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— Scrooge McDuck

oligarchy entry at Wikipedia
billionaires entry at Wikipedia
search for books on keyword 'oligarchy' {returns 900+ titles} at Amazon
search on keyword 'billionaire' [returns 550 titles] at Internet Movie Database

top 25 oligarchs worldwide
http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Welcome to the age of ultra-nepo babies: Every billionaire under the age of 30 inherited their fortune - per Fortune Magazine, in 2024

25 Phil Knight & family $45.1 billion United States Nike

24 Gautam Adani $47.2 billion India infrastructure, commodities

23 Michael Dell $50.1 billion United States Dell Technologies

22 David Thomson & family $54.4 billion Canada media

21 Alice Walton $56.7 billion United States Wal-Mart, Inc.
20 Rob Walton & family $57.6 billion United States Wal-Mart, Inc.
19 Jim Walton $58.8 billion United States Wal-Mart, Inc.

17 {tied} Charles Koch & family $59 billion United States Koch Industries
17 {tied} Julia Koch & family $59 billion United States Koch Industries

16 Mark Zuckerberg $64.4 billion United States Meta/Facebook, Inc.

15 Zhong Shanshan $68 billion China beverages, pharmaceuticals

14 Sergey Brin $76 billion United States Google, Inc.

13 Amancio Ortega $77.3 billion Spain Zara

12 Larry Page $79.2 billion United States Google, Inc.

11 Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family $80.5 billion France L'Oréal

10 Steve Ballmer $80.7 billion United States Microsoft, Inc.

9 Mukesh Ambani $83.4 billion India diversified

8 Carlos Slim & family $93 billion Mexico Telmex, América Móvil, Grupo Carso

7 Michael Bloomberg $94.5 billion United States Bloomberg L.P.

#6 Bill Gates $104 billion United States Microsoft, Inc.

#5 Warren Buffett $106 billion United States Berkshire Hathaway
As of June 2024, Buffett had a net worth of $135 billion, making him the tenth-richest person in the world.

#4 Larry Ellison $107 billion Oracle Corporation
Oracle founder Larry Ellison bought 98% of the island Lanai in Hawai'i in 2012

#3 Jeff Bezos $114 billion United States Amazon, Inc.

March 2024: Jeff Bezos dethroned Elon Musk to become the richest person on Earth again;
just wait a couple of months and they'll switch again (and again, and again).

#2 Elon Musk $180 billion Tesla, SpaceX, Xtwitter

#1 Bernard Arnault & family $211 billion France LVMH
"Merci Patron!" (2016)
A family fired by a company owned by LVMH (group owned by French billionaire, Bernard Arnault) seeks reparation from their previous employer
with the help of a movie director. Director: François Ruffin | Stars: François Ruffin, Bernard Arnault, Marie-Hélène Bourlard, François Chérèque
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5326448/

top 20 oligarchs in USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_richest_Americans_in_history

WW#35 USA#20 Miriam Adelson & family $35 billion casinos - majority owner of Las Vegas Sands Corp.

WW#31 USA#18 {tied} Jacqueline Mars $38.3 billion candy, pet food
WW#31 USA#18 {tied} John Mars $38.3 billion candy, pet food

WW#25 USA#17 Phil Knight & family $45.1 billion Nike

WW#23 USA#16 Michael Dell $50.1 billion Dell Technologies
WW#21 USA#15 Alice Walton $56.7 billion Wal-Mart, Inc.
WW#20 USA#14 Rob Walton & family $57.6 billion Wal-Mart, Inc.

WW#19 USA#13 Jim Walton $58.8 billion Wal-Mart, Inc.

WW#17 USA#11 {tied} Charles Koch & family $59 billion Koch Industries
WW#17 USA#11 {tied} Julia Koch & family $59 billion Koch Industries

WW#16 USA#10 Mark Zuckerberg $64.4 billion Meta/Facebook, Inc.

WW#14 USA#9 Sergey Brin $76 billion Google, Inc.

WW#12 USA#8 Larry Page $79.2 billion Google, Inc.

WW#10 USA#7 Steve Ballmer $80.7 billion Microsoft, Inc.

WW#7 USA#6 Michael Bloomberg $94.5 billion Bloomberg L.P.

WW#6 USA#5 Bill Gates $104 billion Microsoft, Inc.

WW#5 USA#4 Warren Buffett $106 billion Berkshire Hathaway

WW#4 USA#3 Larry Ellison $107 billion Oracle Corporation

WW#3 USA#2 Jeff Bezos $114 billion Amazon, Inc.

WW#2 USA#1 Elon Musk $180 billion Tesla, SpaceX, Xtwitter

top 15 fictional oligarchs
http://www.therichest.com/rich-powerful/richest-fictional-characters-all-time/
http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2013/fictional-15/index.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2013/07/31/the-2013-forbes-fictional-15/?sh=33b50ce767ff

#15: Jay Gatsby – $1 billion
"The Great Gatsby" novel [1925] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]

#14: Lady Mary Crawley – $1.1 billion
from the megahit "Downton Abbey" TV series & feature films

#13: Mr. Monopoly – $1.2 billion
originally known as Rich Uncle Pennybags • Spirit of America Bookstore's Monopoly™ Game Page

#12: Lara Croft – $1.3 billion

#11: Walden Schmidt – $1.3 billion
Ashton Kutcher’s character from "Two and A Half Men" TV sitcom

#10: "The Simpsons" character C. Montgomery Burns – $1.5 billion
"The Simpsons" (1989-present) episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One" (1995) /tt0701294/
After Mr. Burns steals oil from Springfield Elementary and blocks out the sun, an unknown person shoots him.
Director: Jeffrey Lynch | voice actors Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

#9 for 2013: Tywin Lannister – $1.8 billion
replaced by 'Daddy' Warbucks • character in sci-fi author George R.R. Martin's epic "Game of Thrones" novels & TV series

#9: Christian Grey – $2.5 billion
"Fifty Shades of Grey" (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322441/
"Fifty Shades Darker" (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4465564/

#8: Richie Rich – $5.8 billion
"Richie Rich" (1994)
A rich young boy finds his family the target of an inside job, and must use his cunning to save them.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Edward Herrmann, John Larroquette, Christine Ebersole
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110989/

#7: Bruce Wayne – $9.2 billion
moonlights as crime-stopper Batman

#6: Charles Foster Kane – $11.2 billion
central character in the Orson Welles [1915-85] masterpiece "Citizen Kane" [1941]

#5: Tony Stark – $12.4 billion
moonlights as Avengers team member Iron Man
"The Invincible Iron Man" (2007 Video) | Animation, Action, Adventure
When a cocky industrialist's efforts to raze an ancient Chinese temple leads him to be seriously wounded and captured by enemy forces, he must use his ideas for a revolutionary power armor in order to fight back as a superhero. Directors: Patrick Archibald, Jay Oliva, Frank Paur | Stars: Marc Worden, Gwendoline Yeo, Rodney Saulsberry, Elisa Gabrielli
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903135/
"Iron Man" (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/
"Iron Man 2" (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/
"Iron Man 2" (2010 Video Game) based on the film of the same name.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371159/
"Iron Man 3" (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/

#4: Oliver 'Daddy' Warbucks – $36.2 billion
foster parent of Little Orphan Annie

#3: Carlisle Cullen – $46 billion
the "Twilight" character has been alive for 360+ years, made some very smart investments back in 1670

#2: Smaug the Dragon – $54.1 billion
central villain in "The Hobbit" [1937] by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]

#1: Uncle Scrooge McDuck – $65.4 billion
Scrooge McDuck began appearing in Disney comics in 1947 with Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey & Louie, Gladstone Gander, and villains The Beagle Boys; Scrooge McDuck also made brief cameo animated appearances on the "Mickey Mouse Club" TV show. However, the 1967 short film is his first proper animated appearance, and his first starring role in film. Scrooge and Huey, Dewey & Louie were featured in the syndicated TV series "DuckTales" [100 episodes 1987-90, 69 new episodes 2017-21]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck

"$crooge McDuck and Money" [Walt Disney Prodns/Buena Vista March 1967]

Semi-educational 17-minute Technicolor cartoon with rhyming dialogue and songs; Scrooge McDuck teaches Huey, Dewey, and Louie the basics about money & its history, economics &budgeting, and investing • Produced by Walt Disney [1901-66]; directed by Hamilton Luske; story written by Bill Berg; music by Mel Leven & Franklyn Marks; featuring Bill Thompson {as voice of Scrooge McDuck}, The Mellowmen Quartet {as voices of Huey & Dewey & Louie} full credits at IMDb • cartoon entry at Wikipedia • DVD/Blu-ray not available watch re-mastered cartoon [11/2020 upload; 16:58] online at YouTube

"Walt Disney's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" [Denmark 1992-94, USA 1994-96] by author & artist Don Rosa first volume of 12 comic book tales in Don Rosa's serialized biography of Scrooge McDuck Gemstone Publng 10x6½ pb [6/2007] out of print/used "Walt Disney's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion" [2006] second volume of 12 comic book tales in Don Rosa's serialized biography of Scrooge McDuck; these take place before, during, and after the stories in Volume 1 Gemstone Publng 10x6½ pb [9/2006] out of print/used BOOM! Studios 10x7 hardcover [11/2010] out of print/used 2-volume boxed set [2019]: the 24 comic book tales in Don Rosa's serialized biography of Scrooge McDuck, here printed in chronological order BOOM! Studios 11&fra34x9 hardcover [11/2010] for $45.80

"DuckTales" TV series & feature film
[Disney XD 1987-90 & Disney XD 2017-21]
animated comedy-adventure series chronicles the high-flying adventures of trillionaire Scrooge McDuck; his temperamental nephew Donald Duck;
grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie; Launchpad McQuack; and Mrs. Beakley & her hyperactive granddaughter Webbigail 'Webby' Vanderquack The series started with "Ducktales: Treasure of the Golden Suns," a two-hour TV movie in which Donald joins the Navy and sends Huey, Dewey, and Louie to live with their great-uncle Scrooge. This adventure was recut into the first five episodes, which are not included in this set.)
series homepage at Disney website - includes 24 viewable hour-long episodes

		"DuckTales" animated TV series [1987-90] 100 total episodes: Season 1 = 65 episodes, Season 2 = 10 episodes, Season 3 = 18 episodes, Season 4 = 7 episodes; voices of David Tennant {as Scrooge McDuck}, Ben Schwartz {as Dewey}, Danny Pudi {as Huey}, Bobby Moynihan {as Louie}, Kate Micucci {as Webbigail 'Webby' Vanderquack}, Beck Bennett {as Launchpad McQuack}, Keith Ferguson {as Flintheart Glomgold}, Tony Anselmo {as Donald Duck}, Toks Olagundoye {as Mrs. Beakley}, Paget Brewster {as Della Duck}, Jim Rash {as Gyro Gearloose}, Corey Burton {as Ludwig Von Drake}, Paul F. Tompkins {as Gladstone Gander}, Tress MacNeille {as Daisy Duck} • series credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia Volume 1, 27 episodes: Walt Disney Home Ent. color DVD set [12/2013] 3 disks for $8.90 Volume 1, 27 episodes: Walt Disney Home Ent. color DVD set [11/2005] 3 disks for $11.99 Volume 2, pilot + 19: Walt Disney Home Ent. color DVD set [12/2013] 3 disks for $9.69 Volume 2, pilot + 19: Walt Disney Home Ent. color DVD set [11/2006] for $9.99 Volume 3, 24 episodes: Walt Disney Home Ent. color DVD set [12/2013] for $9.99 Volume 3, 24 episodes: Walt Disney Home Ent. color DVD set [11/2007] for $16.49 Volume 4 Exclusive DVD, 25 episodes: Walt Disney Home Ent. color DVD set [9/2018] 3 disks for $38.95
		"DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of The Lost Lamp" [1990] 'their first full-length big-screen adventure': Scrooge McDuck takes Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Egypt to find a pyramid and magic lamp • Co-produced & directed by Bob Hathcock; screenplay by Alan Burnett; voices of Alan Young {as Scrooge}, Terence McGovern {as Launchpad}, Russi Taylor {as Huey / Dewey / Louie / Webby}, Richard Libertini {as Dijon}, Christopher Lloyd {as Merlock}, June Foray {as Mrs. Featherby}, Chuck McCann {as Duckworth}, Joan Gerber {as Mrs. Beakley}, Rip Taylor {as the Genie} • movie credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Disney Home Ent. color DVD [8/00] for $24.98 Walt Disney TV Animation color DVD [1/2015] for $9.98 Disney Movietoons Presents color VHS [8/95] for $17.99
		"DuckTales" animated TV series II [Disney XD/Disney Channel 2017-2021] 69 total episodes: Season 1 = 23 episodes, Season 2 = 24 episodes, Season 3 = 23/25 episodes, Season 4 = 24 episodes Multiple directors, multiple writers; voices of Alan Young {as Scrooge McDuck}, Ben Schwartz {as Dewey}, Danny Pudi {as Huey}, Bobby Moynihan {as Louie}, Kate Micucci {as Webby Vanderquack}, Beck Bennett {as Launchpad McQuack}, Keith Ferguson {as Flintheart Glomgold}, Tony Anselmo {as Donald Duck}, Toks Olagundoye {as Mrs. Beakley}, Paget Brewster {as Della Duck}, Eric Bauza {as Big Time Beagle}, Jim Rash {as Gyro Gearloose}, April Winchell {as Black Heron}, David Kaye{as Duckworth}, Catherine Tate {as Magica De Spell}, Margo Martindale {as Ma Beagle}, Paul F. Tompkins {as Gladstone Gander}, John Gemberling {as Doofus Drake}, Corey Burton {as Lud-wig Von Drake}, Jim Cummings {as Darkwing Duck}, Kimberly Brooks {as Peg Leg Meg}, Tress MacNeille {as Daisy Duck}, Bernardo De Paula {as José Carioca}, Graham McTavish {as Fergus McDuck}, Don Cheadle {as Donald Duck/Barksian Modulator} series II credits at IMDb • series II entry at Wikipedia • Wikipedia's list of series II episodes series II DVD/Blu-ray not available • watch 3/2017 series II official trailer [1:41] online at YouTube
		"Disney DuckTales Collection" 4-Pack on DVD [2019] all 70 episodes of Series I plus the 1990 feature film Walt Disney TV Animation color DVD set [1/2019] 10 disks for $18.99

		"The Art of DuckTales (Deluxe Edition)" [2022] by Ken Plume slipcover set of gold-gilded main book, an exclusive "DuckTales Guidebook" that contains expanded versions of the interviews, and a finely-crafted replica of Scrooge’s Number One Dime! Dark Horse Books 14½x10½ hardcover set [11/2022] 2 books for $56.78
		"Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Diamond Jubilee Collection" [2022] by Carl Barks 18 comic book adventure stories are included in 384 pages, supported by full-color covers, posters, and paintings by famed Disney artists: "The Old Castle’s Secret", "The Sunken Yacht", "Letter To Santa", "The Big Bin On Killmotor Hill", "Statuesque Spendthrifts", "Back To The Klondike", "The Secret of Atlantis", "The Fabulous Philosopher’s Stone", "The Twenty-Four Carat Moon", "The Prize of Pizarro", "The Money Champ", "Hound of The Whiskervilles", "For Old Dime’s Sake", "The Giant Robot Robberies", "North of The Yukon", "Horsing Around With History", "The Duck Who Came To Dinner", "Watt An Occasion" Kindle Edition from Fantagraphics [11/2022] for $69.99 Fantagraphics 13½x10 hardcover [11/2022] for $78.99

Other Fictional Oligarchs & Tycoons

fictional character Doc Savage [since 1933]
first appeared in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s; real name Clark Savage, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage

fictional inventor-adventurer Tom Swift [since 1910]
"Tom Swift" [2022] /tt13475676/
Tom is a billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking
disappearance of his father. Stars: Tian Richards, Ashleigh Murray, Marquise Vilson, Albert Mwangi

Other Oligarchs & Tycoons - Past & Present
in alphabetical order: A thru F { just below } • G thru M • N thru S • T thru Z

There are 813 billionaires in the U.S.A. (10/2024)

billionaire Bill Ackman [born 1966] lives in Manhattan, NYC
CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management [est. 2003] & investment fund Pershing Square Holdings; chairman of Howard Hughes Corp.;
board member of music giant Universal Music Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ackman

Philip Anschutz [born 1939]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz

Marc Benioff [born 1964] - lives in San Francisco, California
co-founder of software company Salesforce [est. 1999]; bought the ailing TIME Magazine for $190 million in 2018 from the media conglomerate Meredith Corp.,
which owned the magazine for less than a year; 11/2024 reportedly in talks to sell TIME Magazine for $150 million Greek media company Antenna Group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff

Richard Branson [born 1950]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson
"The Rebel Billionaire: Branson's Quest For The Best" (2004– )
Stars: Heather Maclean, Gabriel Baldinucci, Richard Branson, Sara Blakely
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412106/
"Billionaire's Paradise: Inside Necker Island" (2015) /tt4353826/ Director: Kari Lia |
one of the most exclusive holiday destinations in the world - Necker Island; stars: Richard Branson, Maxine Peake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_Island_(British_Virgin_Islands)

Scottish-American industrialist & philanthropist Andrew Carnegie [1835-1919]
one of the richest Americans in history; famous for building domed libraries across America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

Mark Cuban [born 1958]
"The Benefactor" (2004) 60 min | reality-TV Star: Mark Cuban /tt0410964/

telecom and media tycoon Patrick Drahi [b. 1963] of France
chairman of Altice and Altice USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Drahi

Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn [born 1993]
A descendant of Friedrich Engelhorn, who founded the German pharmaceutical giant BASF; she inherited a fortune when her grandmother
Traudl Engelhorn-Vechiatto died in 2022; the fortune was estimated by Forbes Magazine at $4.2bn (£3.3bn; €3.8bn).
Marlene has protested Austria's 2008 cancellation of the inheritence tax, announcing plans to give away 90% of her fortune. She established Guter Rat
(The Good Council for Redistribution) which is designed to give away €25M (US$27M), advised by a randomly-chosen panel of 50 citizens.
official website • entry at Wikipedia {empty}

multi-millionaire sex offenderJeffrey Epstein [1953-2019]
Jeffrey Epstein Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

"Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich - Money. Power. Corruption." documentary [Radical Media/Netflix Original May 2020] 4-episode documentary TV mini-series; survivors reveal the manipulation, abuse, and emotional scars suffered at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, exposing a sex-trafficking ring of powerful enablers leading up to Epstein's 2019 arrest • Co-produced by Joe Berlinger and many others; co-produced & directed by Lisa Bryant; based on the 2016 book by co-producer James Patterson; featuring James Patterson, Michael Reiter (Palm Beach Police Dept), attorney Alan Dershowitz, attorney Brad Edwards, journalist Jane Musgrave, journalist Tim Malloy, investigator Mike Fisten, attorney Sigrid McCawley, journalist Vicky Ward, Marc Fisher (The Washington Post), TV journalist Shannon Cake, Steve Scully, Charles Gasparino (Fox Business Network), author-columnist Carl Hiaasen, author Michael Tennenbaum, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of VA, Kathryn Stamoulis, Gordon Ackley, Michael Gauger (Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office), editor Bob Fitrakis, journalist Tim Feran, Steven Hoffenberg, actress Alicia Arden, Cyril H. Wecht, attorney Spencer Kuvin, attorney Jack Scarola, and survivors Annie Farmer, Shawna Rivera, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Courtney Wild, Maria Farmer, Michelle Licata, Haley Robson, Sarah Ransome, Chauntae Davies full credits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia DVD/Blu-ray/Prime Video not available • watch 5/2020 official trailer [2:20] online at YouTube

"The Dead and The Voiceless" [in development 2023] /tt16741824/
The child-sex crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are investigated by Gary Revel and Elisha Petrucci; action/thriller spills out from
Hollywood-California, Florida, New York, New Mexico, and a remote island. Stars: Cody Cowell, Dean Phillippi Sr., John Vanis II, Jeff Joslin

GOP megadonor Sean M. Fieler [b. 1972?] - lives in Stamford, Connecticut
hedgefund manager tied to Leonard Leo; main issue is anti-abortion; leads the American Principles Project [est. 2009]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Fieler

former serial entrepreneur Dariel Garner [born 1950]
no entry found at Wikipedia (2024); no entry at IMDb
Live Share Grow [] was initiated by Dariel Garner, Rivera Sun & Chuck Collins

"Billionaire Buddha" novel [2015] by Rivera Sun Afterwords by Chuck Collins, Dariel Garner & Rivera Sun Fictionalized account of Garner's success and spiritual transformation; author also wrote "The Dandelion Insurrection" series books Kindle Edition from Rising Sun Press Works [10/2015] for $8.99 Rising Sun Press Works 8½x5½ pb [2/2015] for $19.95

oil tycoon J. Paul Getty [1892-1976] - at one time the richest man in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty

singer-actress & cosmetics mogul Selena Gomez [b. 1992]
officially one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the US, per Bloomberg (9/2024); mostly thanks to her beauty empire: over 80% of Gomez’s $1.3 billion net worth comes from her majority stake in Rare Beauty, the $2 billion mid-priced makeup company that she founded five years ago. Rare Beauty now generates more revenue than Jessica Alba’s and Lady Gaga’s cosmetics brands; Gomez is the third-most-followed person on Instagram. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_Gomez

Wall Street financier Hetty Green [1834-1916] - known as 'the richest woman in America'
born Henrietta Howland Robinson in New Bedford, Massachusetts; estimates of her net worth ranged from $100 million to $200 million
(equivalent to $2.69B to $5.38B in 2023) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetty_Green

auto loan billionaire Don Hankey [b. 1943]
Knight Specialty Insurance Co.,
underwrote Donald Trump's $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hankey

Stephen J. Hemsley [b. 1952]
joined UnitedHealth Group in 1997; former CEO, 2006-2017; appointed executive chairman of the board 8/2017; 2024 estimated net worth is $1.04B
in February 2024, the Department of Justice notified UnitedHealth that they are investigating Hemsley and other UnitedHealth executives for selling $102 million
in company stock months before a federal antitrust probe that began in October 2023 became public (per Bloomberg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Hemsley

Jensen Huang [b. 1963]
co-founder and CEO of chip maker Nvidia [est. 4/1993], whose net worth ballooned to $41B alongside tech’s AI boom and added him to the Top 20

billionaire aviator Howard Hughes [1905-76]
Howard Hughes Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
"Untel" biopic [filming in 2023] /tt22871474/
More invisible than the Yeti, more mysterious than the Loch Ness monster, stranger than the Bermuda Triangle: Howard Hughes;
biopic investigates the last 25 years of his life. Director: Olivier Dutel | Star: Emi Combet

hip-hop star Jay-Z [born 1969 as Shawn Corey Carter]
entry at Wikipedia
"Jay-Z: Ultimate Hustle" [] /tt28117884/
It was hardly predictable that the boy from the Brooklyn projects became the world's first billionaire hip-hop star Jay-Z.
He turned his pain into passion and used the suffering to influence the words and lyrics in his music.

longevity evangelist Bryan Johnson [born 1977]
sold Braintree/Venmo, a company that he had started, to PayPal for $800M in 2013
entry at Wikipedia

British billionaire Joe Lewis [b. 1937]
According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2023, Lewis has a net worth of £5.096 billion, an increase of £811 million from 2022.

2024 Jan 24: Billionaire investor Joe Lewis pleaded guilty to insider trading - to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and two counts of securities fraud. Prosecutors claim he tipped off girlfriends & staff, including his pilots, to nonpublic info about companies that he had invested in; the 86-year-old has been out on bail with a 322-foot yacht and a private plane as collateral; he faces up to 45 years in prison but is likely to be sentenced to less.

Afro-American Wall Street titan Reginald F. Lewis [1942-93]
entry at Wikipedia
Untitled Reginald F. Lewis Project /tt2094191/ Director: Thomas Carter
biopic of Wall Street titan Reginald Lewis who was the world's first Afro-American to own a billion dollar empire

British entrepreneur Michael Richard 'Mike' Lynch [1965-2024]
Estimated net worth in late 2023 was £852M ($1.127B); after his acquittal on charges of fraud in San Francisco, he and 21 others celebrated on his superyacht Bayesian near Sicily; a freak waterspout sank the yacht around 4am on 19 August 2024; 15 people were rescued, and seven were missing; the missing bodies, including Lynch and his daughter Hannah, were recovered; Italian authorities are considering manslaughter charges against the captain, who survived.
entry at Wikipedia

media mogul John C. Malone [born 1941]
entry at Wikipedia

GOP megadonor Bernard 'Bernie' Marcus [1929-2024]
co-founder of Home Depot [est. 1978]; chair 1978-2002, CEO 1978-1997
entry at Wikipedia

music legend Paul McCartney [born 1942]
Paul McCartney's net worth is £1 billion ($1.27 billion), according to the annual Sunday Times Rich List (5/2024), making the former Beatle the U.K.’s first billionaire musician;
octogenarian McCartney and his wife, Nancy Shevell, just joined the club this year thanks to a £50 million jump in their net worth that came from his Got Back tour, his iconic
back catalog growing in value, and Beyoncé’s cover of the song "Blackbird".
entry at Wikipedia

Wall Street banker J.P. Morgan [1837-1913]
banker J.P. Morgan [1837-1913] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

media mogul Rupert Murdoch [born 1931 in Australia] has a net worth of about $8.3 billion (2023)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
son media mogul Lachlan Murdoch [born 1971 in London, UK] was made CEO of Fox News in 2019
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch
News Corp. Section on 20th-Century Fox Page at Magic Lantern

mysterious visionary pseudo-identity Satoshi Nakamoto [b. 1975?] of Japan
published the seminal 'white paper' that introduced Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology in October 2008; became the
15th-wealthiest person in the world; ended direct involvement in mid-2010; current net worth is $30.14 billion, ranking in the 40s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
more info on Spirit of America Bookstore's Cryptocurrency Pages

shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis [1906-75] of Greece

"Onassis: The Richest Man In The World" TV movie [1988]
the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy marriages.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Raul Julia, Jane Seymour, Anthony Quinn, Francesca Annis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095780/

activist investor Nelson Peltz [b. 1942]
per Forbes Magazine, Peltz had a net worth of $1.51 billion as of February 2017, which made him the 432nd-richest person in the U.S. As of October 2021,
his net worth was estimated at US$1.7 billion. Heads Trian Fund Management. His recent proxy battles include the boards of Proctor & Gamble and of Disney.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Peltz

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens [1928-2019]
as-of November 2016, Pickens had a net worth of $500 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickens

Irish billionaire Seán Quinn [born 1947]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_Quinn
"Quinn Country" (2022) /tt25041044/
The rise and fall of Irish billionaire Sean Quinn and the Quinn business empire; stars: Colm Tóibín, Fintan O'Toole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_family

oil tycoon William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. [1810-1906]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rockefeller_Sr.

Standard Oil co-founder William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. [1841-1922]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rockefeller_Jr.

Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. [1839-1937]
widely considered the wealthiest American of all time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller

real estate tycoon John D. Rockefeller, Jr. [1874-1960]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller_Jr.

philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III [1906-78]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller_III

politician Nelson Rockefeller [1908-79]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller

author J.K. Rowling, OBE [born 1965], creator of the "Harry Potter" franchise
wealthiest woman in the U.K. - worth more than Queen Elizabeth or King Charles III
The 2021 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £820 million (after donating millions to charity)

comedian Jerry Seinfeld
According to Bloomberg, Jerry has a net worth of more than $1 billion, thanks in large part to the ~$465 million he’s made off syndication deals for his eponymous sitcom,
the $94 million he got from a streaming deal with Netflix, and the $100 million he’s raked in from touring since the 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld hit TV sitcom [1989-1998]

Dharmesh Shah [born 1967]
co-founder and CTO of software & services provider HubSpot [est. 2006]; bought the chat.com domain for $15.5 million in 2023;
recently sold the domain to OpenAI, 'largely paid in the form of OpenAI stock'
no entry at Wikipedia (11/2024)

music legend Bruce 'The Boss' Springsteen
became a billionaire in July 2024, per Forbes

American singer-songwriter Taylor Alison Swift [born 1989]
net fortune estimated June 2023 by Forbes Magazine at $740 million; Swift's total net worth is now $1.1 billion (10/26/2023),
thanks to a record-breaking Eras tour, per Bloomberg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift

loser Donald Trump [born 1946]
the former president’s fortune dropped from an estimated $3.2 billion (Fall 2022] to $2.5 billion (4/2023)

cable tycoon & rancher Ted Turner [born 1938]

Vatican City [est. 1929] & The Pope   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope
Bankers' best guesses about the Vatican's wealth put it at $10 to $15 billion; financial statements for 2021 reveal that it had €3.9 billion in total assets
(that's almost US$5 billion) — all such numbers are guesswork from outside.

various oligarchs of India

"Bad Boy Billionaires: India" (2020– ) /tt12923630/
investigative docuseries explores the greed, fraud, and corruption that built up - and ultimately brought down -
India's most infamous tycoons. Star: Aayush Ailawadi

Mukesh Ambani [born 1957] is richest person in Asia
chair of Reliance Industries, a Fortune 500 company with interests in telecommunications & energy
& other businesses; estimated net worth of $113 billion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukesh_Ambani

billionaire Ratan Tata [1937-2024] of India
his legacy lives on in almost every household in the country: pantry staples, electric vehicles, jewelry, satellite dishes, and more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata

various oligarchs of Russia
"Russian Godfathers" (2005 TV Movie) /tt0811050/
BBC documentary series examines the relationship between Russia's richest men and Putin's administration in the Kremlin; the series follows each
one in turn to find ... Director: Patrick Forbes | Stars: Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Roman Abramovich
"Khodorkovsky" (2011) /tt1733525/
Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that
he will be imprisoned, once ... Director: Cyril Tuschi | Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Pavel Khodorkovsky, Marina Khodorkovskaya, Lena Khodorkovskaya
"Citizen K" (2019) /tt10703826/
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison,
and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement. Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky

TV tycoon Oprah Winfrey [born 1954]
ranked #1217 by Forbes Magazine, estimated wealth $2.5 billion
The Promised Land estate in California - worth $88 million is owned by Oprah Winfrey

libertarian stock trader Jeffrey S. 'Jeff' Yass [b. 1956] - the richest person in Pennsylvania
registered Libertarian, priority issue is school vouchers; net worth of $27.6 billion in 2024, per Forbes
co-founder of Susquehanna International Group [est. 1987]
in 2002, Yass joined the executive advisory council of the right-wing Cato Institute [1977]
co-founder & managing director of the Philadelphia-based trading & technology firm Susquehanna International Group (SIG)
and a major investor in TikTok (circa 2012) and in Trump Social (2024)
secretive libertarian Pennsylvania money manager who donated more than $46 million to conservative causes and political action committees in 2024, including $16 million
to the P.A.C. operated by the anti-tax, anti-regulation Club for Growth, and $10 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super P.A.C. dedicated to electing Republicans
to the House of Representatives; his pet cause is so-called school choice programs that strip funding from public schools and use taxpayer dollars to send students to
private and charter schools. In 2023, the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans ranked Yass in 28th place with a net worth of $28.9 billion.
major investor in Bytedance [est. 2012], the Chinese parent company of TikTok [released 2017-18]
Yass formed shell company Digital World Trading Co. [est. 12/2020] and merged it with Trump's Truth Social, which was final in 3/2024.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Yass

Chinese billionaire Zhang Yiming [b. 1983] - the richest person in China
ByteDance founder [est. 2012] & TikTok [released 2016-2018] co-founder is now worth nearly $50 billion (10/2024)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yiming

Top Landowners in the U.S.A.
ranked list from M.S.N. Money 11/2017

Zinc Farms (over 20,000 farmable acres) - worth $17 million
Gustav Zinc was a German immigrant and homesteader who laid claim to land in North Dakota in 1888; since then, his family has continued to farm
and to amass an incredible amount of farmland, making their real estate the most expensive in the state.

The Old Frick Estate’s New 'Stone Mansion' - worth $56 million
This house sits just 8 miles from New York City, in one of the most expensive zip codes in the City; the 'Frick property' is named after steel magnate
and CEO of Carnegie Steel, Henry Clay Frick; he was an avid art lover, and left the Frick Collection in Manhattan for all to view.

Aspen [Colorado] Extreme Mansion - worth $89.9 million
owned by Bill Koch of the world-famous oil billionaires The Koch Brothers

#30 Nunley Brothers Ranches: 301,500 acres
Texas cattleman 'Red' Nunley [1910-71] was a legend in the Lone Star State; he set up his ranching operation in the Sabinal area during the early 1950s and worked with Dolph Briscoe, Sr. to develop his Santa Gertrudis herd; today, the vast Nunley Brothers operation, which covers parts of southwest Texas and southeast New Mexico, is run by Red's grandsons Richard and Bob.

#29 Collins Family: 311,395 acres
The Collins family has been in the timber business for five generations and its stewardship of huge swathes of forest in California, Oregon and Pennsylvania predates
the American Civil War. The family are renowned for developing sustainable forestry techniques that have been adopted by the lumber industry nationwide.

#28 Longfellow Ranch: 384,000 acres
Billionaire energy entrepreneur Malone Mitchell III made his money finding, acquiring, and selling natural gas and oil fields in his home state of Texas; he invested a sizeable chunk of his fortune in his ranch in southwest Texas; the Big Bend region ranch is home to thousands of elk and mule deer and is considered one of America's finest hunting grounds.

#27 Hughes Family: 390,000 acres
Texas native Dan Allen Hughes, Sr. [-2016] accumulated a billion-dollar fortune in natural gas & oil, and pumped some of
his fortune into the family ranch, which is currently owned & operated by his son, Dan Allen Hughes, Jr.

#26 Holding Family: 400,000 acres
The late Robert Earl Holding [] had interests in transportation, energy, and hotels; he developed an enviable portfolio of real estate in Utah & Idaho, as well as an immense cattle ranch, which covers large tracts of land in southern Montana and northern Wyoming. The multi-million-dollar operation is currently run by Holding's widow, Carol, and their three children.

#25 Jeff Bezos: 400,000 acres
Amazon, Inc. boss Jeff Bezos has his fingers in many pies, and his ownership of massive expanses of land in West Texas makes him one of America's principal private
landowners; the land was acquired by Bezos' Blue Origin aerospace company and serves as the firm's base of operations, launch pad, and testing site.

#24 McDonald Family: 410,500 acres
The McDonald family is based in the town of Mountain Brook, Alabama and owns tens of thousands of acres in Alabama & Florida;
but its main holding, which has expanded significantly in recent years to 310,000 acres, is in the state of Maine.

#23 Drummond Family: 433,000 acres
The Drummond family go way back as major landowners in Oklahoma & Kansas; Scottish immigrant Frederick Drummond [] established the family's
cattle ranch during the late 19th Century and his three sons expanded the family ranching operation during the early part of the 20th Century.

#22 Philip Anschutz: 434,500 acres
Entrepreneur & investor Philip Anschutz has a net worth of $12.5 billion and started accumulating enormous tracts of oil-rich land in several
Western states during the early 1970s; recently, he is developing the largest wind farm in North America.

#21 Fisher Family: 440,000 acres
Doris Fisher and her late husband Donald founded The Gap clothing stores in 1969; they quietly snapped up hundreds of thousands of acres of land in California since the 1970s.
Doris and her children, who are each worth billions, now control a massive sustainable forestry business and have pledged to harvest just 2 percent of their acreage a year.

#20 Simplot Family: 443,091 acres
Potato tycoon John Richard Simplot [-2008] founded his eponymous vegetable firm in 1929 and made a fortune supplying frozen French fries to McDonald's during the 1970s.
Simplot's children and grandchildren own 15 ranches in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah, and more than 30 irrigated farms in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada.

#19 Westervelt Family: 477,000 acres
The family-owned Westervelt Company has been in business for an impressive 140 years; the firm was established in 1884 by Herbert Westervelt [] as the
Prairie States Paper Corporation and is one of America's leading forested land resource organizations, with holdings in five U.S. states.

#18 Stimson Family: 500,000 acres
The Stimson Lumber Company was established before the Civil War, and the clan now controls an ever-expanding portfolio of forested land
in Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington State.

#17 Donald R. Horton: 503,000 acres
America's largest home builder D.R. Horton was founded by Donald Horton more than 35 years ago; over the years, the firm's founder has been busily acquiring
colossal swathes of land in the southwest of the U.S.; in the past couple of years alone, the construction tycoon has added 131,195 acres to his bulging portfolio.

#16 Martin Family: 570,000 acres
The Martin family is carrying on the work started by the late Roy O. Martin, Jr., who massively expanded the timber firm set up by his father; the ever-expanding
lumber firm in America's Deep South is now headed by grandson Roy O. Martin III.

#15 O’Connor Family: 580,000 acres
clan patriarch Thomas O'Connor [] - dubbed 'The Texas Cattle King' - lucked out big time when he was granted 4,428 acres of land in Victoria County, Texas back in 1834;
over the years, the Irish immigrant's descendants have expanded the family's holdings, adding 80,000 acres in the past two years (2017).

#14 Lykes Family: 615,000 acres
Starting small, Dr. Howell Lykes [] shut down his medical surgery in the 1870s and moved to Florida to take over his family's modest 500-acre ranch; today,
the doctor's heirs control land in the Sunshine State and Texas devoted to citrus farming, sugar cane cultivation, and cattle ranching.

#13 Ford Family: 625,000 acres
Ford family patriarch Kenneth Ford [] came from humble beginnings and started out by establishing a small sawmill in Roseburg, Oregon back in 1936.
Fast-forward to 2017 and Ford's descendants own vast forest lands in western Oregon and northern California.

#12 Briscoe Family: 640,000 acres
The Briscoe family are Texas royalty, boasting several illustrious ancestors who played a key part in the history of the Lone Star State, including Andrew Briscoe [1810-49],
a signatory of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and Dolph Briscoe, Jr. [1923-2010], a former governor of the state; today, their descendants control an ever-expanding
portfolio of land in South Texas.

#11 Wilks Brothers: 672,000 acres
Former bricklayers Dan and Farris Wilks got into fracking in 2002 and cashed-in from the growth of the industry during the 2000s, making their first billion dollars
by 2011; the brothers have invested a sizeable chunk of their fortune in land in Texas and Montana. In the past two years (2017), an additional
172,000 acres have been added to their portfolio.

#10 Pingree Family: 830,000 acres
Shipping magnate David Pingree [] started acquiring land in the state of Maine over 150 years ago, and built up a portfolio of almost a million acres
in the Pine Tree State, Texas, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New Hampshire.

#9 King Ranch: 911,215 acres
King Ranch is located between Corpus Christi and Brownsville and is the largest ranch in Texas; the gargantuan operation was founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King [] and Gideon K. Lewis [], and their heirs still control the ranch, which comprises ranching, farming, and hunting, as well as gas & oil operations.

#8 Brad Kelley: 1 million acres
Brad Kelley has a net worth of $2.2 billion, mostly derived from tobacco; he sold his Commonwealth Brands company in 2001 for $1 billion; the reclusive cigarette tycoon, who ironically has never smoked, owns a cool one million acres of ranching land in Texas, Florida, and New Mexico.

#7 Singleton Family: 1.1 million acres
Henry Earl Singleton [1916-99], co-founder of conglomerate Teledyne Technologies, bought the venerable San Cristobel Ranch near Sante Fe in New Mexico in 1986
and went on to acquire numerous other ranches; the holdings in New Mexico and California were inherited by his five children.

#6 Irving Family: 1.246 million acres
The Irving Family of Canada control a giant tract of forested land in northern Maine, which it harvests sustainably under the Forest Stewardship Council
program; they also own two million acres in Canada.

#5 Reed Family: 1.37 million acres
The Reed family's Green Diamond Resource Co. dates back to 1890 and owns land across California, Oregon, and Washington; the company is all about
sustainable forestry and conservation, and harvest less than 2% of their timberlands a year.

#4 Stan Kroenke: 1.38 million acres
Said to have a net worth of $7.4 billion, sports and real estate mogul Stan Kroenke established himself as America's fourth-biggest landowner in recent years.
In 2016, he acquired the historic Waggoner Ranch in Texas for an estimated $725 million. He purchased Broken O Ranch in Montana (124,000 acres
worth ~$132.5 million) for an undisclosed price; he also owns sports teams like the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and the NFL’s St. Louis Rams.

#3 Emmerson Family: 1.95 million acres
The Emmerson family runs Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI), America's second-largest lumber producer and the largest private landowner in California;
the family owns forested land in the Golden State and Washington, as well as 14 sawmills scattered over the two states.

#2 media mogul Ted Turner: 2 million-plus acres
C.N.N. founder Ted Turner, who is worth $2.3 billion, controls land across the U.S. that is largely devoted to eco-friendly bison ranching to supply
his Ted's Montana Grill chain of bison meat restaurants; in fact, Turner has amassed the largest bison herd on the planet.

#1 John C. Malone: 2.2 million acres
Liberty Media chairman John Malone surpassed fellow media mogul Ted Turner in 2011 to take the number one U.S. landowner spot; today, Malone is worth
$7.2 billion and controls mammoth tracts of forested land in Maine, as well as ranches in Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Malone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Media

Works About Oligarchy
search for books on keyword 'oligarchy' {returns 900+ titles} at Amazon

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		"Oligarchy: Illustrated Edition" textbook [2011] by Jeffrey A. Winters Cases studied in this book include the United States, ancient Athens and Rome, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, medieval Venice & Siena, mafia commissions in the U.S. & Italy, feuding Appalachian families, and early chiefs cum oligarchs dating from 2300 BCE Kindle Edition from Cambridge Univ Press [4/2011] for $23.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [4/2011] for $29.75 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2011] overpriced !
		"Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History" [2017] by Matthew Simonton The first full-length study of Greek oligarchy as a regime type in more than a century; book establishes for the first time how oligarchies maintained power in the face of potential citizen resistance, arguing that oligarchs designed distinctive political institutions - such as intra-oligarchic power sharing, targeted repression, and rewards for informants - to prevent collective action among the majority population while sustaining cooperation within their own ranks Kindle Edition from Princeton Univ Press [6/2017] for $38.47 {sic} Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6pb [3/2019] for $40.49 Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2017] out of print/used
		'American Oligarchy' Special Issue from Mother Jones Magazine, Jan-Feb 2024 articles written by Ali Breland, Oliver Bullough, David Corn, Dave Gilson, Scaachi Koul, Hannah Levintovah, Michael Mechanic, Casey Michel, Tim Murphy, Daniel Schulman, Kalena Thomhave, Abby Vesoulis • not yet listed on Amazon 'American Oligarchy' Special Issue - Table of Contents read the 'American Oligarchy' Special Issue online

Movies, Plays, Other Media
The attempt to search Internet Movie Database on keywords 'oligarch' {46 results} and 'oligarchy' {54 results} and 'billionaire' {550+ results}
produced very little that is even remotely usable on this page.

"Confidential Report" (1955) /tt0048393/
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape.
Director & star Orson Welles [1915-85]; also stars Peter van Eyck, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina

"Mr. Billion" (1977) /tt0076417/
When an American billionaire dies, his poor Italian nephew inherits everything, provided that he can arrive in the USA to claim his inheritance before the deadline -
but the corporate lawyer-executor tries to steal the inheritance. Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason, Slim Pickens

"Chairman of The Board" (1997) /tt0118836/
A surfer becomes the head of a major company. Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller, Raquel Welch

"Born Rich" (2003)
A documentary on children of the insanely rich. Directed by one of their own, Johnson & Johnson heir Jamie Johnson.
Stars: Ivanka Trump, Georgina Bloomberg, Si Newhouse IV, Luke Weil

"The One Percent" (2006) /tt0819791/
In this hard-hitting but humorous documentary, director Jamie Johnson takes the exploration of wealth that he began in "Born Rich" one step further
Stars Nicole Buffet, Chuck Collins, Steve Forbes, Cody Franchetti

"Park Avenue: Money, Power and The American Dream" (2012) /tt2460426/
Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent
of the population. Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Paul Piff, Anne Rueth, Colin Dunkley

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