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Tori Spelling. Well-known actress and one of the heirs to father Aaron Spelling’s $600 million fortune, Tori Spelling’s spendthrift ways caused her father to limit her inheritance to a mere ...
Born Rich is a 2003 documentary film about the experience of growing up in wealthy families. It was created by Jamie Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and filmed primarily between 1999 and 2001.
Business Insider has compiled a list of 12 high-profile millionaires and billionaires — some of whom are the world's biggest business magnates — who won't be signing over their fortunes to ...
The richest heirs and heiresses in the world span from hardworking retail owners to royalty, and the businesses they run vary just as much.
George Allan Webbe DL (15 January 1854 – 19 February 1925) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.. The eldest son of Alexander Allan Webbe (1808-1868) and Marian Cutler (1825-1914), he was born at Westminster into a wealthy family that had long belonged to the colonial elite of Nevis.
Bernard Lafferty (14 April 1945 – 4 November 1996) was an Irish butler and heir to American tobacco heiress and philanthropist, Doris Duke.Duke hired Lafferty in 1987 and named him the executor of her $1.2 billion estate six months prior to her death in October 1993.
Some built upon their inherited fortune to create companies that far exceed those of their parents or spouses -- like the Koch Brothers or L'Oreal's Liliane Bettencourt -- while others, such as ...
Detailed anthropological and sociological studies have been made about customs of patrilineal inheritance, where only male children can inherit. Some cultures also employ matrilineal succession, where property can only pass along the female line, most commonly going to the sister's sons of the decedent; but also, in some societies, from the ...