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PARIS, France (AFP) — Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world’s richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates who slips to second place, according to Forbes magazine’s annual billionaires list published Tuesday. US President Donald Trump’s ranking on the list fell to 766th place from 544th in the last edition, his wealth now being estimated at $3.1 billion, $400 million less than a year ago. Thanks to a 59-percent […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Mark Wahlberg soared to the top of the world’s highest paid actors on an annual Forbes magazine list that highlighted a huge disparity between male and female Hollywood stars. Wahlberg, 46, earned an estimated $68 million in 2017 thanks to his pay days for movies “Daddy’s Home 2” and “Transformers: The Last Knight,” according to the Forbes ranking released on Tuesday (August 22). The rapper-turned-actor knocked 2016 leader Dwayne “The […]
Eagle News — Actress Nanette Medved-Po and cousins Daniel and David Zuellig have made it to Forbes magazine’s prestigious list of philanthropy icons this year. The three were included in the Heroes of Philanthropy 2017 list in the Asia-Pacific, which gathers 40 philanthropists from 14 countries all over the world. Medved-Po is the founder, chairperson and president of “Generation of Hope” and “Friends of Hope,” which donates the proceeds of selling “Hope in a Bottle” […]
Three Filipino Families, Sy, Zobel and Aboitz were included in the Forbes’s inaugural list of Asia’s richest families. The Sy family ranked 13th in the list with a net worth of $12.3 billion, being the richest clan in the Philippines. (Eagle News Service)
“Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence on Thursday (August 20) topped a Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid actresses, earning some $52 million in the past year but still far behind the best paid actor. Lawrence, who won an Oscar in 2013 for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook,” also had income for being the face of French fashion and beauty company Dior but her combined earnings came nowhere close to the estimated $80 million of […]
