A new Netflix documentary has rekindled interest in the late Playboy model who almost walked away with $475 million from her 90-year-old husband, J. Howard Marshall. A look back at the tabloid tale that made its way to the Supreme Court—twice.
Bezos and Sánchez’s engagement comes more than four years after the couple first went public as a couple, after they both divorced their then-spouses.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship—which plans to one day take passengers to the moon and Mars—attempted to launch into space Thursday but experienced “a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” exploding before the rocket could make it to space, just days after its first highly anticipated launch was scrapped due to a pressurization problem.
Musk lamented that it “remains to be seen” whether or not Twitter will be a financial success for him, in some of his harshest public comments concerning his $44 billion purchase—but he added “some things are priceless.”
Want to make the Forbes list? Try these 10 industries.
Western countries have frozen or seized at least US$9 billion worth of luxury real estate, superyachts and private jets belonging to Russian billionaires since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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 […]