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12 Interesting Facts About Billionaires


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5. The Most Luxurious Places for Living

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In Manhattan, there is a world class luxurious and powerful residential area that is home to an elite class of individuals. There are a couple of billionaires who live in 740 Park.

This list includes he founder of Blackstone, Steve Schwarzman, who lives in the best triplex worth $ 30 million. The luxurious house was once home to the world’s first billionaire. Ronald Lauder also calls 740 Park home. The influential cosmetics merchandise heir lived in a duplex was considered the best spot in the entire building. Unfortunately, he moved out in 2010 after a bitter split with his wife. The other famously rich to inhabit the building are Hedge fund billionaires, Charles Stevenson and David Ganek. The former owns a $9 million apartment and sits on the co-op board. The latter owned a $19 million duplex previously occupied by ITT chairman Rand Araskog in the year 2005. However, David had his hedge fund liquidated after an unexpected FBI raid. The above business magnates are mostly in the finance sector but there is one billionaire who lives in 740 Park and whose wealth is not in the finance industry. Fashion designer Vera Wang paid for her father’s $23.1 million apartment in the same building after he died in the year 2007. Those are some of the influential people in the business world who refer to the elite 740 park as home and it is quite evident that it has housed the who is who especially in its native New York city which has the highest number of billionaires.

6. The Second City that has the Most Billionaires in the World

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Asia as a continent does not have many billionaires but there is a city by the name Hong Kong that has 75 billionaires residing there. It is the second city after New York to have a large number of billionaires.

7. The Richest Criminal in the World

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In the 90’s there existed a notorious drug kingpin by the name Pablo Escobar. He was a Colombian by origin and he mastered the trade in his native Colombia before setting out to the United States where he became a household name. In his heyday, he made so much money that he spent $2,500 each month on rubber bands used to bundle up his cash stacks. Annually, he lost 10% of his earnings to spoilage and due to rodents and moisture destroying the vast cash reserves in his warehouses. When he was in hiding, he used to burn up dollar notes to keep his sick daughter warm.

8. How Wealthy Henry Ford Would be today?

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Henry Ford is the founder of the Ford motor company. He became a billionaire in the year 1920. In today’s monetary terms and putting into consideration the Gross Domestic Product and inflation, Henry Ford would be worth a whopping $194 billion. This figure would comfortably place him as the 7th richest person in the world.


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