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deceased
Peter Alfond | 65
rest in ProsPeritY U.S., $1.4 bil | ShoeS
Americo Amorim | 82
PortUgal, $4.4 bil
energy, inveStmentS
Late Last yeaR, Toronto police made a chilling discov-
ery: the strangled bodies of 75-year-old generic-drug bil- Belmiro de Azevedo | 79
PortUgal, $1.5 bil | retail
lionaire Bernard “Barry” Sherman (left) and his wife, Honey,
liliAne Bettencourt | 94
hanging beside their indoor pool. Sherman was not a man
France, $39.5 bil | l’oreal
who shied away from conflict; he battled competitors in court
Arnold clArk | 89
and engaged in a decade-long lawsuit with his cousins over
U.K., $1.1 bil | aUtomobileS
an ownership stake in his firm, Apotex. The deaths are being
dAvid consunji | 95
investigated as homicides, but no suspects have been named. PhiliPPineS, $3.1 bil | conStrUction
His death is by far the most lurid of those of the 25 billion-
sAnford diller | 89
aires (listed on this page) who died in the past year. “People tell U.S., $1.7 bil | real eState
me life is short, and I say, ‘Yeah, so I better get the work done,’ ” desh BAndhu GuPtA | 79
Sherman said in his first appearance in Forbes, in July 2000. india, $4.7 bil | PharmaceUticalS
Here’s how we first covered four other recently deceased titans. Bruce hAlle | 87
U.S., $6.5 bil | tireS
dorrAnce hAmilton | 88
U.S., $1.3 bil | camPbell SoUP
niklAs herlin | 53
Finland, $1.4 bil
elevatorS, eScalatorS
erich kellerhAls | 78
germany, $1.8 bil
electronicS retail
kArl-heinz kiPP | 93
germany, $4.5 bil | retail
lu GuAnqiu | 72
china, $5.7 bil | diverSiFied
sieGfried meister | 78
germany, $3.8 bil | aPPlianceS
neAl PAtterson | 67
U.S., $1.5 bil | health care it
A. jerrold Perenchio | 86
U.S., $2.8 bil | SPaniSh-langUage tv
dAvid rockefeller sr. | 101
jon huntsmAn, 80 U.S., $3.3 bil
henrY hillmAn, 98 real eState, inveStmentS
U.S., $1 bil | chemicalS
U.S, $2.6 bil | inveStmentS
“Jon huntsman is a rare joAn tisch | 90
“through hillman land, the family
combination. he is both a U.S., $3.8 bil | inSUrance, n.y. giantS
investment holding company, henry
great dealmaker and a great
hillman owns, controls or otherwise Yeoh tionG lAY | 87
operating businessman.
influences enough other companies malaySia, $2.1 bil
the two rarely go together.
to make most conglomerators green conStrUction, real eState, Power
in him they do.” (November
with envy. he is a director of no less
27, 1989) net worths from billionaires 2017.
than ten major companies.”
(September 15, 1969)
sAmuel “si”
newhouse jr., 89 Sherman: dicK loeK/toronto Star/getty imageS; newhoUSe: FranciS miller/the liFe PictUre collection/getty imageS
U.S., $12.1 bil | media
“Since the death of founder
S.i. newhouse Sr. last
august, his sons, Si, 52, and
leAndro rizzuto, 79 donald, 50, have been the
U.S., $4.5 bil | conSUmer ProdUctS two chief executives. . . .
“hair dryers had been around since the the biggest problem the
twenties, but no one until rizzuto had family must deal with . . .
noticed that by greatly increasing air has to do with the changing
velocity and heat in careful mixture, nature of communications. By Madeline Berg and Michela Tindera
a handheld dryer and a brush could newspapers now face more
replace most of the hairdresser’s existing competition than ever
tools and do the job four times faster.” before, especially in big-city
(September 3, 1979) markets.” (October 29, 1979)
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