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This is pretty amazing. Robert F. Smith, AKA The richest black person in America, just stunned the Morehouse College class of 2019 with an incredible announcement.

Mark Zuckerberg has had a busy year and we're not talking about all the issues at Facebook. Earlier this year, Mark and his wife Priscilla Chan closed on $59 million worth of real estate on Lake Tahoe. It is the latest purchase in the couple's impressive real estate portfolio.

The fallout from the college admissions scheme run by William Rick Singer and known in the press as Operation Varsity Blues, just keeps on coming. Tao Zhao, a Chinese billionaire, paid $6.5 million to get his daughter into Stanford.

Well, this is interesting. Johann Rupert, the billionaire owner of luxury jewelry company Cartier, has shared his biggest fear. He is terrified of robots replacing workers and the poor rising up to bring down the rich. I guess he'd better lock his doors!

After Maezawa took to Twitter to announce he's selling off a few pieces of art, a follower asked if he was doing so because he was "broke," and he replied in the affirmative.

It goes without saying that Beyoncé and Jay-Z are one of the wealthiest couples in the world. They both have had epic careers and show no signs of slowing down. Jay and Bey earn a combined $100 million every single year from sales of records, touring, merchandise, endorsements, business ventures and more.

As legend has it, Groen founded the company that would become Takeaway.com in 2000, after becoming frustrated by the lack of menus for local restaurants online.

Overall, Gates has sold some $40 billion worth of Microsoft shares over the course of the company's history, and has received $12 billion in dividends.

Dmitry and Igor Bukhman grew up in a remote Russian city sharing a bedroom and a Pentium 100 computer that they coded their first game on. Today, Wall Street has come calling for the business the 34- and 37-year-olds have built.

Billionaire Twitter founder Jack Dorsey isn't acting much like he has all the money he could ever need. He isn't drinking top shelf liquor or dining in the finest of restaurants. Rather, he's embraced an extreme form of self-denial that is puzzling, to say the least, and he isn't the only one.

All together so far, the superrich of France have pledged 600 million euros – equivalent to $677 million USD to help rebuild Notre Dame.

On Monday the world watched with shock as the famed Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire and burned, causing catastrophic damage to the 850-year-old structure. Now, Salma Hayek's husband and father in law have stepped in to pledge $113 million to help rebuild the historic cathedral.

Backed by his father Shahid's money, wrestling fan Tony Khan is clearly breaking out some big guns to try and loosen WWE's stranglehold on the mainstream wrestling audience.

The parent company of Circle K, Couche-Tard, has had a run on its stock of late. It is trading at all time highs, making the co-founder of the Canadian company and former CFO a billionaire.

Gates didn't become a billionaire on the day in 1986 when Microsoft went public. The opening stock price was $21. After the trading day, the stock closed at $27.75 and Bill's 45% was worth $350 million.