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Lynsi Snyder  is the heiress to the In-N-Out Burger fortune. She recently put her 18,687 square foot mansion in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley on the market for $19.8 million.

Uber co-founder Garrett Camp decided to become the latest member of the Giving Pledge after a two week trip to Kenya.

Remember when Mariah Carey and billionaire hotelier James Packer were in love? They were so in love they were going to have a number of weddings just to prove to the world that their love was real. Yeah, well, about that…

It might be easy to get the wrong idea about all this, and think that Bezos himself was a long way from the mega-billionaire he is today. But that's not really the case – he was still a very healthy billionaire in 1999.

In 1989 Carlos Pellas and his wife Vivian were aboard a flight that slammed into a mountain, killing 131 people. The Pellas' were just two of 10 people who survived the crash. They were inspired to create ways to change the lives of their fellow countrymen. This is their story.

Suleiman Kerimov is a Russian billionaire who made most of his more than $6 billion fortune from controlling Polyus, Russia's largest gold producer. Recently, the French police detained Kerimov as part of a tax-evasion investigation.

Thiel chose to sell 73 percent of his stock in Facebook, which he was an early investor in as well as serving as a member of the social media giant's board since 2005. In more precise language, that comes to 160,805 shares.

The US has a healthy lead of more than 200 billionaires more than China in the second place slot. But if China and India continue to gestate billionaires at current rates, it's only a matter of time before Asia overtakes North America on lists like this one.

Norway favors a progressive fine structure for drunk driving infractions, where the fine the accused gets slapped with is based on his or her income, or, in Andresen's case, her financial holdings.

Teddy Sagi is a billionaire entrepreneur who lost $52 million in one day. He's not sweating it though because it could have been a lot worse.

There are a lot of ways you can become a billionaire. You can manage a particularly successful hedge fund, you can develop a popular app, you can start and sell a software company, you can be a real estate developer, or you can sell junk food.

For the first time in history, the largest concentration of billionaires is not in the United States, it is in Asia.

Thanks to booming Black Friday sales, Jeff Bezos is about to cross the $100 billion net worth threshold.

A recent investigation has revealed that Russian president Vladimir Putin's confidants are worth close to $24 billion.

Wood owns a little bit over 27 percent of Roku, so it doesn't take a financial wizard to see that a 125 percent increase in value would be very good for his bank account.