billionaires

Hamilton Nolan · 10/02/13 04:11PM

In Chicago today, "The billionaire who created Beanie Babies broke down crying." Does it really matter why?

Russian Billionaire Buys NYC's Priciest Apartment for His Daughter's Pied-a-Terre

Max Read · 12/21/11 10:18AM

Russian fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev needed somewhere for his daughter, a student at an unidentified American university, to stay when she visited New York. Nothing too fancy—just an easy spot with a nice bedroom, an eat-in kitchen, maybe an office, and, while we're at it, a library, and, if possible, a terrace. Oh, and an in-apartment gallery. For her art. Around, say, 6,744 square feet? On Central Park West?

Billionaire Walmart Heiress Arrested for DWI

Maureen O'Connor · 10/13/11 11:28AM

Alice Walton, billionaire daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was arrested for DWI on the night of her 62nd birthday in Mineral Wells, Texas. Last time she got a DWI, Alice screamed, "I'm Alice Walton, bitch!" No such outbursts this time. That we know of. Yet.

Billionaires Want You to Give Your Money Away

Lauri Apple · 05/07/11 03:10PM

Warren Buffett, Melinda Gates, and some other middle-class Americans got together in Arizona to talk about giving some of their hard-earned dollars away to less successful, less ambitious Americans, and also "meet each other, compare notes, eat and laugh." They hope you'll follow their example.

David Koch Doesn't Give 'Hardcore Socialist' Obama Credit for Killing Anything

Jim Newell · 05/05/11 02:55PM

David Koch, the right-wing billionaire who funds much of the Republican party's ideological activities and whose towering persona makes for effective left-wing performance art, gave a rare public comment to New York magazine at some gala or another last night. Does he think the president deserves any credit for the Osama bin Laden mission? Of course not! Socialists don't deserve a farthing's worth of credit for anything.

George Soros Bailing on Democrats Before Midterm 'Avalanche'

Jim Newell · 10/11/10 05:23PM

Be scared, Democrats, because Daddy's taking the credit card away. That's right: George Soros, the billionaire financier who's bankrolled many Democratic victories in previous years, isn't donating to them this year, saying that even he can't stop the Republican "avalanche."

Steve Schwarzman: PR Nightmare

Hamilton Nolan · 08/17/10 09:06AM

Billionaire plutocrat Steve Schwarzman committed a "gaffe" recently when he said that Obama's effort to raise taxes on private equity firms is "a war...like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939." Steve! We are shocked you'd say (or do!) something stupid.

Emma Lasry: Billionaire's Daughter, Closet Bitch

Hamilton Nolan · 08/11/10 08:48AM

Emma Lasry is the 18 year-old daughter of hedge fund billionaire and Bill Clinton pal Marc Lasry. But that is not all: she is also a closet bitch. Self-described! Click play on Emma Lasry's debut pop tune video at once!