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Obviously, it isn't easy for just anyone to become a billionaire. However, the unfortunate fact is that it is even harder if you're black. Of the 607 billionaires in the United States, only five are African American.

1990 was 30 years ago. To make the list of the richest people in the U.S., one "only" had to be worth $260 million. Today, to be the poorest person on that list, you'd need a net worth of around $2 billion.

Billionaire Dan Loeb's 200-foot yacht was anchored off Belize recently when it damaged a part of the pristine Belize Barrier Reef.

Should Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg find himself in the White House, he might find it a bit difficult to find a buyer for his company Bloomberg LP.

Facebook has come a long way since Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin, and Dustin Moskovitz were college students at Harvard working on a project called The Facebook. We know what Mark has been up to, but what about Hughes, Saverin, and Moskovitz?

It just takes one good idea to make it big, but sometimes that good idea takes longer to come along. Just ask Mark Cuban. Sure, today we all know him as a billionaire entrepreneur, but a bit over three decades ago, he was over 30 and coming off a string of failures in business.

If you're short on cash, you can do something called "plassing," that is, giving the plasma in your blood to a blood donation center. Chances are, that center will be owned by the family who is making hundreds of millions each year off the plasma of poor people.

The troubles just keep adding up for Isabel dos Santos. Her assets in Angola were frozen. She was charged with money laundering and embezzlement. Now, Portugal has also frozen her many personal and corporate bank accounts.

Did you happen to catch the end of the Oscars when the diminutive Korean lady got on stage and started talking about how much she loves Parasite director Bong Joon Ho's hair? That was Miky Lee, who is responsible for everything from K-pop sensation BTS to the Oscar-winning film Parasite.

Eccentric billionaire Yusaku Maezawa recently took to Twitter to announce an "entrepreneur competition," with some $91 million in prize money going to ten lucky winners.

Hot pot restaurants are a definite craze sweeping the world and this has made Haidilao founder Zhang Yong the richest man in Singapore – and that's no easy feat. It's pretty hard to become a billionaire as a chef or restauranteur, but that's exactly what Zhang has accomplished.

Do Won and Jin Sook Chang's days at the helm of Forever 21, the company they founded in 1981 is winding down. They've been offered $81 million for their bankrupt retail empire.

Frederick Koch, the eldest of the four sons of Fred and Mary Koch, has died. The cause of death is heart failure. He was 86. He spent his life as he wished, which was far removed from the business his father started and his brothers run and the politics they partake in.

If you met Alexander Fridman, you wouldn't know that he's the son of the 11th richest person in Russia. He rents a two-room apartment on the outskirts of Moscow for $500 a month. He doesn't get financial help from his dad, but he's far from destitute.

Steve Schwarzman's philanthropic pursuits already include more than a billion dollars in giving so far, most of which he has focused on the cause of education.