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.
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Kanye West lobbied for years to join the Forbes World’s Billionaires list, and in 2020, after showing documents that proved his net worth, finally made it. But after a three-year run, the controversially outspoken rapper has fallen off.
Many of the planet’s billionaires are poorer this year. Some lost their tenth digit entirely. It was another bad year for billionaires, with the war in Ukraine raging, inflation surging and the crypto bubble bursting. Nearly half the planet’s 2,640 billionaires are poorer than they were in 2022—but some fared even worse: 254 people dropped […]