Floyd Mayweather just bought an $18 million 280-carat diamond watch called ‘The Billionaire’ — take a look

Getty Images Floyd Mayweather has evolved from the king of the ring to the king of the bling. The retired boxer, who finished his career unbeaten after 50 wins as a professional, has just bought an $ 18 million watch. It is made of a lot of shiny diamonds.   Floyd Mayweather was the king […]

A tech billionaire just listed his Palo Alto home for $100 million, the most expensive Bay Area listing in a decade — take a look inside

The most expensive listed Bay Area home within the last decade is currently for sale for nearly $ 100 million, with extensive and plentiful amenities to match. Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, the 32,000-square-foot home at 610 Los Trancos Rd in Palo Alto, Calif., belongs to Scott McNealy, who co-founded the computer company Sun […]

Billionaire ex-CEO Steve Wynn files defamation lawsuit against former employee who accused him of sexual misconduct

Ousted Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn is suing a former employee who accused him of sexual misconduct. He says Jorgen Nielsen, a former artistic director at the Wynn Las Vegas salon, made “false and defamatory” statements to the Wall Street Journal and ABC News. The scandal ultimately led to Wynn’s resignation in February. (Reuters) – Steve […]

People have raised over $900 to buy a new couch for billionaire Elon Musk

Ben Sullins/GoFundMe People are trying to raise $ 1,000 on GoFundMe to buy Tesla CEO Elon Musk a new couch.  The campaign started after Musk said in an interview he’d been sleeping on a couch at his Tesla factory in Fremont, California.  The couch looks very uncomfortable, and Musk even admitted he sometimes just sleeps […]

Billionaire banking heir and cryptocurrency investor Matthew Mellon dies in rehab at 54

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Dom Perignon Billionaire Matthew Mellon is dead at 54. He died at a rehab facility in Mexico after struggling with an addiction to painkillers. Mellon is a descendant of the founders of Mellon Bank and investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert. In recent years he made a reported $ 1 billion investing in […]

Meet the ‘rockstar’ MIT professor who’s been linked to Brad Pitt and billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman

Riccardo Savi/Getty Brad Pitt is reportedly spending time with MIT Media Lab professor Neri Oxman — though the relationship isn’t romantic. Oxman is reportedly dating billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. Oxman was born in Israel, coined the term and pioneered the field of “material ecology,” and has her work featured in museums across the […]

Moscow court arrests billionaire tycoon Magomedov on suspicion of embezzling $44mn

Russian billionaire businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov, a co-owner of the Summa investment group, was arrested on Saturday on charges of misappropriating millions in state funds designed for infrastructure and energy projects. Magomedov was arrested in Moscow together with his brother and Summa co-owner, Magomed Magomedov, and the head of one of the companies involved in Summa, […]

Meet the kids of the world’s richest billionaire business moguls

Tim P. Whitby / Getty Many of the world’s richest people and most recognizable business moguls are also parents. They raise their kids just like everyone else, but with billions of dollars to do so. Education is usually a priority: Bill Gates sent his children to the private school he graduated from, and Elon Musk’s […]