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How Jimmy Buffett turned ‘Margaritaville’ into a billion-dollar fortune

Jimmy Buffett was named a billionaire earlier this year by Forbes.

  • By Brian Bushard
  • Forbes Staff

World’s 10 richest people lose US$27 billion as tech stocks sink

History suggests the federal debt rating downgrade won’t impact stocks for long, as stocks continued their upward trajectory after a brief blip in the aftermath of the S&P’s similar decision 12 years ago.

  • By Derek Saul
  • Forbes Staff

Desperately faking riches: Inside a businessman’s outlandish efforts to get on the Forbes billionaire list

For years, Calvin Lo has pitched himself as a globetrotting billionaire-financier-cum-philanthropist with a world class collection of champagne, homes on three continents, a fleet of exotic supercars and investments in a five-star hotel and an F1 team. Great story—too bad it’s (mostly) fiction.

  • By Robert Olsen
  • Forbes Staff

Kim Kardashian just got $736 million richer thanks to Skims

Now valued higher than ever, the shapewear startup just added a half-billion to the richest Kardashian’s fortune.

  • By Chase Peterson-Withorn
  • Forbes Staff

Secret glass house project for Elon Musk sparks internal Tesla investigation: reports

Musk has historically played down his personal living conditions, once vowing to “own no house.”

  • By Antonio Pequeño IV

Billionaire Brawl: Now who’s winning the fight between Musk and Zuckerberg?

Musk and Zuckerberg continue to deal blows at each other, even if the cage fight is still metaphorical—for now.

  • By Phoebe Liu

Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2023: The Top 200

Falling stocks, wounded unicorns and rising interest rates translated into a down year for the world’s wealthiest people.

  • By Forbes Wealth Team

Odds revealed – but is the billionaire brawl happening?

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk say they’ll physically fight each other later this year, and there’s already betting lines.

  • By Mary Whitfill Roeloffs

These billionaires sold the most stock so far in 2023

Twenty-one of the world’s richest people, including Larry Ellison and Rob Walton, have unloaded shares worth more than $9 billion combined in the first half of this year.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

‘Catastrophic failure’: Five people on Titanic sub believed dead after debris discovered

Researchers feared the five passengers had run out of oxygen aboard the Titan submersible, as the frantic search effort entered its fifth day.

  • By Siladitya Ray
  • Forbes Staff
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