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383. JOHN FARBER last year and $2.5 billion more
than the $185 million he reported-
$2.1 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: * ly spent on the team in 1994. Lurie
SOURCE: CHEMICALS still owns at least 80% of the team,
AGE: 93 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
which accounts for the bulk of his
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. fortune.
The $7.1 billion sale of Fruta-
rom, an Israeli-based flavors com-
pany, to International Flavors & 383. PHILIP T. RAGON
Fragrances announced in May $2.1 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: *
bumped Farber back onto The SOURCE: SOFTWARE
Forbes 400. Farber held a control- AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: BOSTON
ling stake in Frutarom and is also PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
the longtime chairman of ICC In- Physics major Ragon, known as
dustries, which trades basic and Terry, founded, owns and runs
specialty chemicals, plastics and Cambridge, Massachusetts, soft-
pharmaceuticals globally. He start- ware firm InterSystems, which had
ed ICC in 1950 as a chemical trad- $644 million in 2017 revenues and
ing division of Leslie Kleyman targets clients in healthcare, busi-
Corp., his father-in-law’s textiles ness and government, with soft-
export-import firm. Farber’s fam- ware to help them analyze big data.
ily left Romania after his father’s In 2008 he helped start the Ragon
business United Factory for Var- Institute in partnership with Mas-
nishes & Paints was nationalized sachusetts General Hospital, Har-
following World War II. In the vard and MIT. An HIV vaccine
1990s Farber reacquired the com- backed by the Ragon Institute is
pany, now known as Azur. undergoing human clinical trials.

383. FRANK 383. ANTONY RESSLER
FERTITTA III $2.1 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY
$2.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: % AGE: 56 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES
SOURCE: CASINOS,
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
AGE: 56 RESIDENCE: LAS VEGAS Ressler worked with his broth-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: er-in-law Leon Black (No. 76) at
Drexel Burnham Lambert and lat-
383. LORENZO er at Apollo Global Management.
He left in 1997 to start Ares Man-
FERTITTA agement; he is still executive chair-
368. TED TURNER man of the now $121 billion (AUM)
$2.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: %
SOURCE: CASINOS, $2.2 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: & firm. Ressler sits on the boards of
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS SOURCE: CABLE TELEVISION the Los Angeles County Museum of
AGE: 49 RESIDENCE: LAS VEGAS AGE: 79 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA Art and Cedars-Sinai Medical Cen-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ter. He owns a majority stake in the
The brothers made the bulk of their Turner, who made his mark as founder of CNN, is now North Ameri- NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. His wife, ac-
fortune through mixed martial arts ca’s second-largest landowner, with about 2 million acres that are home tress Jami Gertz, appeared in the
promoter UFC, which they sold for to 51,000 bison. His Turner Foundation has awarded over $400 million in movie Twister and the TV show The
$4 billion in 2016. They also con- grants since 1990, supporting land and water conservation, wildlife diversi- Neighbors, among others.
trol publicly traded gaming busi- ty and clean energy.
ness Red Rock Resorts, which
owns the Palms Casino Resort in 383. RONALD WANEK
Las Vegas. The brothers have each 383. CHRIS LARSEN en, who has a Stanford M.B.A., co- $2.1 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: &
pledged $7.5 million to NYU’s founded online mortgage lend- SOURCE: FURNITURE
business school for scholarships for $2.1 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: 8 er Eloan in 1997 and peer-to-peer AGE: 77
RESIDENCE: ST. PETERSBURG, FL
veterans. SOURCE: CRYPTOCURRENCY lender Prosper in 2005. Now more
AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
focused on philanthropy, he’s given PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: away close to $100 million, includ- As a boy in Minnesota, Wanek
383. GORDON GETTY Larsen is worth a lot less than he ing $47 million so far in 2018. loved watching his grandfather
$2.1 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: @ was at the start of the year, when and great-uncle build boats and
SOURCE: GETTY OIL his fortune briefly reached $20 bil- furniture in their spare time. Now
AGE: 84 lion, but he is still the richest per- 383. JEFFREY LURIE he is chairman at Ashley Furniture,
RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
son Forbes found in cryptocurren- $2.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $ which sells 30 million pieces of
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: cies. The bulk of his fortune resides SOURCE: PHILADELPHIA EAGLES furniture a year; his son Todd is
Getty, the son of oil tycoon J. Paul in his stake in Ripple, the company AGE: 67 CEO. He has given away more than
RESIDENCE: WYNNEWOOD, PA
Getty, has given more than $100 he cofounded in 2012 to facilitate $75 million, with a chunk of that
million to his philanthropic foun- bank payments using blockchain PHILANTHROPY SCORE: going to medical research at the
dation since 2007, supporting per- technology, and from his holdings After winning their first Super Mayo Clinic to help improve treat-
forming arts, music and muse- of XRP, Ripple’s cryptocurrency. Bowl earlier this year, Lurie’s Phil- ment for a serious heart defect that
um projects, particularly in the He stepped down as Ripple CEO in adelphia Eagles are worth $2.75 affected his granddaughter at birth.
Bay Area. 2016 but remains chairman. Lars- billion—$100 million more than She is now in college.
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