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Some of the world's billionaires inherited their money, others such as Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates are self made building their empires. The Walton family inherited around 2.4 billion from Wal Mart.

Warren Buffet, the riches man in the world with a net worth of 62 billion and one of the self made still lives in a house he bought many years ago for $31,500.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is among this group of people. She is the daughter of French billionaire Gerard Louis-Dreyfus and is best known as the Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning Seinfeld actress who played Elaine.

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A list of the riches americans...
  1. 1 William Gates III 59.0 51 Medina, WA Microsoft
    2 Warren Buffett 52.0 77 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway
    3 Sheldon Adelson 28.0 74 Las Vegas, NV casinos, hotels
    4 Lawrence Ellison 26.0 63 Redwood City, CA Oracle
    5 Sergey Brin 18.5 34 Palo Alto, CA Google
    5 Larry Page 18.5 34 San Francisco, CA Google
    7 Kirk Kerkorian 18.0 90 Los Angeles, CA investments, casinos
    8 Michael Dell 17.2 42 Austin, TX Dell
    9 Charles Koch 17.0 71 Wichita, KS oil, commodities
    9 David Koch 17.0 67 New York, NY oil, commodities
    11 Paul Allen 16.8 54 Mercer Island, WA Microsoft, investments
    12 Christy Walton & family 16.3 52 Jackson, WY Wal-Mart inheritance
    12 Jim Walton 16.3 59 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
    12 S Robson Walton 16.3 63 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
    15 Alice Walton 16.1 58 Fort Worth, TX Wal-Mart
    16 Steven Ballmer 15.2 51 Hunts Point, WA Microsoft
    17 Abigail Johnson 15.0 45 Boston, MA Fidelity
    18 Carl Icahn 14.5 71 New York, NY leveraged buyouts
    19 Forrest Mars Jr 14.0 76 McLean, VA candy, pet food
    19 Jacqueline Mars 14.0 67 Bedminster, NJ candy, pet food
    19 John Mars 14.0 71 Arlington, VA candy, pet food
    19 Jack Taylor & family 14.0 85 St Louis, MO Enterprise Rent-A-Car
    23 Donald Bren 13.0 75 Newport Beach, CA real estate
    24 Anne Cox Chambers 12.6 87 Atlanta, GA Cox Enterprises
    25 Michael Bloomberg 11.5 65 New York, NY Bloomberg


Paris and Nicky Hilton 

billionaire heiresses

Paris is the gold standard, She has had her own reality show called Simple Life reality show. Great-granddaughter of the hotel chain's founder, Conrad Hilton, she has managed to upstage the family's hotels with her regular appearances. She also sings and has a pretty good voice. Her song the Stars are Blind is pretty good.

Paris has a line of hair extensions teaming up with Sally Beauty Supply. You can check it out here:
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Paris' younger sister Nicky, who recently announced plans to open up her own Nicky O hotels and is, with a whiff of life-imitates-art irony, reportedly dating Kevin Connolly of Entourage fame.
Nicky Hilton has her own line of clothes she has designs as well as purses and hair accessories.

Nicky Hilton's website:

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Nicky Hilton - President, Creative Director, Designer/Director 

Born into a life of luxury on October 5th, 1983, Nicholai Olivia Hilton grew up in the rich Waldorf-Astoria with parents Kathy and Rick, and sister Paris, who is two years older. Both girls stand to inherit the hundreds of millions of dollars made by great-grandfather Conrad Hilton, who founded the famous Hilton hotels chain. His son, Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, Jr., also handled the hotel business and was the first of Elizabeth Taylor's many husbands.

With a shopper's passion and a discerning eye, Nicky always dreamed of having her own fashion line. Brought up in some of the most exclusive, international, glamorous places in the world, Nicky is bringing a lifetime of exposure to the finer things and modernizing them for her consumers of every age, price point and taste level.


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Bill Gates 

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Bill Gates tops the list of the world's billionaires with $59,000,000,000 as his net worth.

Bill Gates' home in Medina, Wash., is worth nearly $140 million. This year, he received a property tax bill for $1.1 million.

The house is a modern design in the Pacific lodge style, with classic features such as a large private library and a big dome-shaped room. The house occupies 50,000 square feet (4,600 m²) on a 5.15 acre (2.1 ha) lot. Garage space and outbuildings may occupy an additional 16,000 square feet (1,500 m²). Property records indicate eight bedrooms, 25 baths, and four building levels.

It has a 17 × 60 foot (5.1 × 18.2 meter) swimming pool.
An underwater music system and a fossil-motif floor. There is also a glass wall which can be divided.
A locker room off the pool has four showers and two baths.

Guest wing The southern half of the main building, this wing contains the main entrance (with grand staircase), theater, library, formal dining room, reception hall, and conference facilities. It includes only two bedrooms. 3. Library Size: 2,100 sq. ft. The ornate, paneled library has a domed reading room with oculus (light well), fireplace, and two secret pivoting bookcases, one hiding a bar. It's the fitting home for Leonardo da Vinci's 16th-century notebook, the Codex Leicester, which Gates about for $30.8 million. 4. Grand staircase Size: 92 feet long, 63 feet high Towering Douglas fir beams support the stainless-steel roof and are surrounded by walls of glass, concrete, and stone. While much of the house is buried into the hillside, windows on the lakefront side provide views of Seattle to the west. There are 84 steps down from the entrance to the ground floor. The vertigo-inclined can take an elevator. 5. Theater Size: 1,500 sq. ft. The 20-seat art deco theater is outfitted with plush chairs, couches, and a popcorn machine. Screen is HDTV capable. 6. Formal dining room Size: 1,000 sq. ft. Up to 24 guests can dine by the fireplace while enjoying the sweeping view from the third level. Nearby commercial-grade kitchen is 39 feet by 23 feet. 7. Offices and meeting facilities Size: 1,900 sq. ft. Above the reception hall are rooms for conferences, offices, and a large computer room. 8. Reception hall Size: 2,300 sq. ft. Partly below ground, the reception hall can seat 150 people for a sit-down dinner or hold 200 for a cocktail party. A 6-foot-wide fireplace, faced in limestone, commands one wall. Another wall is dominated by a 22-foot-wide video display, made up of 24 rear-projection television monitors, each with a 40-inch screen. A second commercial-grade kitchen serves the reception hall. 9. Multipurpose room Size: 900 sq. ft. Formerly designated a gallery, this is now a multipurpose room, with a video projector included. Almost entirely underground, with a deck above, the room gets daylight from a large light well. Hallways connect it to the family and guest wings.

Other buildings 10. Guest house Size: 1,900 sq. ft. One bedroom, one bath, one fireplace Almost hidden underground, this high-tech burrow was the first structure built on the site (completed in 1992), as a test of the technology to be used in the design of the main house. Gates has used the house as a retreat; he wrote much of his book, The Road Ahead, here. 11. Underground garage Size: 6,300 sq. ft. This cavelike structure is the largest and best hidden of three garages. Built entirely underground of concrete and stainless steel, it can easily park 10 or more cars. Some of the concrete is purposely broken for a "deconstructivist" look. 12. Gatehouse Size: 3,000 sq. ft. Includes security offices, mailroom (with X-ray machine), greenhouse, and garage. The lower entrance to the property is here. 13. Boathouse Size: 530 sq. ft. This rustic log building's roof straddle a small inlet big enough for no more than a ski boat. An outdoor spa is nearby. 14. Activities building Size: 900 sq. ft. Adjacent to multisport court, putting green, and two boat docks. An existing home at this location was moved off the site by barge.


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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey 

Oprah makes the billionaire list with a net worth of 2.5 billion.

She was born in rural Mississippi, became a TV newscaster in Nashville, Baltimore. Joined Chicago TV station, turned 3rd-rated morning show into nation's No. 1 talk show. The Oprah Winfrey Show launched nationally 1986; currently airs in 135 countries, drawing. Previous net worth estimates failed to account for value of Oprah's powerful brand.


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I listened to her CD at amazon where you can preview the songs. She sings pretty good. I would say she has a talent for singing.

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Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren 

Ralph Lauren makes the billionaire list with a net worth of 4.2 billion. A well known fashion desiger in the United States and all over the world.
His company, Polo Ralph Lauren, will design the outfits worn by the U.S. Olympic teams at the opening and closing ceremonies this summer.


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Dylan Lauren 

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Dylan Lauren is the daughter of Ralph Lauren. She is 32. She has opened 5 stores of her Dylan's Candy Bar. A store filled with candy everyone knows with her touch added for a candy store boutique feel.

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    The Billionaires of the world 

    Rank Name Citizenship Age Net Worth ($bil) Residence


    1 Warren Buffett United States 77 62.0 United States
    2 Carlos Slim Helu & family Mexico 68 60.0 Mexico
    3 William Gates III United States 52 58.0 United States
    4 Lakshmi Mittal India 57 45.0 United Kingdom
    5 Mukesh Ambani India 50 43.0 India
    6 Anil Ambani India 48 42.0 India
    7 Ingvar Kamprad & family Sweden 81 31.0 Switzerland
    8 KP Singh India 76 30.0 India
    9 Oleg Deripaska Russia 40 28.0 Russia
    10 Karl Albrecht Germany 88 27.0 Germany
    11 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong 79 26.5 Hong Kong
    12 Sheldon Adelson United States 74 26.0 United States
    13 Bernard Arnault France 59 25.5 France
    14 Lawrence Ellison United States 63 25.0 United States
    15 Roman Abramovich Russia 41 23.5 Russia
    16 Theo Albrecht Germany 85 23.0 Germany
    17 Liliane Bettencourt France 85 22.9 France
    18 Alexei Mordashov Russia 42 21.2 Russia
    19 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Saudi Arabia 51 21.0 Saudi Arabia
    20 Mikhail Fridman Russia 43 20.8 Russia
    21 Vladimir Lisin Russia 51 20.3 Russia
    22 Amancio Ortega Spain 72 20.2 Spain
    23 Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok Hong Kong NA 19.9 Hong Kong
    24 Mikhail Prokhorov Russia 42 19.5 Russia
    25 Vladimir Potanin Russia 47 19.3 Russia

    How do you feel about billionaires? 

    How we feel about a group of people can tell us whether or not we have poverty consciousness or wealth consciousness...

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    Really enjoyed this lens and I am lensrolling it to my E-BAY FOR THE ELITE lens.

    Posted October 12, 2008

    Tiddledeewinks

    I loved my Old English Sheepdog like a child, but because I didn't have the money to pay the greedy vets, she died, and I still mourn for her. So, yes I NEED, not just like money. Maybe it can't bring happiness in some ways, but I sure would have been happier being able to save my precious Tobie.

    Posted August 31, 2008

    hesika

    I think, billionaires are at first very normal people as every one else. And like every one they are different individuals. I can not say: Because you are a billionaire, you have to be a philanthrope. Or: If I were a billionaire I were a philonthrope. That is not a question of the money, but a question of the character.

    By the way: I love the billionaires. Most of them had a dream, which they realized. And now they have the billions. That's great and they show me the way.

    Posted August 14, 2008

    Jewelsofawe

    Susan,
    That is cool that you see first hand the philonthropic nature of the Waltons.
    I too would help people as much as I could if I was a billionaire as well as communities.

    Posted July 26, 2008

    Susan52

    I live in Arkansas, so I see first-hand what the Walton family's wealth has done for us in our state. Certainly many that we know of on the billionaires list are also very philanthropic. I love billionaires!

    Posted July 26, 2008

     
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    Billionaires 

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    Produced Dec 2006 They live in opulent palaces, journey everywhere by private jet and own more money than the GDP of some developing nations. What drives these men? What could the billionaires who have everything possibly need? This intimate documentary takes you straight into their world. We journey with three billionaires as they hunt for the ultimate must have accessory: a brand new yacht.

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    How do you feel about having alot of money? 

    Would you be okay with having billions of dollars?
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    Do you like money? 

    Money is just another form of love. It is energy. How much love, money, support etc. do you allow yourself. Money can reflect how much you love yourself.

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    The energy of money 

    This is a great lens to read and see what your inner relation to money is. I agree with Ener-G on what she says on the topic. Check it out!

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    CleanerLife

    I'd settle for a million, but I'm not sure I can even count that high!

    Posted September 17, 2008

    Tiddledeewinks

    Let's make a million lenses! I could use just a million dollars and invest to build it up and finally get my kids and me our own house (farm)! Then I could help those helpless animals.

    Posted August 31, 2008

    GypsyOwl

    I agree with the discussion that we can give in a valuable way without having a billion $$ however, I can also think of many ways that having resources like that could play a huge part in making living more sustainable for many many people.
    Great 5* thought provoking and interesting lens!
    I recently (finally) saw "The Secret". I like Winter52's take on this. Yes... sit in the backyard and think about how it would feel and then let yourself 'feel' that way. Then the law of attraction will do the rest. :D

    Posted August 30, 2008

    TimKessler

    Love the lens. Great work.

    Posted August 16, 2008

    hesika

    I'm sure, I will be a billionaire. If not in this, then in the next life :-) But seriously: Only, who thinks big, can achieve big things. The money then comes for itself, because it was not the only and first reason for doing anything, but the passion and therefore the success with it was the reason, that the money came along. Let's have fun in what we are doing and the money will love us! :-))

    Posted August 14, 2008

    ricky-macleod

    very interesting 5***** if i were a billionaire i would live a little and make sure those less fortunate could help me spend it.

    Posted August 13, 2008

    Spook

    Who wouldn't, but personally it would be too much for me. I'd prefer enough to make ends met, so I guess that must mean billions.

    Posted July 24, 2008

    dwdave

    I would invest in good hearty portion back into my local community. Set up a fund( probably in euros) for my daughter so she never had to sweat the mortgage & utilites

    Posted July 23, 2008

    youhavegottobekidding

    If i were a Billionaire. first i would help all my family with all their problems. i know not all problems could be solve by money alone but it could really help.

    Posted July 11, 2008

    Recession-Proof

    I had no clue about Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Very interesting. I would love to be a billionaire. I think in many ways, people wait to do the things they should be doing now. If you're saying, "if I was a billionaire I would then donate." There are many ways we can all help others, money is just one of them. Great thoughts. ~Jesse

    Posted June 19, 2008

     
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