1. JK Rowling, 52 years old
Net worth: $ 650 million (Forbes, 2017)
It is strange that in the world there are people who do not care much about the numbers behind the commas on their assets. One of them is JK Rowling, who just five years ago amassed a fortune of up to a billion dollars thanks to his endless creations.
Her Harry Potter books have sold more than 450 million copies and the movies of the same name grossed $ 7.7 billion. But instead of trying to maintain the title of billionaire, Rowling has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to charities and put herself down as a millionaire.
2. John Fredriksen, 73 years old
Net worth: $ 9.9 billion (According to Forbes, 2017)
Shipping magnate John Fredriksen was Norway’s richest man until he fled to the island of Sip in the mid-1990s to evade taxes. The owner of the world’s largest bullet train once dropped out of high school to pursue his dream of getting rich.
From the 1960s, Fredriksen started an oil business in Beirut, after which he operated military cargo ships to the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. By the 80s, he was behind shipments of crude oil to Iran under US embargoes following the capture of the embassy in 1979, and then in the Iran-Iraq conflict. Although life is full of international intrigue, Fredriksen is very manly in his way. He likes to wear ties, stay away from computers and only read news on paper and keep records of his companies in 19 suitcases in his Chelsea office.
3. Tiriac ions, 78 years old
Net worth: $ 1.25 billion (according to Forbes, 2017)
Known as the "Count Dracula", and "The Brasov Bulldozer", Tiriac was a Romanian Olympic hockey player who later became a professional tennis star. He won the men’s doubles title at the French Open in 1970. He earned a fortune after his competitive career and established the first post-post bank in Romania in 1990.
Known for his expressionless face, Tiriac speaks nine languages, eating up to six steaks, four plates of noodles, and 12 eggs at breakfast.
4. Ivan Chrenko, 49 years old
Net worth: $ 1.1 billion (According to Forbes, 2017)
Rich people often live in seclusion, but Ivan Chrenko is even more so. Slovakia’s first and only billionaire so far remains a mystery.
In the Chrenko profile that announced that he was on the list of world billionaires, Forbes wrote: "He did not tell the media about his fortune." Even the Forbes profile, a Slovak-born businessman, did not have a photo. ”A single photo of Chrenko was found on the website of HB Reavis, a real estate development company of which Chrenko is president, chief executive officer, and co-founder.
5. Ingvar Kamprad, 91 years old
Net worth: $ 3.5 billion (According to Forbes, 2015) to $ 46.8 billion (Bloomberg, 2017)
IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad is probably the world’s most stingy billionaire.
Founded IKEA at the age of 17, Ingvar Kamprad has always wanted to stay away from the elite. The self-made billionaire often flies economy, stays in budget hotels, takes the subway, and drives an old Volvo. He even publishes a number of books detailing how to spend his money frugally. These coincide with IKEA’s approach to business and interior design.
6. Stewart Rahr, 71 years old
Net worth: $ 2.2 billion (According to Forbes, 2017)
Stewart Rahr, who likes to call himself Rah Rah, makes most of her fortune from drug price speculation, is the epitome of a quirky and obnoxious billionaire. He has a long list of celebrities that he regularly emails them updates on his life. He even attached to the email some pictures of a real woman or pictures of his partying with many other famous people.
In 2012, Rahr was once banned from entering the famous Nobu sushi chain, sent to a psychiatric clinic after an accusation of pulling a gun at the Trump Tower elevator in Manhattan. His antics are often published in the New York Post.
7. Paul Allen (64 years old)
Net worth: $ 20.7 billion (According to Forbes, 2017)
Most billionaires will save all or part of their wealth for their children, but not for Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft. Instead, Allen devotes his fortune to a lavish lifestyle, luxury parties, and expensive yachts. He also contributes a lot of money to charities supporting medical research and environmental sustainability. In addition, he also has a monolithic gold toilet.
8. Nicolas Berggruen (56 years old)
Net worth: $ 1.82 billion (According to Forbes, 2017)
Once called a "homeless billionaire", Nicolas Berggruen’s life is both true and not true of that name. He has lived a nomadic life for many years, without any permanent accommodation, but lavishly in luxury hotels and private jet. But there are more oddities with this German-American citizen.
Berggruen always had big ideas about how to operate society. At the age of 15, he drafted a constitution for a working utopia. His father was Heinz Berggruen, a famous art collector, a close friend of Picasso, and a time-old man of Freida Kahlo.
He often travels with only a phone and a few clothes because he often has clothes in his favorite hotels for next return. He was also haunted by thinking that California is an economic and cultural powerhouse poured millions of dollars and the Think Long Commission aimed to repair the federal governance system.
