MEN AS WEALTHY HALF THE WORLD
They’re worth £350billion – so how do they live and what do they ever manage to spend it on?
Ortega, 80, married his second wife Flora in 2001 and they live in a discreet apartment block in the Spanish town of La Coruna.
Another man not known for extravagance, every day Ortega wears the same uniform of blue blazer, white shirt and grey trousers, goes to the same coffee shop and eats lunch with his employees in the company café.
He drives a relatively unshowy Audi A8 but, more extravagantly, globetrots in a £37million Global Express BD-700 from Bombardier, one of the leading manufacturers of luxury private jets. warren Buffett investMent Guru worth £50Billion
An unconventional home life. Married his first wife Susan in 1952. When she left home 25 years later to become a cabaret singer in San Francisco, Susan introduced him to a friend called Astrid who promptly moved in with him. Mr and Mrs Buffett stayed married until Susan died in 2004 and Buffett married Astrid two years later.
Famously frugal, this multibillionaire, 86, lives in the same house in Omaha, Nebraksa, that he bought for £26,000 in 1958 and enjoys dining at Dairy Queen, a fast-food chain his company bought in 1998. His wheels are modest: Buffett bought a £35,000 Cadillac DTS sedan in 2006.
When he bought a £5.5million private jet in 1989, Buffett was so stricken with remorse that he called it The Indefensible. carlos sliM Mexican entrepreneur worth £41Billion His companies account for 40 per cent of the listings on the Mexican No 2: Amancia Ortega, founder of Zara fashion, is worth £55bn No 3: Warren Buffett the top US investor, £50bn No 6: Mark Zuckerberg Facebook head, £36bn No 4: Carlos Slim, worth £41bn, telecoms giant No 7: Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, £35bn No 5: Jeff Bezos, worth £37bn, founded Amazon
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MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates lives in a £55million lakeside mansion, Xanadu 2.0, named after the grand estate in the classic movie Citizen Kane. It includes a trampoline room with a 20ft ceiling, a beach made from sand imported from the Caribbean and Gates’ favourite tree, a 40ft maple, which is monitored round the clock by a computer system that automatically waters it if it gets too dry. No wonder someone once paid £29,000 to tour the house and grounds. Daily Express Tuesday January 17 2017 stock exchange. The country has been nicknamed Slimlandia.
He married in 1967 and has six children. Soumaya died in 1999, he’s never remarried.
Slim still lives close to where he was brought up in Mexico City in a six-bedroom home he bought 40 years ago and has an international property portfolio.
Slim, 76, has no fleet of flash cars and jets, but he does enjoy Cuban cigars and art. Jeff BeZos founder of aMaZon worth £37Billion Apart from Amazon, Bezos, 53, builds spacecraft and bought the Washington Post for £207million.
He married Mackenzie Tuttle, 46, in 1993 after they met at a New York hedge fund office. They were married within six months and now have four children.
Bezos owns a house on Lake Washington and has a £20million Beverly Hills estate.
A qualified pilot, Bezos flies his own private jet. Mark ZuckerBerG faceBook co-founder worth £36Billion
Zuckerberg, 32, met his wife Priscilla Chan at Harvard in 2003, the year before he started Facebook. The couple married in 2012 and have one daughter.
Home is the Californian town of Palo Alto, where Zuckerberg spent more than £37million buying a 5,000 sq ft home and then all the other land and buildings around it. In October 2014, he paid £83million for 750 acres in Hawaii.
Zuckerberg drives a black Volkswagen GTI with a manual transmission, which costs about £25,000. One business rival said of him: “He’s the poorest rich person I’ve ever seen in my life.” larry ellison oracle software worth £35Billion
Ellison, 72, who has been married and divorced four times, is currently single.
He owns a number of properties in Malibu and his main residence is a sprawling, Japaneseinspired retreat in Woodside, California. It reportedly took 10 years and more than £83million to complete. He also owns 98 per cent of the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he bought for £248million.
His fleet of supercars includes a McLaren F1 an Audi R8. Ellison also owns several private planes, including a Gulfstream V and two military jets. Michael BlooMBerG founder of BlooMBerG data worth £33Billion
Bloomberg, 74, divorced his first wife, Susan Brown in 1993, and his current partner is Diana Taylor, a divorcée he met in 2000.
Bloomberg owns between 12 and 15 houses around the world, including two in London, a five-storey townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a £19million country house in The Hamptons and home in a Colorado ski resort.
Bloomberg has a pilot’s licence and his fleet includes a Dassault Falcon 900B jet and a six-seat Agusta worth £3.7million.