving entertainment destination it is today.
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Indian Billionaire And Yogi Claim They Have A 100% Herbal Cure For Covid-19 – Experts Disagree
One maker of herbal products in India co-founded by Acharya Balkrishna and yogi Baba Ramdev, called Patanjali Ayurved, is claiming that they've developed an herbal cure for Covid-19 that can completely cure those affected by the ravaging respiratory disease.
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Amazon Just Closed At An All Time High – What Would Jeff Bezos' Net Worth Be Today Had He Never Divorced?
Jeff Bezos is the richest person on the planet by a mile. And with Amazon closing today at an all-time high, his net worth has never been higher… but imagine what it could have been had he never gotten divorced…
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Billionaire Casino Mogul Steve Wynn Lists Las Vegas House For $25 Million
Steve Wynn is making some real estate moves. Three months after listing his Beverly Hills estate for a staggering $135 million, he's put his European-style villa in Las Vegas on the market for $25 million.
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Six Of Warren Buffett's Rules To Live By That Can Help Make Your Business – And Life – A Success
Warren Buffett seems to have life all figured out. It would be nice if we all felt that way. It turns out Buffett has some rules he lives by but we curated the list to apply people in all jobs and their personal lives. Who wouldn't take advice from the Oracle of Omaha?
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Google Founder Sergey Brin Revealed To Be Sole Donor Behind Charity That Sends Ex-Military Into Disaster Zones
Well, isn't this fascinating. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been uncovered as the sole donor to a secretive charity called Global Support and Development, or GSD for short. GSD's employees are deployed to disaster areas on a superyacht called Dragonfly.
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Gap Market Cap Increases By $1.5 Billion, Hours After Announcing Kanye West Partnership
This isn't the first time the rapper and the retailer have worked together: as longtime fans of Kanye's are already aware, he worked at a Gap store as a teenager in Chicago.
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MacKenzie Bezos Is Now The Second Richest Woman In The World
There's been a shakeup near the top of the list of the richest women in the world. Thanks to some surges in the stock price of Amazon, MacKenzie Bezos has moved up the ranks.
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Elon Musk Sells Bel-Air Mansion To Fellow Billionaire William Ding For $29 Million
Musk made his pledge to get rid of all his real estate in the first part of May, which is also when this property was originally listed for $30 million, meaning Ding got a slight $1 million discount on the property.
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2020 Is Weird: Rubber Glove Makers Ride Surge In Demand Of Product To Become Billionaires
If you had asked us back in December or January what the hot new sector creating new billionaires would be – well, suffice it to say we would never have guessed rubber gloves. 2020 is proving to be strange in so many ways.
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Instacart Founder's Net Worth Surges On Strength Of Coronavirus Shut Downs, Making Him A Billionaire
Instacart's 33-year-old founder, Apoorva Mehta, is now a billionaire thanks to the surge in demand for Instacart's services as well as a new funding round on June 11 of $225 million. He now has a net worth of $1.2 billion.
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Chinese Billionaire Property Developer Gets 5 Years In Prison For Child Molestation Conviction
On Wednesday, a court in Shanghai sentenced billionaire real-estate developer Wang Zhenhua to five years in prison for child molestation. Wang was arrested last summer on charges that he assaulted a nine-year-old girl.
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Billionaire Netflix Founder Reed Hastings Donates $120 Million To HBCUs To Fight Racial Injustice
In light of the fight for racial justice after the killings of George Floyd and way too many other unarmed black people, Netflix founder Reed Hastings has made the biggest donation to racial justice, in the form of a $120 million gift to America's HBCUs.
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76ers And Devils' Owner Josh Harris On A Mission To Add The New York Mets To His Growing Sports Portfolio
Josh Harris is a billionaire. He's also the owner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Now, he's looking to add another professional sports franchise to his portfolio – and he very much runs his burgeoning sports empire like he runs his global investment management firm.