Top Five Wealthiest People in New York
Haute Living Magazine has seen its share of top five lists, and when Forbes Magazine dropped the 2010 list of the world’s billionaires list, we wanted to provide our readers a top five run-down of the richest people in each of our four major market cities. Her…
Michael Bloomberg
Net Worth: $18 billion
Profession: Bloomberg is the current mayor of New York City and owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media company.
How He Got Rich: Bloomberg
Fast Facts: Bloomberg received an M.B.A from Harvard University, and he gave away around $1 billion to charities in the past five years. He’s divorced, has two kids, and he was a lifelong Democrat before he decided to run as a Republican during his 2001 election.
David Koch
Net Worth: $17.5 billion
Profession: American engineer and business man.
How He Got Rich: He is the co-owner and executive president of Koch Industries, which has major petroleum and natural gas holdings and is now the second largest privately held company in the U.S.
Fast Facts: In case you don’t remember, Koch was the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in the 1980 U.S. presidential elections along with Ed Clark. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is happily married with three kids.
John Paulson
Net Worth: $12 billion
Profession: New York financier
How He Got Rich: He is the president of Paulson & Co., Inc., a New York-based hedge fund.
Fast Facts: Like most of his fellow billionaires, he went to Harvard University and got a Master degree in Business. In 2010, he donated $20 million to New York University Stern School of Business to help fun their department.
Ronald Perelman
Net Worth: $11 billion
Profession: American investor
How He Got Rich: He bought a bunch of corporations and later re-sold them for gigantic profits. You could say he’s a corporation junkie.
Fast Facts: The 67-year-old self-made billionaire first lit up a cigar when he was 26-year-old at a meeting, and from that day on until he quit in 1999, he smoked between one and five cigars per day.
Carl Icahn
Net Worth: $10.5 billion
Profession: He’s an American financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor.
How He Got Rich: As one of the richest people in New York City, Icahn stacked up his fortune by staging corporate buyouts in the 1980s.
Cool Facts: He dropped out of New York University, and in 2001, he was named Guardian Angel Man of the Year for his many contributions to charity.
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