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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, 93, marries for the fifth time

Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, 93, exchanged vows with Elena Zhukova, 67, in a private ceremony at a Californian vineyard. It’s Murdoch’s fifth marriage.

  • By Samuel Hussey
  • Head of News & Life

How Arnold Schwarzenegger became a billionaire

The movie star has played many roles in his 76 years: bodybuilder. Box office star. Bureaucrat. And now billionaire.

  • By Jemima McEvoy
  • Forbes Staff

Billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz sells full Disney stake

Peltz’s hedge fund lost a proxy battle involving the media conglomerate early last month.

  • By Antonio Pequeño IV

Elon Musk is the world’s richest person again thanks to his new AI startup

Move over Bernard Arnault. There’s a new wealthiest person on the planet.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Who is Frank McCourt, the billionaire trying to buy TikTok?

McCourt sold the Los Angeles Dodgers for a hefty sum in 2012. Here’s how he’s been building his business and media empire since, and setting up a potential consortium to purchase TikTok.

  • By Phoebe Liu

Dubai unlocked: Inside the secret billionaire hideaways

Forbes investigated and mapped out the multimillion-dollar homes of CZ, Mukesh Ambani and the emirate’s other ultra-rich property owners.

  • By Giacomo Tognini

This Shark Tank winner has a $1 billion plan to replace toilet paper

Dude Wipes’ potty mouthed founders have already grabbed 1% of the $11 billion U.S. toilet paper market. Now the Mark Cuban-backed startup is aiming to swipe up to 10%.

  • By Jemima McEvoy
  • Forbes Staff

2024’s meme stock resurrection adds more than $500 million to fortunes of these two billionaires

The return to social media of the pandemic era meme stock captain didn’t just boost shares of fabled meme stock GameStop, it sent several other meme stocks up big, helping make the fortunes of billionaires linked to the entities even richer.

  • By Derek Saul
  • Forbes Staff

Melinda French Gates leaving Gates Foundation after more than 20 years

Melinda French Gates announced Monday she is leaving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation next month after more than two decades serving as co-chair, three years after divorcing co-founder Bill Gates following reports of his infidelity and meetings with Jeffrey Epstein.

  • By Molly Bohannon

Billionaire Jim Simons’ last interview: The hedge fund legend on the universe, making money and giving it away

Simons, who died Friday at age 86, spoke at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy last September in his final public appearance.

  • By Hank Tucker
  • Forbes Staff
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