Massachusetts born and Boston based billionaire businessman Herb Chambers loves fast cars and mammoth yachts. He made his fortune after leaving the United States Navy to set up a firm fixing copy machines door-to-door named A-Copy America and eventually sold out for some $80 million. After having a bad experience whilst trying to buy a Cadillac, he bought the dealership and now has a portfolio of 55 car showrooms in the Boston area. Chambers’ personal collection includes a 1973 Ferrari Daytona Spyder convertible and a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL.
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Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)
Worth some £5 billion, Leslie Wexner has been described as “very shy” and “certainly not the showing off type of American”.
Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)
“The greatest miser” and “richest woman in America” during the Gilded Age, Hetty Green lived by the rule of “buy cheap and sell dear.” Known for her appalling personal hygiene and ragged dresses, Green inherited £4.5 million or the equivalent of £555 million today ($729 million, €651 million or درهم2.6 billion today) in 1865 from […]
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He’s certainly got a motor of three!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His kettle is a tad understated