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271. STEVE WYNN 280. GERALD FORD ited stakes in Estée Lauder, which
was founded by their grandmother.
$3 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * $2.9 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: (
SOURCE: CASINOS, HOTELS SOURCE: BANKING
AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: LAS VEGAS AGE: 74 RESIDENCE: DALLAS 280. PATRICK RYAN
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
The casino magnate resigned as Ford (not the former U.S. presi- SOURCE: INSURANCE
CEO and chairman of Wynn Re- dent) bought his first distressed AGE: 81 RESIDENCE: WINNETKA, IL
sorts in February, then sold all his bank, First National Bank of Post, PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
shares in the company, after dozens Texas, in 1975. Those who stayed The CEO and founder of insurance
of female employees came forward with Ford profited along with firm Ryan Specialty Group, he has
with allegations of sexual miscon- him as he acquired 19 banks in 18 his name on Northwestern Univer-
duct. He has denied the claims. years. He closed his most success- sity’s brand-new 96,135-square-foot
ful deal in 2002, when he and Ron- Ryan Fieldhouse, a football practice
ald Perelman (No. 49) sold Golden facility unveiled in April. Over the
280. JIM BREYER State Bancorp to Citigroup for $6 years, Ryan and his wife, Shirley,
$2.9 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: * billion in stock. have pledged nearly $200 million
SOURCE: VENTURE CAPITAL to their alma mater, Northwestern,
AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: WOODSIDE, CA endowing professorships, fund-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 280. JONATHAN GRAY ing scholarships, renovating athlet-
The venture capitalist made much of $2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ ic facilities and more. He made the
his fortune as one of Facebook’s earli- SOURCE: INVESTMENTS bulk of his fortune founding insur-
est backers. Today he has investments AGE: 48 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY ance giant AON. He stepped down
in over 45 companies, primarily in PHILANTHROPY SCORE: as CEO in 2008 after 41 years and
the U.S. and China and including Blackstone’s former real estate chief founded Ryan Specialty Group, a
more than 10 in the artificial intelli- is now Stephen Schwarzman’s (No. wholesale brokerage and specialty
gence space. Breyer sits on the boards 34) right-hand man. Gray, who insurance firm, 2 years later. David Rubenstein
of Blackstone, 21st Century Fox and joined the alternative-assets man-
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ager out of college in 1992, was pro-
moted to president and chief oper- 280. HAIM SABAN 280. WILLIAM
ating officer in February. He built a $2.9 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ( CONWAY JR.
280. JIM DAVIS $120 billion real estate portfolio at SOURCE: TV NETWORK,
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * the New York firm. The Penn alum INVESTMENTS $2.9 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: *
SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY
SOURCE: STAFFING & RECRUITING has donated $55 million to his alma AGE: 74 AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: MCLEAN, VA
AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY HILLS, CA
RESIDENCE: COCKEYSVILLE, MD mater for cancer research, and co- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
founded NYC Kids RISE, a non-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: profit that helps low-income New The media entrepreneur first hit it
Davis is chairman of staffing gi- York City families set up college big when he created and then trad- 280. DANIEL D’ANIELLO
ant Allegis Group, which has more savings plans. ed kids’ TV show Power Rangers
than 500 locations around the to Fox for nearly half of Fox Fami- $2.9 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: )
SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY
world. He cofounded Aerotek, the ly cable channel in the early 1990s. AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: VIENNA, VA
company that morphed into Alle- 280. B. WAYNE Disney got Power Rangers as part PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
gis, with cousin Stephen Bisciot- HUGHES of a deal to buy Fox Family in 2001;
ti (No. 168) in 1983. In 2013 he Saban walked away with $1.5 bil-
pledged $50 million to Villanova’s $2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( lion then. He bought Power Rang- 280. DAVID
SOURCE: SELF-STORAGE
business school, the largest gift in AGE: 85 RESIDENCE: LEXINGTON, KY ers back from Disney for reportedly RUBENSTEIN
his alma mater’s history. less than $100 million in 2010, then
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
sold it in June to Hasbro for $522 $2.9 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: (
Hughes has contributed over $60 million. His investment in Span- SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY
280. EDWARD million in the last 5 years to the ish-language broadcaster Univision AGE: 69
RESIDENCE: BETHESDA, MD
DEBARTOLO JR. William Lawrence & Blanche is not doing as well: Revenues de-
Hughes Foundation, which sup- creased by roughly 8% in 2017. It PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: % ports medical research on pediat- The founders of private equity
SOURCE: SHOPPING CENTERS filed to go public in 2015 but with- giant Carlyle Group passed the
AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: TAMPA, FL ric care. He cofounded Public Stor- drew the IPO in March.
age, the world’s largest self-storage torch in January: Conway and
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
company, in 1972 with $25,000. It Rubenstein stepped down as
DeBartolo Jr. led the San Francisco now has 2,200 locations in the U.S. 280. HOWARD SCHULTZ co-CEOs and became executive
49ers NFL team in the 1980s and and Europe. $2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) co-chairmen, while D’Aniello
1990s; in 2000 he gave the team to SOURCE: STARBUCKS transitioned from chairman to
his sister, Denise York (No. 328), AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: SEATTLE chairman emeritus. The trio
and got full ownership of the fami- 280. JANE LAUDER PHILANTHROPY SCORE: each own around 13% of the
ly’s real estate assets. He also owns $2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $ In June, Schultz stepped down as $210 billion (assets under man-
shares in publicly traded Simon SOURCE: ESTÉE LAUDER chairman of Starbucks, the coffee agement) firm. Together the 3
Property Group, which acquired AGE: 45 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY chain he expanded from 4 stores in founders have given more than
DeBartolo Realty for $1.5 bil- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. 1982 to more than 28,000 world- $1 billion to charitable causes.
lion in stock back in 1996. He co- Lauder has been on the Estée wide. The chain took heat earlier this Rubenstein is known for do-
founded Brooks DeBartolo Colle- Lauder board since 2009, serv- year when a Philadelphia employee nating to high-profile projects
giate High School, a charter school ing alongside cousin and chairman called the police on 2 black custom- such as fixing the Washing-
in Tampa Bay, in 2005 with for- William Lauder. She runs the Cli- ers. In response, Starbucks closed ton Monument and the Lincoln
mer Buccaneers linebacker Der- nique brand with her father, Ron- all U.S. locations for an afternoon of Memorial.
rick Brooks. Today it has just over ald Lauder (No. 190). She and her training focused on racial bias.
600 students. sister Aerin (No. 368) both inher-
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