For most of the last 30 years, being one of Vladimir Putin’s cronies has pretty much been a no-lose situation. Sort of like being assigned to Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard or being born into the Royal family. If you were lucky or smart enough to become best buddies with Vladimir back in the late 80s/early 90s, there’s a very good chance that you are a billionaire today. And if you were unlucky or dumb enough to become one of Putin’s enemies, there’s a very good chance that you are rotting away in a Siberian jail right now, or literally just rotting away 🙁 But these last few weeks and months have brought a very new and different feeling to Vladimir’s cronies.
As in previous years, Buffett’s gift was to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, plus a few other charitable foundations connected to his own family. These include the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, an educational foundation named after Buffett’s late wife, his daughter’s Sherwood Foundation, his son’s Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and the NoVo Foundation, led by his youngest son Peter. By giving away these 18,750,000 Class B shares to charity, Buffett is continuing his practice of having “never sold any shares of Berkshire,” and the press release states that more than 40 percent of Buffett’s holdings since 2006 have already been given away to these groups.
Back in 2015, Oprah Winfrey gave Weight Watchers a boost by announcing she’d lost 40 pounds using the program. At the time, the company shares had fallen over 50 percent in a year, and Oprah’s endorsement gave them a 19 percent surge. Not long after, Winfrey announced a deal to buy a $43 million stake in the company. Shares doubled and things looked great for the Weight Watchers brand, which dates back to the early ’60s.
Floyd Mayweather has been on the boxing scene since the mid-1990s. He’s had an enormously successful career. He has beaten a who’s who of boxing over the past 20 years, and made boatloads of money along the way. It has been almost two years since Mayweather’s last fight and yet he still manages to capture headlines. From his much touted bout against the UFC’s Conor McGregor to his IRS lien… where Mayweather goes, so goes the public’s interest.
On That Other Level". The album was later certified Gold. He continued to release successful singles and albums both as a solo artist, and with the Geto Boys, throughout the 90s. In addition to his music career, which has continued to this day, he also writes an advice column that is published in multiple publications including the LA Weekly and the Village Voice. He also announced his own clothing line which launched in July of 2013.
Now, take a second and imagine you are a billionaire. You get massive checks all the time that you happily take the time to deposit. So, assuming you were a billionaire, what would you do with a 13 cent check? You’d might assume that most billionaires would use a 13 cent check as toilet paper right? Well, fortunately we have a real world answer because Spy Magazine conducted an experiment to answer this exact question.
In 2004, he was selected in second team named “All-Big Ten” Pollard started his professional career life Kansas City Chiefs in 2006. In 2006 he played the majority of his rookie season with special teams and ended the year along with ten tackles, one pass break-up, one forced fumble and 3 blocked punts, 1 against Arizona, 1 against San Diego, and another against Jacksonville. He played in Kansas City Chiefs from 2006 to 2008 and after that he joined with Houston Texans on September 2009.
She is known for her work with her celebrity hairline and her innovative hair and fashion events. She also wrote a book called The Detour to Destiny, which is set to release in 2015. In 2015, she also appeared on the hit Bravo reality series Millionaire Matchmaker with Patti Stanger, where Patti helped her work through the right steps toward finding a successful relationship. Brooklyn Tankard has one daughter named Diamond who is the apple of her mother’s eye, and shares her mother’s love of fashion, modeling and dance.
He released the extended play I’ll Take It from Here in 2013. Drugz released the singles “I’m A Coke Boy”, “Right There”, “We Up In Here”, and “Feelings”. He worked with artists such as Harry Fraud, Juicy J, Ace Hood, and Frenchie. Chinx Drugz passed away on May 17, 2015 at the age of 31 after being shot.
In 2001 she was approached to join the newly formed group City High by a high school classmate named Robbie Pardlo. After City High broke up in 2003, Ortiz launched a solo career. As a solo artist Claudette has worked with superstars like Mase, Nas, Ja Rule and Wyclef Jean. In July 2013, Claudette Ortiz began starring on the reality series “R&B Divas: LA”.
Craig Bellamy played for the Welsh National Team from 1997-1998 and 1998-2013 and the Great Britain National Team in 2012. In 2008, Craig Bellamy funded the building of the Craig Bellamy Foundation for disadvantaged children in Freetown, Sierra Leone and has invested over $1 million of his own money to build a not-for-profit football academy with UNICEF in the Kono region. Craig Bellamy has married to Claire, his high school sweetheart since 2006.
That same year she released her debut single “Lotta Money”. She released the song “Hit That Hoe” with Waka Flocka in 2011 and also released the single “Buy It All”. In 2012 she released the single “Loose Screws”. Her debut album The Young Life was released in 2012 and featured the singles “American Woman” and “Love Like Mine”. She has also released six mixtapes. Diamond will be featured on the new Oxygen reality series Sisterhood of Hip Hop in 2014.
The Abbey Group employs over 80 real estate executives, and manages 1400 tenants across their various properties. Donald Abbey’s personal portfolio included two massive mansions that he built to the tune of $200 million. Construction took 18 years. He made headlines in late 2012, when he decided to unload both properties, simultaneously, listing his 3,400 square foot, 8- acre estate in Bradbury, CA for $78.8 million, and his 24,000 square foot home in Flathead Lake, Montana for $78 million.
She starred as Nadia Pierret in the 2010 movie Point Blank and as Vera Cruz opposite Antonio Banderas in 2011’s The Skin I Live In. In 2010 she won a Directors’ Week Award for Best Actress from Fantasporto. She won Best Movie Actress at the Fotogramas de Plata in 2011 and 2012. Anaya won a Goya Award for Best Lead Actress in 2012 and a Silver Biznaga at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival in 2014.
Kylie Jenner Kylie Jenner doesn’t seem like someone that would stress about money. However, despite her occasional splurges – most notably on luxury cars – Jenner does admit to buying cheap makeup from drugstores and focusing her savings on long term investments. She also avoids buying jewelry for herself. Her reason? Down the road she sees herself stepping out of the spotlight to lead a normal life. She understands that just because she has a healthy bank balance now, it doesn’t mean she always will.
She also loves fashion and is said to add to her wardrobe once a week. She loves to shop and updates not only her wardrobe, but also her home, in Versace’s finest home interiors. In addition to working in law, she has also been a property developer and is a qualified art gallery curator. Looking her best is important to her and is known to get a spray tan every week, her hair and nails professionally maintained, and she is always dressed to impress.
He spent most of his time with Tottenham away on loan and was eventually sold to Mallorca in 2012; a year later he was sold to Villarreal. Giovani was a member of the Mexican national under-17 team that won the 2005 U17 World Cup held in Peru. He made his senior debut for the Mexico national team in 2007 and was called to play at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Gary Morse. H. Gary Morse ended up turning the development into a massively successful retirement community called, The Villages. The community has gained increasing notice, as it has become one of the most powerful voting blocks in the nation. Mr. Morse is often referred to as the “Wizard of Oz”, because he controls the local newspaper and radio stations, and consequently, has a large influence on the community. However, he is rarely seen.
Super Bowl LI will be a classic David vs. Goliath match-up of two major market teams with billionaire owners. Let’s take a look at how Robert Kraft and Arthur Blank ended up owning, respectively, the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons. Robert Kraft And The New England Patriots New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (no relation to the food company) has been a Patriots fan since the team played in the American Football League and a season ticket holder since 1971.