Page 163 - Forbes - USA (October 2019)
P. 163
• B E G I N N I N G S •
179. MARK CUBAN 179. ERIC SMIDT film production company Impera-
tive released Friedkin’s directorial
$4.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * $4.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) debut, Lyrebird, and will produce
SOURCE: ONLINE MEDIA SOURCE: HARDWARE STORES Martin Scorsese’s The Killer of the
AGE: 61 RESIDENCE: DALLAS AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY HILLS, CA Flower Moon. He owns hotels in
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Aspen and Los Cabos and a luxury
conservation lodge in Tanzania.
In September Cuban sold part With his dad, Smidt started Har-
of his stake in HDNet, the par- bor Freight Tools as a teenager.
ent company of AXS TV and He and his father (d. 2016) had a 187. RUPERT JOHNSON JR.
HDNet Movies, for an undis- falling out that left Smidt as sole
closed sum. In December he owner and CEO of the now $4.7 $4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: $
and his business partner Todd billion (revenues) home improve- SOURCE: MONEY MANAGEMENT 159
AGE: 79 RESIDENCE: BURLINGAME, CA
Wagner sold cinema chain ment retailer.
Landmark Theatres to real es- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
tate magnate Charles Cohen 187. JERRY SPEYER 179. JEFF SUTTON Johnson Jr. is vice chairman of in- T
(No. 239). The Shark Tank star vestment firm Franklin Resources, E
H
founded video portal Broadcast. $4 BILLION WX $4.1 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * founded by his father Rupert H.
F
com with fellow Indiana Univer- SELF-MADE SCORE: * SOURCE: REAL ESTATE Johnson Sr. in 1947. O
sity alum Wagner in 1995 and SOURCE: REAL ESTATE AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY R
B
sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion AGE: 79 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 187. KEN LANGONE E
CITY S
in stock in 1999. He bought the The retail maven, who got his
Dallas Mavericks for $280 mil- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: start by buying and leasing a store $4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( 4
0
lion in 2000; today it is worth Tishman Speyer—which SOURCE: INVESTMENTS 0
to Payless Shoesource, hit anoth-
nearly $2.3 billion. At 12, Cuban Speyer started in 1978 and is er home run when Puma opened AGE: 84 RESIDENCE: SANDS POINT, NY
sold garbage bags door-to-door now run by his son Rob—is its first North American flag- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
after his dad wouldn’t give him known for redeveloping icon- ship in his former American Girl A devout Catholic, Langone donat-
money to buy new sneakers. ic places like Manhattan’s store in August. The two-floor, ed $100,000 to restoration efforts
Rockefeller Center, the Chrys- 18,000-square-foot Manhattan lo- at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris,
179. RICHARD LEFRAK ler Building and Yankee Sta- cation sits just a few blocks south which was severely damaged by
dium. The company has prop-
& FAMILY erties and offices around the of his six-floor, 68,000-square- fire in April. Since pledging $100
foot Nike shop, which launched
million to the NYU School of Med-
world. It entered Europe in icine in August 2018 to help stu-
$4.1 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: % 1988 when it started work on last November after Sutton lured
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE the MesseTurm (Fair Tower) the sportswear giant from its old dents attend tuition-free, the per-
AGE: 74 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY Trump-owned home. centage of minority applicants has
in Frankfurt, Germany, the
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: model of which is pictured, more than doubled, the school
said. As an investment banker he
As an owner of many rent-sta- with Speyer behind it to the 179. STEVEN UDVAR-HAZY
helped take many companies pub-
bilized apartments in New right. It also owns properties lic, including Home Depot, a deal
York City, LeFrak took a hit in in Brazil, China and India. $4.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( that eventually catapulted him
SOURCE: AIRCRAFT LEASING
June when lawmakers in Al-
AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY HILLS, CA into the billionaire ranks.
bany passed a bill making it
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
harder for certain landlords to
raise rents. Richard, who has Udvar-Hazy grew up in Buda- 187. JANICE MCNAIR
been CEO of the LeFrak Orga- lows Nicholas to avoid prison pest, Hungary; in 1958, after the
nization since 2003, took over in exchange for drug counsel- failed revolution, his family fled $4 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: @
SOURCE: ENERGY, SPORTS
from his late father, Sam, who ing and a reported $500,000 to Stockholm and later New York AGE: 83 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
built thousands of rent-regu- donation to Las Vegas treat- City. Two years later, at age 14,
lated apartments in Brooklyn ment programs. He made his he was working in a Manhattan PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
and Queens and acquired land fortune from semiconductor warehouse packing boxes for 30 The South Carolina native owns
across the Hudson River in Jer- firm Broadcom, which he co- cents an hour. He started his first the Houston Texans. Her hus-
sey City. Now he is grooming founded with Henry Samueli airplane leasing firm, Internation- band, and college sweetheart
his sons Harrison and James to (No. 148) in 1991. He left Broad- al Lease Finance Corp., in 1973. whom she married junior year,
take over. com in 2003. He sold it to AIG for $1.3 billion Bob McNair (d. 2018) initial-
in 1990 but stayed on for years ly built a fortune through Cogen
179. HENRY NICHOLAS III 179. SUMNER REDSTONE to help run it. In 2010 he left and Technologies, the power genera-
tion company he founded in the
started a second airplane leas-
$4.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * $4.1 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: % ing firm, Air Lease Corp., which early ’80s and sold to Enron for
SOURCE: SEMICONDUCTORS SOURCE: MEDIA he took public in 2011; he is chair- $1.5 billion in 1999.
AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: NEWPORT AGE: 96 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY HILLS, CA man of the $1.7 billion (revenues)
COAST, CA PHILANTHROPY SCORE: outfit. 187. GWENDOLYN
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Redstone and his family own 187. DAN FRIEDKIN SONTHEIM MEYER
WOLFRAM BRUECK BY JOCKEL FINK-AP versial plea deal with Nicho- which agreed to merge in Au- $4 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: $ SOURCE: CARGILL
roughly 80% of the voting
Earlier this year, Nevada pros-
shares in CBS and Viacom,
ecutors agreed to a contro-
$4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: !
SOURCE: TOYOTA DEALERSHIPS
gust in a $12 billion deal ex-
las, who was arrested in 2018
AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: RANCHO
AGE: 54 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
pected to close by year end. His
SANTA FE, CA
and charged with five counts
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
daughter Shari, with whom he
of drug trafficking after police
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
had previously feuded, is his
Friedkin inherited Gulf States
found large quantities of meth-
Meyer inherited an estimated
heir apparent and soon-to-be
Toyota, the $9 billion (estimat-
amphetamine, heroin, cocaine
7% stake in food and commodity
ed sales) car distributor built by
chairwoman of the new compa-
and psilocin in his Las Vegas
Strip hotel room. The deal al-
daughter of founder W. W. Cargill.
O C T O B E R 3 1 , 2 0 1 9 ny, ViacomCBS. his father, Thomas (d. 2017). His giant Cargill. She is a great-grand-
F O R B E S . C O M
