Word: moguling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...satellite dishes, a fleet of imported cars and a bevy of female retainers he had attracted by answering personal ads and trolling the Internet. In his $3 million residence and the adjacent $2.6 million house, both paid for in cash, Frankel had accumulated all the trappings of a depraved mogul. But everything--the women, the houses, the computers, the jet and six-figure shopping sprees, even the riding crop and bondage videos--would turn out to be illicitly funded by an elegantly complex scheme reflective of Frankel's flawed brilliance and bizarre character. "He was the best I've ever...
DIED. FRED TRUMP, 93, entrepreneurial builder and father of mogul Donald Trump--who credits much of his success to his dad; in New Hyde Park, N.Y. The elder Trump began his career in the 1920s selling one-family homes, later moving on to lucrative New York City high rises...
...celebrated rapper, producer, philanthropist and party-giver-and-goer extraordinaire, Sean ("Puffy") Combs is used to being the center of attention. But the eyes of the music world will be on him for another reason this week: on Thursday the multimillionaire hip-hop mogul is scheduled to appear in a New York State criminal courtroom to face felony charges for assault. In April he and two bodyguards invaded the office of Interscope Records president of black music Steve Stoute and allegedly administered a street-style beat-down. Combs blamed Stoute for allowing MTV to air a music video with...
...grand tradition of Puff Daddy, Kid Rock is sitting at his kitchen table in his small house in Royal Oak, a Detroit suburb, doing what hip-hop moguls are supposed to do: field phone calls. O.K., perhaps it isn't that grand a tradition, and maybe Kid Rock isn't exactly a hip-hop mogul yet--but he's certainly making a run at it. His new album, Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic/Lava), is in the Billboard Top 10. Alongside the messages on his refrigerator door about his six-year-old son Junior's field trips (Kid Rock...
...systems --Walt Disney, creator of animation and multimedia empire --Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. --Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft --A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking --Ray Kroc, hamburger meister --Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo --Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president...