Surprisingly, Mackenzie Scott is not the richest woman in the world, even after getting 25% of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon shares in the divorce settlement.
Made in 2015, Musk acquired Gulfstream’s flagship plane, the G650ER, in 2016.
Despite the global economy suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic and now the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a few lucky billionaires have added substantially to their wealth.
Approximately a quarter of the 2 668 billionaires on this year’s Forbes billionaires list live in just 10 cities.
The $100 billion club is one of the most elite clubs in the world and has just welcomed a new member.
Despite what has been previously reported, the idea is not so much about making immortality a thing and more about staving off the inevitable disease of ageing.
A majority of the 25 highest-paid entertainers earned a combined $4,4 billion (before taxes and fees) without creating anything new.
The former first lady of Amazon is clearly a far more charitable person than her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos.
Many of the country’s wealthiest citizens watched their net worths soar over the past 12 months, despite the economic havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elon Musk’s latest hairdo has resulted in intense Twitter meme fodder, most notably surrounding what some have dubbed “Big Mid-Life Crisis Energy”.
Elon Musk has been busy folliwing his announcement on Twitter to offload “almost all physical possessions”.
Having been ranked 309th on the world billionaire list back in 2018, the former Glencore CEO is now making waves down under.
Model and artist Ivy Getty, heiress to the Getty family oil fortune, created an opulent dream wedding straight from the books of her late grandmother.
The youngest billionaire on the Forbes 400 list, which ranks the richest 400 Americans, is 29 and wears shorts to work.
In a Twitter thread from Sunday, Musk said that he might be willing to consider a proposal from the United Nations to alleviate world hunger.
In order to help billionaire wannabe astronauts decide if it is worth wasting millions on an actual flight to space, a French hotelier has set up a way to give them a taste.
Elon Musk is angling to be a part of the ‘homeless billionaires’ club, a rare group of super-high net worth individuals who are shedding it all.
The “absolute desire for glamour” among the world’s wealthiest has been likened to the sort of thing one would see during the Roaring Twenties, with private jets added to the equation.
Three of the world’s wealthiest people are trying to top each other with the most ambitious private space expeditions.
There are four South Africans on the UK Sunday Times 2021 Rich List, with three claiming spots in the top 100.
Travelling alongside a crew of five, Branson went just a little over 80 kilometres above Earth, reached suborbital space for a few seconds, and bested his billionaire rivals.
The co-founders of Robinhood, an app for trading stocks without commission, are already billionaires, and are in line for another massive payday soon.
Those with money to splurge are buying gadgets designed to lift the rider out of the water, without much skill needed to pull it off.
What the richest of the rich have been spending their money on during the lockdown periods is pretty out there.
Forbes’ latest list calculates that the richest 50 clans are worth a collective $1,2 trillion, which is up about 30% from $916 billion in 2015. These are the top five.
Austin Russell is the world’s wealthiest and youngest self-made tech mogul, taking the world of self-driving cars by storm.
Over the past two decades, the list of the 10 richest people on the planet has undergone a serious shift. This video plots the rise and rise of some of today’s household names.
Forbes’ latest billionaire report lists 10 billionaires younger than 30, although only four are self-made.
At one stage, Forbes declared Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s longtime former president, the richest woman in Africa.
Superyachts typically fall into the realm of the billionaire, but all hope is not lost for the measly millionaire who wants a shiny new sea toy.