Billionaires articles
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Billionaire Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove portrait of her
Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, the country's wealthiest person, has demanded that Australia's National Gallery remove a portrait that displeases her. It has declined to do so and, moreover, the attempt has given Vincent Namatjira's painting worldwide exposure that it had not previously attracted. — Read the rest
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Billionaire Frank McCourt Wants to Buy TikTok. Here’s Why He Thinks He Could Save It
McCourt hopes to buy TikTok without its central algorithm—and put its users in charge of their data.
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Battle over billionaire's private Bay Area beach access goes to trial again
The never-ending battle over access to Martins Beach has been revived again by a Bay Area judge who ruled California’s case against a billionaire landowner can go forward. The saga began 16 years ago when Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla bought an 89-acre beachfront property in San Mateo County. That property included Martins Beach Road, long used to access the beach, which he gated off and closed to the public. Since then, multiple lawsuits have been filed to force Khosla to share the...