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Branson laid the situation bare in an open letter to Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia's employees, citing "the severe uncertainty surrounding travel today" as a potentially fatal blow to his companies.

It goes without saying that there are a lot of rich people in California. From Hollywood to real estate to tech titans, California are bringing home the proverbial bacon by the millions and billions.

A couple in Houston, excuse me, I mean a very rich couple in Houston, is going through a divorce after three decades of marriage. Together, they have a number of homes which the husband carefully hid in trusts to prevent his ex-wife from getting them.

Reportedly, more than 150 members of the Saudi royal family have been sickened by COVID-19.

Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you were a billionaire or married to one? Countess Alexandra Tolstoy can tell you. She met and fell in love with the man of her dreams. He just happened to be a billionaire Russian oligarch, and friend of Vladimir Putin's, Sergei Pugachev.

"To get to the best case," Gates explained, "we need to do safety and efficacy and build manufacturing" at the same time in order to speed up the timeline.

We've put together a list of books that will help you become a billionaire. Reading them may not make you a billionaire, but settling in with a book is sure to do one thing – use up some of all this time we have on our hands, suddenly.

Former Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone is going to be a dad…again! The 89-year-old has three adult daughters from two of his previous wives. He's expecting baby number four, his first son, with his third wife, 44-year-old Fabiana Flosi.

It's pretty easy to think that Bill Gates has been the richest man in the world for, well, all the years up until Jeff Bezos took over, but that's not quite true. Back in the early 90s, two Japanese billionaires dominated the list of the richest people in the world.

In 1990, Ralph Lauren, then 51, had a net worth of $600 million and was the 138th-richest person in the U.S. Today, Lauren, 80, is worth $8.2 billion and he is the 154th-richest American this year. 

In 1990, Jaqueline Mars, then 51, was the 29th richest American with a net worth of $1.7 billion. Today, Mars, 80, an heiress to the candy fortune, has a net worth of $37 billion and is the 19th richest person in the U.S. and the fourth-richest woman.

In 1990, Les Wexner, then 53, had a net worth of $1.8 billion and was the 25th richest person in the U.S. Today, Wexner is 82, worth $4.8 billion and despite being worth $3 billion more than he was in 1990, he is the 154th richest American this year.

Sometimes Karma truly does work out. WeWork founder Adam Neumann is losing a key part of his golden parachute from SoftBank due to multiple new and significant civil and criminal investigations into the shared-space office leasing company. He is no longer a billionaire.

Bill Gates has been the richest man in the world for 18 of the last 33 years. Back in 1991 and 1992, however, Taikichiro Mori, a mild-mannered economics professor turned billionaire real estate developer, was the richest man in the world.

The NBA could lose out on $500 million in ticket revenue if the entire season and playoffs are canceled completely. Despite this likelihood, some NBA players have decided to help out the people who would be working in the arenas in which they play.