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FORBES                                                                          THE LIST

                                                           136. GWENDOLYN           would become his heir only if he de-
                                                                                    voted one day a month to clean the
                                                           SONTHEIM MEYER           park. According to park staff, Klyde
                                                                                    has held up his part of the bargain,
                                                           $4.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
                                                           SOURCE: CARGILL          cleaning yoga mats and pulling weeds.
                                                           AGE: 57
                                                           RESIDENCE: RANCHO SANTA FE, CA
                                                                                    143. STANLEY
                                                           PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                                           This great-granddaughter of Cargill’s  DRUCKENMILLER
                                                           founder inherited an  estimated 7%   $4.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
                                                           stake in the agribusiness giant. The   SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
                                                           heiress trains show-jumping hors-  AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
                                                           es on her farm in Rancho Santa Fe,   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                                            California.             Facebook may have lost some of its al-
                                                                                    lure in the past year, but it can again
                                                           136. J. CHRISTOPHER      count Druckenmiller as a friend. Af-
                                                           REYES                    ter dumping shares in early 2018, he
                                                                                    bought close to 1 million shares of the
                                                           $4.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  social network in the second quar-
                                                           SOURCE: FOOD DISTRIBUTION  ter. He’s been managing his money
                                                           AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: HOBE SOUND, FL  through a family office after closing
                                                           PHILANTHROPY SCORE:      his Duquesne Capital Management
                                                                                    hedge fund 8 years ago. Since 2009,
                                                           136. JUDE REYES          he’s donated more than $1 billion to
                                                                                    his foundation.
                                                           $4.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
                                                           SOURCE: FOOD DISTRIBUTION
                                                           AGE: 63 RESIDENCE: PALM BEACH, FL  143. SUMNER REDSTONE
                                                           PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                                                                    $4.8 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: %
           149. LES WEXNER                                 The brothers own Chicago-based   SOURCE: MEDIA
                                                           Reyes Holdings, a $30 billion (sales)   AGE: 95 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY HILLS, CA
           $4.7 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
           SOURCE: RETAIL                                  food and drink distributor. It exclu-  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
           AGE: 81 RESIDENCE: NEW ALBANY, OH               sively distributes Coca-Cola on the   Redstone is the controlling share-
                                                           West Coast and in the Midwest, as   holder of CBS and Viacom through
           PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                                           well as beer brands like Miller and   his company National Amusements.
           One of America’s longest-serving CEOs, Wexner has developed some of the   Heineken. Subsidiary Martin Brow-
           country’s best-known mall brands, including Bath & Body Works, Limited   In ailing health, he’s entangled in a
           Too and Abercrombie & Fitch. In 1982 he paid $1 million for Victoria’s Se-  er supplies chains like McDonald’s and   series of legal battles. His daughter,
           cret. Today his Ohio-based L Brands has $12 billion in sales. He has donat-  Chick-fil-A with food.   Shari, National Amusements’ pres-
           ed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to institutions in the state, including   ident, has long tried to take control
           Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. The longtime Republican   136. ROBERT RICH    of her father’s companies, causing
           announced in September that he was leaving the party.                    tension, but the problems escalated
                                                           $4.9 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: %  in May. CBS sued National Amuse-
                                                           SOURCE: FROZEN FOODS     ments, claiming the parent compa-
                                                           AGE: 77 RESIDENCE: ISLAMORADA, FL
         134. CHARLES JOHNSON     is playing its first full season in the           ny breached its “fiduciary duty.” Na-
                                  same stadium that hosts his NFL   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   tional Amusements reportedly fired
         $5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: %  Falcons. Blank made his fortune   His father invented nondairy   back, filing a complaint targeting
         SOURCE: MONEY MANAGEMENT
         AGE: 85 RESIDENCE: PALM BEACH, FL  as cofounder of Home Depot, after   whipped cream in 1945. Today Rich   CBS director Charles Gifford and
                                  he and Bernard Marcus (No. 109)   Products, which Rich took over as   CEO Leslie Moonves, who, in an-
         PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                  were fired by home-improvement   chairman in 2006, brings in $3.7 bil-  other twist, stepped down in Sep-
         Johnson pledged $250 million to Yale   chain Handy Dan.  lion in sales peddling frozen foods   tember amid allegations of sexual
         in 2013, the university’s largest gift to         such as cakes, icings and pizza dough.   assault and harassment.
         date. When it was announced in 2016               Through a foundation affiliated with
         that a new residential college would   136. TED LERNER   the company, the Rich family sup-
         be named after Benjamin Franklin at   $4.9 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: (  ports community organizations on   143. LEONARD STERN
         Johnson’s request, students protest-  SOURCE: REAL ESTATE  the West Side of Buffalo.  $4.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: %
         ed because of Franklin’s slavehold-  AGE: 93                               SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
         ing past; the college stuck with using   RESIDENCE: CHEVY CHASE, MD        AGE: 80 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
         Franklin’s name. Johnson led Franklin   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   136. KELCY WARREN    PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         Templeton Investments for 56 years   Lerner and his family own some   $4.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (  Many know his name thanks to his
         before retiring in 2013. He is the larg-  20 million square feet of commer-  SOURCE: PIPELINES  $30 million donation 30 years ago
         est individual shareholder of the $770   cial and retail space in the Wash-  AGE: 62 RESIDENCE: DALLAS  to New York University’s business
         billion (assets) firm. His son Gregory   ington, D.C., area. His White   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   school, renamed in his honor. Stern
         is chairman and CEO.     Flint Mall site in suburban Mary-  CEO and cofounder of pipeline behe-  got his M.B.A. from NYU before
                                  land is in contention to become   moth Energy Transfer, Warren donat-  joining his father Max’s pet-supply
         136. ARTHUR BLANK        Amazon’s second headquarters.   ed $10 million to build a 5-acre park   business in 1959. A few years later
                                  In a string of lawsuits, howev-
                                                           in Dallas. The Klyde Warren Park,
         $4.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (  er, minority owners of the mall   which opened in 2012 and is named   he bought a warehouse in New Jer-
                                                                                    sey. Now his company, Hartz Moun-
         SOURCE: HOME DEPOT       site have claimed they are being
         AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA                        after his son, is built above an 8-lane   tain, owns over 42 million square
                                  forced out. In June he passed con-  freeway. At the opening ceremony,   feet of real estate, mostly in New
         PHILANTHROPY SCORE:      trol of the Washington Nationals   Warren apparently joked that his son   York and New Jersey.
         Blank’s soccer team Atlanta United   baseball team to his son Mark.                                  MARTIN SCHOELLER
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