About 10 years ago, Pan and her husband called Hillhouse Capital Management’s Zhang Lei to tell him about the liquid detergent they’d developed. At the time, Chinese companies didn’t make liquid detergent. Zhang liked what he heard. Blue Moon was a stable company with healthy profits at the time, but it was a small company. Hillhouse became Blue Moon’s first outside investor. Hillhouse invested $46 million in two funding rounds....
In 2002, Mitchell sold his energy company to Devon Energy for $3.5 billion, but he remained the major shareholder. Then, he turned to real estate becoming a developer of The Woodlands, a huge community based in the north of Houston that has accommodated more than 97,000 people. Moreover, he and his wife Cynthia had been a part of the revitalization of their hometown of Galveston, and Mitchell had also given about $24 million in renovations of his hotels that were damaged of Hurricane Ike in 2008....
In August 2020 TWO new people joined the “centibillionaires” club. On August 7, Mark Zuckerberg joined the club for the first time. On August 26, Elon Musk joined for the first time. Four months later, Elon’s net worth was $200 billion, topping Jeff Bezos for the first time as the richest person in the world. Today there are EIGHT centibillionaires walking planet earth. In no time in history has there been that many humans with personal fortunes north of $100 billion....
Most people would probably spend the rest of their life vacationing in exotic locations, flying from mansion to mansion on private jets without a care in the world! You know what most people wouldn’t do? Use their unlimited time, connections, and wealth to build the largest, deadliest, and most powerful private army on the planet. Sounds like the plot line from a Hollywood movie, right? Sometimes, true stories are better than a movie....
Cornelius was a shipping magnate. He started his shipping business with one boat and eventually built it into a small passenger fleet. He then moved into the steamboat business. By the time he was 50, he had amassed a fortune and turned to building a railroad empire. He stayed focused on his railroad business until his death at 82. He was successful at every turn largely because he had a natural talent for business....
The same year the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and at the time the group had revenues of $6.8 billion. The Woods, who hold the bulk of the company, continue to sell their shares diversifying their fortune in other investments. By rough estimates, he and his family now have a 5% stake. The currently retired Ian Wood has also given over $200 million into the philanthropic Wood Family Trust in the last four years....
If you look at a list of the richest people in the world, you’ll notice that most of their massive fortunes can be traced to some complex and rather boring service or product, like finance, software development, telecommunications, or maybe oil exploration. So it’s nice to discover that there are a few people out there who have earned enormous fortunes creating something simpler, like chocolate. More specifically, Nutella. Let’s repeat that....
His career began around 2016-2017 when he started posting videos on YouTube as a young teenager. Doherty initially gained attention for his prank videos, challenges, and stunts that appealed to a young audience. His early content often featured risky activities and social experiments. As his channel grew, Doherty evolved his content to include luxury lifestyle videos, showcasing expensive cars, homes, and other displays of wealth. He became known for his lavish spending and collaborations with other popular social media personalities....
Jade Thirlwall was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England in December 1992. Little Mix formed on the reality TV series The X Factor in 2011. The group has sold more than 50 million albums and singles. Jade Thirlwall has written songs for Little Mix as well as Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea. In 2020 she won an Ethnicity Award Equality Award. Little Mix released their debut studio album DNA in 2012 which reached #3 in the UK and Ireland....
The 14,000-square foot townhouse is located at 7 East 76th Street. The selling price comes to just under $3,000 per square foot. The property was being sold by its previous owner, Japanese billionaire Bungo Shimada. Huang was born in southern China in 1969. He founded Gome Electrical Appliances Holding, Ltd. in the late 1980s. More recently he’s been involved in Chinese real estate development. In 2006 and 2007, he was the richest person in China....
He created the music for the segment State of the Day on The Dan Patrick Show and appeared on the program in 2013. Jasta launched the Jasta Show podcast in 2014. Hatebreed has released seven studio albums. Their latest album The Divinity of Purpose in 2013 reached #1 on the US Hard Rock chart. The band Kingdom of Sorrow released studio albums in 2008 and 2010 and the band Icepick released one album in 2006....
He has presented TV series such as The One Show, Comedy Rocks, A Question of Sport: Super Saturday, and Show Me the Funny. Manford has also been featured in the movies of TV series Cutting It, Gideon’s Daughter, Ideal, Richard & Judy, Shameless, Live at the Apollo, Walk on the Wild Side, Born to Shine, A Funny Old Year, QI, and Ordinary Lies. He has released the stand-up comedy DVDs Live at the Manchester Apollo, Live 2011, and First World Problems....
In 2006, he began representing Britney Spears, and many insiders point to his guidance as the reason she was able to mount a successful comeback from the many troubles stemming from her marriage difficulties and mental instability. In 2009, it was revealed that the two were dating, and that Britney’s family approved of the relationship. In 2010, he ceased to be her manager in order to keep their professional and personal lives separate....
Her self-titled debut album was released in 1977 and her latest album Amour cache was released in 2004. Her 1996 album Country girl was the first country & western album to be recorded by a French female singer. She came in 13th place in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest representing Luxembourg. She has been married to Dave Ghormley, Andre Djaoul, Robert Viharo, and Richard Berry. Jeane has also been linked to Joe Dassin, Bernard Giroux, Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, and Cyrille Piuchet....
Manhattan Loft In 1999, Joel paid $1.6 million for a newly built loft in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood. He sold this loft in March 2025 for $7.6 million. Early Life and Career Beginnings Born Joel David Katz on April 11, 1932, in Cleveland, Ohio, Grey was introduced to show business through his father, Mickey Katz, a Jewish musician and comedian known for his Yiddish-English parody songs. Grey began performing at age nine in local theater productions and made his professional debut at Cleveland’s Cain Park Theater....
Forsythe hosted the nature documentary series “World of Survival” from 1971 to 1977, and he served as a producer on the 1987 TV movie “On Fire” and the 1998 documentary “Monty Roberts: A Real Horse Whisperer.” John also performed on Broadway several times, appearing in “Yankee Point” (1942), “Winged Victory” (1943), “Yellow Jack” (1944), “It Takes Two” (1947), “The Teahouse Of The August Moon” (1953), and “Weekend” (1968). Forsythe died of pneumonia in April 2010 at the age of 92....
Joy is also credited as a writer and producer on eight episodes of “The ReidOut,” and she executive produced the documentaries “The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte hosts the Tonight Show” (2020) and “The Big Payback” (2023). Reid has published the books “Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide” (2014) and “The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story” (2019), and she edited “We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama” (2017)....
Carole “Kelly” Bishop was born February 28, 1944 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bishop first studied ballet at The American Ballet Theatre School then went on to San Jose Ballet School. She landed her first job dancing in a year-round ballet company at Radio City Music Hall in New York City at the age of 18. She continued her performances in Las Vegas, summer stock and even on television until she was finally cast in her first Broadway role in Golden Rainbow (1967)....
Lilla Kerris Dorsey was born on January 8, 1998. She began acting professionally in 2005 with a role as Kathy Cash in the film “Walk the Line” alongside Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix. Dorsey went on to appear mostly on TV for the next few years, landing parts on “Monk”, “So NoTORIous”, “Vanished”, “Medium”, and “Carpoolers”. Her star-making role was Paige Whedon on the hit series “Brothers & Sisters”. She appeared on 52 of the show’s episodes between 2006 and 2011....
Early Life Kristanna Loken was born on October 8, 1979 in Ghent, New York to Rande, a model, and Chris, a writer, apple farmer, and former actor. She is of Norwegian descent, and has a sister named Tanya. Career Beginnings in Modeling Encouraged by her mother to become a model, Loken participated in the annual fashion modeling event Elite Model Look in 1994. She finished as the third runner-up. Television Career In 1994, the same year she began her modeling career, Loken made her television debut on the CBS soap opera “As the World Turns....
