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Of the 2,043 billionaires in the world, less than 1% are black. There are 10 black billionaires in the world today.

As legend has it, Omidyar was moved by what he saw in eBay users, and how private individuals largely treated each other with respect in commerce, and it inspired him to give his wealth away.

We love to learn about the ways billionaires make their billions. We love it even more when it is in some random way. That's the case with Cheng Lili, the newly-minted billionaire from China. Cheng made his fortune breeding chickens.

In his trademark red fedora, Herb Wertheim looks like a typical senior citizen enjoying his golden years in South Florida. But this 79-year-old is worth a stunning $2.3 billion. How did he do it? The Warren Buffett way.

Charlie Munger has been friends with Warren Buffett since 1959. He's been his right hand man since 1978.  The two have experienced stupendous success together. Munger was asked to reflect on his life. He said the secret to a long and happy life is simple.

At a press conference in Jupiter, Florida, near where the police sting took place, police identified Kraft as one of the more than 24 people being charged.

The house comes with a few high-tech features befitting its former status as one of Musk's LA homes, like a fully-integrated security system.

The Sackler family is the billionaire clan that owns Purdue Pharma, maker of the highly-addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin. They are accused of aggressively pushing the drug to doctors to increase their profit while also misrepresenting the addictive nature of the drug.

It seems not a day goes by without a data breach or malware attack and that has been good for Ken and Michael Xie, the brothers who founded the cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc., nearly 20 years ago. Now, their stakes in the company have made them billionaires.

Cohen first dropped the price of the duplex to $98 million by the end of 2013, going on to cut the price at least five more times.

Beast is a social media darling, and if you've seen photos of the dog, it isn't hard to imagine that he might convince someone to join up with Facebook.

Part of the $200 million donation was financed by the Christie's auction of Rockefeller's famous art collection, which took place toward the end of last last year.

Mukesh and Anil Ambani are billionaire brothers. Just two years apart, they grew up being groomed to take over the company their father built, Reliance Industries. But Mukash is driving Anil's telecom business into bankruptcy.

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have been friends since 1959. They've worked together since 1978. Buffett and Munger have never had even one argument in their more than 40 years working together and 60 years of friendship.

Naturally, it's on one of Virgin Galactic's own rockets that Branson plans to take this trip: SpaceShipTwo, a rocket ship that as its name suggests requires two pilots to operate.