Kors delayed his path to the billionaire ranks by cashing out along the way. While two years ago he had over 15 million shares of Michael Kors stock, today he only owns about 4 million shares in the company he founded. At today's price those are worth …

Yet one of the flabbergasting aspects of the Guardian's story about 'Billionaires Row' was the calm acceptance of such spectacular property hoarding. It was the prerogative of the "very wealthy" owners, one local Conservative councillor shrugged …

But it is in appreciating what opportunities this modernisation creates for the Kenyan economy that one is able to understand where the next billionaires in the economy will come from. The biggest beneficiaries in Kenyans' shift in mindset from …

Those giving the $25,000 maximum include some big-name donors, among them billionaires George Soros, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Walmart heiress Alice Walton, who mostly gives money to Republican politicians. Other big donors include …

The net worth of India's billionaire community has soared 12-fold in 15 years-enough to eliminate absolute poverty twice over in the country, where income inequality is also on the rise, according to the IMF. Seven out of ten people in the world today …

None of the planet's other billionaires have gained even half this amount. The 29-year-old's pile now stands at $28 billion, ranked 22nd in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Presumably, this is consolation after appearing on the …

At least £350m worth of property is sitting unused in The Bishops Avenue, the so-called Billionaires Row. The vacant and often ruined properties include 10 mansions previously owned on behalf of the Saudi royal family that have not been lived in for up …

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — Rudolf-August Oetker was weeks away from becoming an officer in Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS when he received word that his mother, two stepsisters and stepfather had been killed by an Allied bomb dropped on their family home in …

Add that to the $300 million in stock that Sandberg has sold since Facebook's initial public offering in 2012 and she is sitting pretty at just over $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Never mind the money she has made in book …