An eternal wanderer and worth some £985 million ($1.56 billion), art collector and founder of the Berggruen Holdings, Inc. fund of hedge funds Nicolas Berggruen prefers to live in five-star hotels despite owning homes in Los Angeles and New York. He is also the co-founder with Arianna Huffington of The World Post and a member of the international councils of the Tate Museum, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Berggruen tells his Twitter followers that he is “a believer that ideas can make a better world”. Most surprisingly given this dynamo’s mammoth success, there are just 700 of them.
Two stories to keep beside you
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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Has anyone see the gorgeous women that occupy some of thos brothels! Oops sorry! I ment to say Hotels?! Ment