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Pablo Escobar's Brother Roberto Is Suing Apple For $2.6 Billion Over His iPhone X
Escobar says that an individual by the name "Diego" took advantage of security flaws in the phone to find Escobar's address, which as you might guess isn't in the phone book.
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SEC Filing Confirms That Elon Musk Just Received $770 Million Performance Bonus
After a brief, Twitter-related setback that we can now say was a mere delay of the inevitable, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally unlocked the first tranche of his massive and unorthodox Tesla pay package.
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How Kirsty Bertarelli Became the Richest Woman In England, With A Net Worth of $10 Billion
Kirsty Bertarelli is living her best life. She's the richest woman in England, with a multi-billion dollar fortune. She's got more money than J.K. Rowling and the Queen of England combined. She and her husband Ernesto Bertarelli are worth a combined $12.1 billion.
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Francoise Bettencourt Meyers Jumps Alice Walton To Become Richest Woman In The World…Again
For the last roughly 15 years, the race for the title of the richest woman in the world has largely been a two-family, four-women race between various members of the Walmart empire and the mother and daughter team behind L'Oreal. This year, L'Oreal wins and Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers is the richest woman in the world.
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The World's Oldest Billionaire Is 102 Years Old And Has No Plans To Slow Down
The title of the oldest billionaire in the world belongs to Chang Yun Chung, who at 102 years old, is the oldest billionaire in the world. Chang earned the bragging rights to this title when David Rockefeller died in 2017 at 101 years old.
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The Billionaires Behind President Trump's Reelection Effort
There are plenty of successful billionaires who aren't afraid to open their wallets to the tune of six-figures to millions of dollars for Trump.
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Oprah Announces $12 Million Gift To Various US Cities In Which She's Lived
Chicago, Baltimore, Nashville, and Milwaukee are the four big cities getting the latest Oprah donation, but the much smaller community of Kosciusko, Mississippi, where she was born, is also included.
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100-Year-Old Tony Murray Is The Oldest Living Billionaire In Europe And A War Hero
We often celebrate the young tech entrepreneurs for their billionaire statuses at such young ages (20s or 30s). We don't often celebrate the older or much, much older people who also are billionaires for maintaining that status or living so long. Well, that's what we're here to do today.
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10 Of The Best Bets On The Stock Market That Have Earned The Bet Maker Millions, If Not Billions
Some people just have a knack for seeing an opportunity in things and making a bet that makes them thousands, if not millions, and sometimes billions. Of course, it helps if the bet maker is in the financial sector already and knows what signs to look for.
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Billionaire Cartel Leader El Mencho's Brother-In-Law Extradited To US
Authorities say that Valencia recently arrived by plane to Washington where he is now being detained and awaiting trial, a little more than four years after he was arrested in Uruguay in April of 2016.
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Elon Musk Follows Through On Plan To Sell All Of His Things And "Own No House," Lists 5 More Houses
We're all handling the isolation and quarantine of the coronavirus pandemic differently. Some of us are mastering our favorite video games, others are getting crafty in their spare time, Elon Musk, has decided to divest himself of all physical possessions.
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Richard Branson Selling Virgin Galactic Shares To Save Virgin Atlantic Airline
Even billionaires are facing tough decisions in the time of coronavirus. Sir Richard Branson may have to sell as much as $400 million of his Virgin Galactic shares in order to save his business empire from the growing costs of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Billionaire Jeweler To The Stars Fighting Extradition To India Over $1.8 Billion Ponzi Scheme Bank Fraud
Billionaire jeweler to the stars Nirav Modi has been on the run and seeking asylum in London for about two years. Now, he's fighting extradition to India, where he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if found guilty.
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Poor Little Rich Girl Wants Her Assets Unfrozen So She Can Live Like A Billionaire Again
Isabel dos Santos claims the courts colluded against her and insists the charges aren't true. She said the fabricated evidence against her included a forged passport in her name, with her photos, but the signature of the late Bruce Lee. She wants her assets unfrozen.
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Shares In Cloudflare Soar, Making Co-Founder Matthew Prince A Brand New Billionaire
Matthew Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based infrastructure and security company. He's been having a good week. He just joined the ranks of the billionaire's club last week after his company's stock hit an all-time high.