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- Real Madrid 'refused Man City bid for Van Nistelrooy'
- MADRID AFP — Real Madrid turned down a "blank cheque" for their Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy from Manchester City after selling their Brazilian forward Robinho to the English side, sports daily Marca reported on Wednesday. Manchester City and its new owner, billionaire Arab businessman Sulaiman Al-Fahim of the...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Hollywood sleuth guilty of bugging ex-wife of billionaire
- LOS ANGELES AFP — The private investigator convicted of a Hollywood wiretapping scandal was on Friday found guilty of bugging the phones of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's ex-wife. Anthony Pellicano, who was found guilty in a separate case involving Hollywood celebrities earlier this year, was accused in his latest trial...
- Research articles 2008-08-29
- Russia billionaire buys world's most expensive villa: report
- NICE, France AFP — Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has bought the world's most expensive villa, a former royal palace, on the French Riviera for nearly half a billion euros, a press report said Saturday. Villa Leopolda, built in 1902 for Belgian king Leopold II near Cap Ferrat, not far...
- Research articles 2008-08-16
- Mystery man offers 10,000-euro reward for missing Swedish dog
- STOCKHOLM AFP — A mystery Scandinavian billionaire has offered a reward of 100,000 Swedish kronor (10,670 euros, 15,876 dollars) for the return of a stolen dog, tabloid Aftonbladet said Thursday. "To steal a poor defenceless dog, that's really low. With this money, they the robbers can buy a lot...
- Research articles 2008-08-14
- Tiger on par to be first billionaire athlete
- Tiger Woods is on pace to become the first billionaire athlete, according to Forbes Magazine. The world's No. 1 golfer, who is not playing again this season after undergoing knee surgery (JET, July 7), is on course to exceed $1 billion in career earnings by 2010 after earning $115...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Thaksin still coy on Sven's future with Man City
- JAKARTA AFP — Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra sidestepped questions Tuesday on the future of manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, who is rumoured to be facing the chop in an end-of-season review. But the billionaire businessman and former prime minister of Thailand said the postmortem would lead to changes at the...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Italy's premier-elect Berlusconi basks in victory
- ROME AFP — Italian prime minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi wasted no time on Tuesday in naming key cabinet posts while his emphatic election victory drew a lukewarm response from abroad. The 71-year-old media tycoon said his full cabinet would take shape within a week, to include EU justice commissioner Franco...
- Research articles 2008-04-15
- Russian billionaire Mordashov might double TUI stake: report
- FRANKFURT AFP — Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov might raise his stake in TUI, the leading European tourism operator, to 20 percent to gain influence and ensure it expands through acquisitions, a press report said Tuesday. Mordashov supports TUI management's plans to split shipping unit Hapag-Lloyd from the company and...
- Research articles 2008-04-15
- Health sells at Moscow billionaires' hospital
- MOSCOW AFP — Caviar for patients recovering from a blood test, psychoanalysis at 10,000 dollars (6,360 euros) per hour: nothing is too much for ailing billionaires at the Neo Vita clinic in Moscow's swishest suburb. For the clinic's founder, Artyom Tolokonin, ensuring good health for the capital's super-rich inhabitants...
- Research articles 2008-04-10
- Alinghi wants court to set America's Cup duel date
- MADRID AFP — Swiss champions Alinghi have asked a US court to set the date of their multihull duel against US challengers Oracle that is to decide the next America's Cup, the two teams said Thursday. Talks between the two sides in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday failed to settle...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- Facebook CEO racks up rich title at age 23
- Billionaires are getting younger. Forbes magazine released its list of the world's mega-rich Wednesday and said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 23, became the youngest ever self-made billionaire. Zuckerberg, born during the Ronald Reagan presidency, is worth $1.5 billion four years after launching the social-networking site and...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Moscow: new world capital for billionaires
- NEW YORK AFP — Moscow has overtaken New York City as home to the most billionaires, according to Forbes magazine, with 74 of the super-rich elite now counting the Russian capital as their home. By contrast, 71 billionaires live in New York, according to the magazine's annual list, which...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- Billionaire Arsenal owner funds Russian team
- MOSCOW AFP — A company controlled by the Russian billionaire who partly owns English Premier League side Arsenal will sponsor Russian team team Dynamo Moscow, Dynamo's web site announced Wednesday. Metalloinvest, owned by Alisher Usmanov, will sponsor the Russian first division side for a year, said club officials and...
- Research articles 2008-02-27
- London's 'billionaire's avenue' defies economic gravity
- LONDON AFP — Even as Britain's property market shows signs of struggling, one north London street is defying the gloom-mongers: houses on "billionaire's avenue" are still selling for record prices. Like an oasis of wealth in an increasingly parched real estate desert, The Bishops Avenue in Hampstead remains a...
- Research articles 2008-02-17
- So Happy Together
- Bill archenemy Richard Mellon Scaife now has ‘admiration’ for him. Huh? Bill Clinton is never at a loss for company. When he’s not globe-trotting or charming audiences for as much as $400,000 a speech, he’s often schmoozing visitors in his suite of offices in Harlem. Last July, the former...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Even billionaires get fed handouts
- More than 50 American billionaires have received government farm handouts in recent years from a program created to help struggling small farmers survive. In just two years, between 2003 and 2005, at least 56 of the richest people in the country have pocketed taxpayer-funded federal agriculture subsidies totaling...
- Research articles 2007-11-17
- Breach of trust
- New York While on the tennis circuit from the midFifties to 1965, it was an open secret that there was a lot of hanky-panky going on in the women's locker rooms. Mind you, lady players were much older than they are now, but there were still some pretty young...
- Research articles 2007-10-27
- The University Of California, Los Angeles has received $20 million from billionaire Eli Broad for stem cell research
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES has received $20 MILLION from billionaire Eli Broad for stem cell research. The donation will be used to purchase lab equipment, provide research grants and endow professorships.
- Research articles 2007-10-18
- China has 106 billionaires compared with only 15 last year
- SHANGHAI AFP — China now has 106 billionaires, seven times as many as last year, according to a list published Wednesday that underlined the rapidly growing economic muscle of the Asian giant. Yang Huiyan, a 26-year-old female property developer, topped the list with a net worth, mostly inherited, of...
- Research articles 2007-10-10
- Russian metal baron plans to increase his shareholding in Arsenal
- MOSCOW AFP — Russian metals billionaire Alisher Usmanov said he plans to become the biggest shareholder of the English Premiership side Arsenal after recently increasing his stake in the club, Russian media reported Wednesday. The 54-year-old revealed that he has long-term ambitions to buy Arsenal even if he is...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
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