Billionaires

Bernard Arnault—the world’s richest person—added nearly $12 billion to his fortune in recent days.

Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, gave an insight into his Twitter ownership in a rare – and bizarre – interview with the BBC this week.

The new season will air this summer, marking what appears to be the billionaire reality TV star’s biggest acting role to date.

Palmer Luckey, 30-years-old and worth US$1.8 billion, could be building video games and virtual reality systems, or cruising in his private submarine – but has instead chosen a job that’s “depressing” and “corrosive of the spirit”.

Just 14 stars have ever entertained their way into the billionaire ranks, including 8 in the past three years.

Ben Francis started sewing his own workout gear as a 19-year-old college student and pizza delivery guy in 2012. Today he’s one of the world’s youngest billionaires

Kanye West lobbied for years to join the Forbes World’s Billionaires list, and in 2020, after showing documents that proved his net worth, finally made it. But after a three-year run, the controversially outspoken rapper has fallen off.

Many of the planet’s billionaires are poorer this year. Some lost their tenth digit entirely. It was another bad year for billionaires, with the war in Ukraine raging, inflation surging and the crypto bubble bursting. Nearly half the planet’s 2,640 billionaires are poorer than they were in 2022—but some fared even worse: 254 people dropped […]

Former President Donald Trump arrived at criminal court in Manhattan on Tuesday for his historic arraignment, which he called a “surreal” moment

For the first time in three years, a self-made woman earns a spot among the top 10.