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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What day is it? If the day ends in a y, there's probably another Russian billionaire and one-time friend of Vladimir Putin who has died under mysterious circumstances. This time it's Dmitry Bosov, who played hockey with none other than Vladimir Putin.

Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of his family's business, Samsung, has revealed that he has no plans to pass down the management of the conglomerate to his kids. This would end the South Korean chaebol practice of the dynastic control of a family company.

Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone has to be counting her lucky stars for having divorced her ex and baby daddy, James Stunt. He's been charged with what in the U.S. would be two felony counts for money laundering and forgery.

As Jordan put it, he was more interested in Adidas than Nike back in 1984, because he simply didn't believe Nike's product was up to the standard of quality he was looking to represent.

Spielberg's multi-billion net worth is thanks to two chances he took. He and Lucas could not have predicted the success of their respective films. A theme park clause was novel at the time it was written into Spielberg's contract.

On Friday, May 1, Elon Musk tweeted "I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house."  Well, it seems he's making good on that promise – or starting to at least. He just listed two Los Angeles area mansions on Zillow for $30 million and $9.5 million.

In any case, the tweets almost certainly delayed that massive Tesla stock payday that Musk is close to securing, once Tesla's six-month market value price exceeds $100 billion.