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59. MICKY ARISON after he pleaded guilty to Florida ment towers and a retail com- laboration including more than
prostitution charges. The foun- plex; roughly 100,000 people visit 35 California newspapers that is
$8.1 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: % dation said the disgraced finan- on a typical weekend day. In Au- working to cover income inequal-
SOURCE: CARNIVAL CRUISES cier was let go in 2007 and only gust, Ross hosted a fundraiser for ity and poverty in the state. The
AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: BAL HARBOUR, FL appeared on its tax filings due Donald Trump at his Southamp- couple’s Beneficus Foundation
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: to a recording error. Black later ton home, sparking calls to boy- supports free online tutoring site
sent an email to employees ex- cott fitness chains Equinox and Khan Academy and Climate Re-
The Carnival Corp. chairman
plaining that he was unaware of SoulCycle. Ross is a minority in- ality Project, which is working to
donated $1 million to victims of
Epstein’s conduct when he ap- vestor in both. combat climate change.
Hurricane Dorian. The company
donated another $1 million and pointed him. Black cofounded
dispatched two cruise ships— private equity giant Apollo Glob- 67. JOHN DOERR 67. RICHARD KINDER
al Management in 1990. 129
the Pride and the Liberty—to
Freeport to deliver relief sup- $7.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * $7.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
plies to the Bahamas. Arison’s 63. RONALD PERELMAN SOURCE: VENTURE CAPITAL SOURCE: PIPELINES T
dad, Ted, cofounded Carnival AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: WOODSIDE, CA AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON H
in 1972, and Micky soon joined, $7.7 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: & PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE: E

working in sales before moving SOURCE: LEVERAGED BUYOUTS The chairman of venture capi- Kinder is cofounder and chair- F
AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY O
on to reservations. He was its tal firm Kleiner Perkins remains man of Kinder Morgan, one of R
CEO from 1979 until 2013. PHILANTHROPY SCORE: one of Silicon Valley’s power bro- the largest energy infrastruc- B
Perelman learned about busi- kers. An early backer of Google ture firms in North America, with E
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60. DAVID GEFFEN ness from his father, who ran and Amazon through the firm, 84,000 miles of pipeline. Hav-
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manufacturing and mining he’s recently invested in compa- ing cleared major legal hurdles in 0
$7.9 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ( companies. As a teenager he nies such as health-insights start- Texas, Kinder Morgan is begin- 0
SOURCE: RECORD LABELS, MOVIES worked the loading dock of a up Cardinal Analytx Solutions, ning construction of the $2 billion
AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY HILLS, CA family brewery. In the 1980s he health advisor Tia and student- Permian Highway Pipeline from
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: earned a reputation as an ag- financial-aid tool Mos. With his Waha, Texas, to the Gulf Coast.
gressive corporate raider, but wife, Ann, he has funded projects Kinder had a paper route growing
In 1963, the Brooklyn native
got his start in Hollywood as an his empire is dwindling. The like The California Divide, a col- up in Missouri.
usher at CBS Television City. stocks of cosmetics giant Rev-
lon and gambling business Sci-
The next year he landed in the
entific Games are both down
mailroom of talent agency Wil- • B E G I N N I N G S •
liam Morris, lying about gradu- more than 20% this year. In De-
cember his family foundation
ating from UCLA. It worked:
pledged $65 million to Prince-
Geffen eventually became an
agent. He then founded his own ton, where his daughter Debra,
record labels and later partnered Revlon’s CEO, went to college.
with Steven Spielberg (No. 225)
and Jeffrey Katzenberg to create 63. CHARLES SCHWAB
DreamWorks.
$7.7 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
61. TOM & JUDY LOVE SOURCE: DISCOUNT BROKERAGE
AGE: 82 RESIDENCE: WOODSIDE, CA
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
$7.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (
SOURCE: RETAIL & GAS STATIONS The stock price of Schwab’s epon-
AGES: 82, 82 RESIDENCE: ymous brokerage firm is down
OKLAHOMA CITY about 20% in the past year amid
growing competition. Schwab
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
founded the company in 1971 and
Before he became a business-
stepped down as CEO in 2008.
man, Tom Love was an officer With his wife, Helen, Schwab
in the Marines. He left in 1958,
has donated millions to support
and six years later he and his
causes including California char-
wife, Judy, opened a gas station ter schools and research for
in Watonga, Oklahoma. Today Alzheimer’s and dyslexia. He cut
their Love’s Travel Stops &
Country Stores have more than his teeth in the financial world in
1963, helping to start The Invest-
490 locations in 41 states and ment Indicator newsletter.
estimated sales of $20 billion.

63. LEON BLACK 66. STEPHEN ROSS 55. HAROLD HAMM & FAMILY

$7.6 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: *
$7.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * $8.8 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: )
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY SOURCE: OIL & GAS
AGE: 79 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: OKLAHOMA CITY
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
After more than a decade of plan-
The private equity magnate was The youngest of 13 kids born to Oklahoma sharecroppers, Hamm
ning and construction, Ross’ Re-
named in the Jeffrey Epstein lated Companies opened a portion (above at left in a 1964 photo) picked cotton and tomatoes as a
scandal this summer when news of its $25 billion Hudson Yards child. He later mucked out oil tanks and founded a trucking com-
broke that tax filings for his fam- pany that hauled water to oilfields. At 21 he started an oil-drilling
in March. The 28-acre develop-
ily foundation listed Epstein as outfit. Today his Continental Resources produces 330,000 barrels
ment on Manhattan’s far west side
a director until 2012, four years of oil and gas a day in North Dakota, Oklahoma and Montana.
includes office buildings, apart-
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