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In 2004, Forbes named Rowling "the first billion-dollar author". [177] Rowling denied that she was a billionaire in a 2005 interview. [178] By 2012, Forbes concluded she was no longer a billionaire due to her charitable donations and high UK taxes. [179] She was named the world's highest paid author by Forbes in 2008, [180] 2017 [181] and 2019 ...
Lurie's name also had surfaced in sale talks regarding the Los Angeles Rams, and he was a potential investor in a bid for a Baltimore expansion team with Robert Tisch, who subsequently bought 50% of the New York Giants. Five months later, Smith agreed to let his nephew buy the Philadelphia Eagles.
Reginald Francis Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was one of the richest Black American men in the 1980s, and the first African-American to build a billion-dollar company: TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc. [1]
On Sept. 29, 1916, newspapers across the country announced a wealth milestone once thought to be unreachable: the world’s first billionaire. Top 10 people most likely to reach trillionaire ...
Stewart was first declared a billionaire by Forbes in 2000. However, Forbes last reported her net worth to be $220 million in 2015, making her just $30 million shy of the outlet's inaugural list ...
In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [7] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...
Consequently, Rockefeller became the country's first billionaire, with a fortune worth nearly 2% of the national economy. [7] His personal wealth was estimated in 1913 at $900 million, which was almost 3% of the US gross domestic product (GDP) of $39.1 billion that year. [8]
The character of Andrew Ryan in the 2007 video game BioShock is loosely based on Hughes. Ryan is a billionaire industrialist in post-World War II America who, seeking to avoid governments, religions, and other "parasitic" influences, ordered the secret construction of an underwater city, Rapture. Years later, when Ryan's vision for Rapture ...