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According to Forbes, there are 10 notable new healthcare leaders who have claimed the billionaire status: 1. Uğur Şahin, of Germany – Net Worth: $4.2billion 2. Stéphane Bancel, of France – Net worth: $4.1billion 3. Yuan Liping, of Canada – Net worth: $4.1billion 4. Hu Kun, of China – Net worth: $3.9billion 5. Carl Hansen, of Canada – Net worth: $2.9billion 6. Timothy Springer, … Read more
The wife at the centre of Britain’s biggest divorce battle had two affairs with younger men while married to her Russian oligarch husband, her son has claimed. Tatiana Akhmedova’s flings included a relationship with a New-York based art dealer and a 20-year-old web designer whose brother was best friends with her son Temur, he claimed … Read more
U.S. billionaires have grown their wealth by more than $1trillion since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, an increase of over a third, according to a new report. The analysis found that the 650 billionaires gained $1.008 trillion in wealth between March 18, 2020 and November 24, 2020 and are now worth a combined total … Read more
TV presenter Konnie Huq has called for billionaires to be scrapped. The longest serving female Blue Peter presenter said she would like to implement a cap on earnings of the richest and distribute the extra money to ‘good causes’ instead. The 45-year-old added that she would increase the wages of key workers, as they are … Read more
Anders Holch Povlsen, worth almost £5billion, is the owner of the international fashion business Bestseller and the biggest shareholder in the British online fashion company ASOS. He is also Scotland’s biggest landowner, where he owns over 200,000 acres across 11 estates. It is all a long way from the tiny Danish town of Brande, with a … Read more
The Covid-19 crisis has hammered the finances of households across the UK. But according to a report, the rich are getting even richer – with Britain’s billionaires seeing their wealth soar by more than a third over the past year. Swiss bank UBS says the combined wealth of the world’s billionaires has topped $10trillion (£7.7trillion) … Read more
Former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon was back on the air on his internet radio show Friday just hours after being hauled away in handcuffs aboard a mega-yacht owned by a Chinese billionaire. Bannon was arrested Thursday as part of an alleged fraud scheme to defraud hundreds and thousands of donors to the ‘We … Read more
We can’t say we weren’t warned, can we? The streets of London — and other big cities too — are swarming with Russian spooks. Some of them much scarier than others. The sort who might jab Russia’s enemies with the poisoned tip of an umbrella or smear a deadly nerve agent on a door handle. … Read more
Swiss firm will offer billionaires $500,000 ‘treasure chamber’ vaults carved in to a mountain to store prized possessions Plan for the vaults has been put forward by Swiss firm Bruenig Mega Safe AG To be built inside Bruenig massif, a mountain near Lucerne, central Switzerland Vaults will range from 3,531 cubic feet to up to 1,000 … Read more
Arizona Arturo Moreno: $3.3billion Arkansas Jim Walton: $54.6billion California Larry Ellison: $59billion Colorado Philip Anschutz: $11billion Connecticut Ray Dalio: $18billion Washington, DC Donald Trump: $2.1billion Florida Thomas Peterffy: $14.3billion Georgia Jim Kennedy: $7.6billion Hawaii Pierre Omidyar: $11billion Idaho Frank Vandersloot: $3.5billion Illinois Ken Griffin: $12.1billion Jim Walton received the top billionaire spot for the state … Read more