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With an estimated net worth of $10 billion, Vekselberg is, according to Forbes magazine, the 44th-richest person in the world...
...With an estimated net worth of $10 billion, Vekselberg is, according to Forbes magazine, the 44th-richest person in the world...
...pension fund may have been used to illegally finance various business deals and speculative real estate projects. Among those hit by accusations of bribery or improper loans are Zhu Junyi, the pension fund's supervisor and a member of China's parliament; Zhang Rongkun, one of the nation's richest men; and Qin Yu, former secretary to Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's top Party official. The growing scandal comes as China's President Hu Jintao has intensified his campaign against corruption, instructing government officials and their families to report any property transactions, business holdings and foreign travel to the Party...
Just because a guy is frugal, bespectacled and leery of tech stocks doesn't mean he isn't a playa. WARREN BUFFETT, 76, the world's second-richest man, just married ASTRID MENKS, 60, at his daughter's Omaha, Neb., home. That's no big surprise: they have been together for decades. The odd thing is Buffett was married to his first wife until her death in 2004, and she approved of his relationship with Menks (she introduced them). After the 15-min. civil ceremony, the wedding party dined at a seafood place. And, since...
...seven predecessors as Nizam were the rulers of Hyderabad, a kingdom in southern India. His grandfather, the seventh Nizam, was believed to be the world's richest man-in 1949 the New York Times estimated his fortune at more than $2 billion. Over seven generations, the jewelry-mad Nizams had built up an unparalleled collection of gems: their pearls alone, the Times reported, would "pave Broadway from Times Square to Columbus Circle." But the Nizams' obsession with stuffing their dank chambers with priceless diamonds and then forgetting all about them seems, in retrospect, like a symptom of a deep-rooted...