China ranks second only to the United States in the number of billionaires, according to an annual report of the 1,000 richest people in the country.
Forbes magazine's ninth annual list of top-earning dead celebrities was unveiled Wednesday, and surprise, surprise: Neither Michael Jackson nor Elvis Presley held court at the top.
A major investor in convicted swindler Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme drowned in his swimming pool in Florida after a heart attack, his attorney said Monday. The medical examiner's office confirmed the report.
A key investor with convicted swindler Bernie Madoff drowned in his swimming pool Sunday afternoon, police said.
Reinhard Mohn, who turned his family's religious publishing company into Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, died Saturday, the firm announced Sunday.
The recession has taken its toll on the nation's super rich, whose collective net worth fell for only the fifth time in 28 years, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Clifton Maloney -- the 71-year-old husband of U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York -- died apparently from natural causes in Tibet during a mountain-climbing trip, a spokesman for the congresswoman told CNN Saturday.
The Ethiopian born designer has an eye for style. She launched a line of high-end handbags in 2006 and a year later married celebrated chef Wolfgang Puck. Together the couple live in LA and have made Forbes magazine's list of "Married celebrity entrepreneurs". While loving the California lifestyle, she still has strong connections to Ethiopia, putting much of her energy into her charity work there.
Billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is shelving plans to build the world's largest wind farm.
The 13-year-old now earns her age every week for chores including feeding the family's insatiable cat
China ranks second only to the United States in the number of billionaires, according to an annual report of the 1,000 richest people in the country.
Forbes magazine's ninth annual list of top-earning dead celebrities was unveiled Wednesday, and surprise, surprise: Neither Michael Jackson nor Elvis Presley held court at the top.
A major investor in convicted swindler Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme drowned in his swimming pool in Florida after a heart attack, his attorney said Monday. The medical examiner's office confirmed the report.
A key investor with convicted swindler Bernie Madoff drowned in his swimming pool Sunday afternoon, police said.
Reinhard Mohn, who turned his family's religious publishing company into Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, died Saturday, the firm announced Sunday.
The recession has taken its toll on the nation's super rich, whose collective net worth fell for only the fifth time in 28 years, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Clifton Maloney -- the 71-year-old husband of U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York -- died apparently from natural causes in Tibet during a mountain-climbing trip, a spokesman for the congresswoman told CNN Saturday.
The Ethiopian born designer has an eye for style. She launched a line of high-end handbags in 2006 and a year later married celebrated chef Wolfgang Puck. Together the couple live in LA and have made Forbes magazine's list of "Married celebrity entrepreneurs". While loving the California lifestyle, she still has strong connections to Ethiopia, putting much of her energy into her charity work there.
Billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is shelving plans to build the world's largest wind farm.
The 13-year-old now earns her age every week for chores including feeding the family's insatiable cat
Simon Cowell, the acid-tongued producer of "American Idol" and "Britain's Got Talent," is in talks with billionaire Philip Green about a new business venture, his representative said Thursday.
Before Jada Pinkett Smith took the role of producer and star of TNT's "HawthoRNe," she made sure her family was fine with her being away from her mother and wife duties during filming.
Rescue workers believe they may have located an earthquake survivor on Friday, four days after the quake struck the region and killed 287 people, representatives of the L'Aquila fire department said Friday.
Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire accused of a $9.2 billion fraud by U.S. regulators has denied any wrongdoing in a tearful interview in which he threatened to punch his questioner in the mouth.
The Mexican military has arrested the son of a top drug cartel lieutenant, the government said Thursday.
What do software mogul Bill Gates and banking investor Warren Buffett have in common with wanted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera?
The gigolo former lover of Germany's richest woman has been jailed for six years after confessing to blackmailing her and other women out of millions of dollars, a court official said Monday.
Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen married National Football League star Tom Brady Thursday in an "intimate" sunset ceremony, US Weekly magazine reported on its Web site.
Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen married National Football League star Tom Brady Thursday in an "intimate" sunset ceremony, US Weekly magazine reported on its Web site.
The on-again, off-again couple tied the knot on Valentine's Day in the City of Love
A Web site started by a student as a way of staying in touch with friends celebrated its fifth birthday Wednesday as a billion-dollar business and a global phenomenon.
The rapper Common wants to take hip-hop in a new direction, he says, and he has an unsuspecting ally -- President-elect Barack Obama.
He's been called the Bill Gates of India, the man who has made India synonymous with IT and outsourcing, and is consistently cited as one of the world's best technology and business brains.
Every day the fate of 200,000 Mumbai residents' lunches lie in the hands, and on the heads, of the city's lunch delivery men, the dabbawalas.
Whether you are a newly licensed driver, a veteran behind the wheel or a lucky person who's avoided tickets all your years, the fear that you will be pulled over for a first-time infraction probably haunts you.
Germany's richest woman has said a former lover has threatened to release pictures of them together if she does not pay him millions of euros (dollars), according to her spokesman.
September was the worst month on record for hedge fund performance, but for one legendary player what's going on in the markets now must seem like its coming straight from the gates of hell.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett warned Congressional leaders Saturday night of "the biggest financial meltdown in American history" if they did not act to secure the financial system.
A few months back, Fortune asked me to move from New York to Los Angeles, and I readily said yes. From the canyons of Sixth Avenue in New York, the Hollywood studios seemed like just one tentacle of the information conglomerates, and one that was increasingly less central to their futures. And yet, whenever I came to LA, I was impressed and slightly bemused by the sense that the denizens of "the industry" there still believed that the media universe orbited around their stars - their mostly distant corporate overlords be damned. In one important respect they are right: Regardless of the relative profitability of film and TV programming, it remains the principal engine that drives the dream factory of popular culture.
Beautiful and intelligent, and balancing a modern outlook with a deep concern for her people, Jordan's Queen Rania seems in many ways to represent the optimistic face of the Middle East's future.
The State Department inspector general Thursday blasted the security of U.S. passport files, saying the repeated access of over 100 celebrities' files had gone undetected and unpunished.
U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey has been ranked the world's most powerful celebrity for the second year running by Forbes magazine.
A former UBS executive has pleaded guilty in a U.S. tax case that is part of a wide-ranging probe into whether the Swiss banking giant helped wealthy clients hide assets and evade taxes
They're young, fabulously wealthy and have blue blood coursing through their veins. Meet the "20 Hottest Young Royals" in the world, compiled by influential fortune tracker, Forbes magazine.
The stars gets measured and ranked by Forbes for their money and fame
He's thrown himself off more buildings than he can remember and broken more bones than an actor has any right to and still be alive and working today, but at 54 years old, Jackie Chan's days of taking spectacular tumbles may be coming to an end.
Michael Jordan and Neil Diamond each paid $150 million to divorce their wives
Forbes' list of the world's wealthy has named Warren Buffett the richest person on the planet, surpassing his friend and philanthropic partner Bill Gates who had held the title for 13 consecutive years.
Mark Zuckerberg, 23, emerges on Forbes magazine's list of world's richest
The Memphis Grizzlies have a plan. It's a secret plan. It's so secret, I'm not sure they even know what it is yet.
Avril Lavigne apparently is as affected as much as anybody by the downturn in the housing market.
What happens when a country is in the news for all the wrong reasons?
Authorities are investigating a Seattle woman's allegation that she was sexually assaulted by illusionist David Copperfield, two law enforcement sources told CNN on Friday.
Magician David Copperfield has been linked to an FBI investigation, authorities confirmed Thursday.
FBI agents have raided a Las Vegas warehouse owned by illusionist David Copperfield, but just what led to the search is shrouded in mystery.
I've finally gotten the last word in my 28-year joust with my former boss, James Walker Michaels, but not the way I wanted to.
Having spent nearly $3 million for her Manhattan penthouse five years ago, Gisele Bündchen is now looking to more than triple her money.
Dell Inc. announced a deal Monday to launch a retail presence in China by selling computers through the country's biggest chain of electronics stores as it struggles to capture a bigger share of the booming market.
Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are reportedly paying $1.3 million a year so their Boeing 767 plane can take off, land and park at a NASA-managed airport located just a few minutes away from the Internet search leader's Silicon Valley headquarters.
She's French. She's female. And she is causing quite a stir.
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel tops Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful women for the second year in a row, while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slipped to fourth from second last year.
Hotel mogul Leona Helmsley, who earned the nickname the "Queen of Mean" for the high-handed way she treated employees, died Monday of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist. She was 87.
Matt Damon can't escape the huge publicity blitz for his new movie The Bourne Ultimatum - it's literally all over his home.
Gisele Bundchen not only has Tom Brady as a boyfriend, she's got money in the bank.
Kelly Rowan, who played resident party planner and family matriarch Kirsten "Kiki" Cohen on The O.C., is engaged to Canadian billionaire David Thomson, Rowan's rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
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