Richest Man

India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is having a little housewarming in Mumbai this week to show folks around. It could take awhile. The $1-billion home, seven years in the making, is 400,000 square feet on 27 floors, all for a family of six. Don't worry about parking. The building, which looms over the city's skyline like a Lego set gone awry, boasts a 168-space lot. Or avoid Mumbai's nightmarish traffic altogether by landing on one of three helipads. Need to cool off after the stressful drive?

PARIS -- France's richest man, Bernard Arnault, the billionaire head of luxury goods group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, has withdrawn his application for Belgian citizenship amid criticism that he was seeking to escape French taxes. The 64-year-old tycoon insisted in a newspaper interview that he never intended to avoid the French taxman or President François Hollande's proposed 75% "supertax" rate. Instead, he said, he wanted to save his family business empire from being torn apart if his five children from two marriages fell out after his death.

The richest man in Los Angeles could buy the AEG sports and entertainment empire. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns a minority share of the Lakers and tried to buy part of the Dodgers, is exploring the purchase of  AEG. [For the record, 8:15 a.m., Sept. 19: An earlier version of this post incorrectly listed Soon-Shiong's age as 59. ] The Dodgers were sold in spring for $2.15 billion, a world record for a sports franchise. The AEG assets could fetch more than double that price, depending in part on which properties AEG owner Philip Anschutz and AEG President Tim Leiweke ultimately decide to include in the sale.  The AEG assets include ownership shares in the Lakers, Kings, Galaxy, Staples Center and L.A. Live, according to the sale announcement.

It isn't easy being the founder of a company that sorely disappoints Wall Street. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has seen his personal fortune plunge along with Facebook's in the difficult aftermath of the initial public stock offering that did not live up to its considerable hype. The result: Zuckerberg is now only tied for the 36 th richest person in America in the latest ranking from Forbes. His holdings in Facebook have lost about half their value, or about $8 billion in net worth, so he slipped from No. 14 on the list.

The richest man in Los Angeles has not bid for the Dodgers. However, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong could join the Dodgers sweepstakes soon — not by bidding on his own, but by joining one of the groups already in the running to buy the team. Soon-Shiong has met with several prospective bidders, and he had dinner recently with outgoing Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. Soon-Shiong purchased Magic Johnson's ownership stake in the Lakers in 2010. Johnson, who has teamed with longtime baseball executive Stan Kasten to try to buy the Dodgers, also has paid his respects to McCourt.

The richest man in the country, John Kluge, was awarded $46.6 million in a suit against a former friend. Kluge, whose Metromedia empire includes telecommunications, computers and film production, had sued Bill Fugazy on the grounds that Fugazy had overvalued the limo company he sold to Kluge by about $7.5 million. A New York jury awarded Kluge $15.5 million and the judge tripled that amount. "It's an absurd decision," Fugazy said. "It's a personal thing, Kluge and me.

Lomas de Chapultepec, a neighborhood of huge homes behind high stone and brick walls, wakes up each morning to the sound of sweeping. As the dawn's dark fades to light, servants emerge from behind gates and, with witches' brooms, brush away the leaves and twigs and lavender jacaranda petals that have fallen overnight. Maids in pastel uniforms, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs — these are the public denizens of this super-rich enclave. The actual homeowners and permanent residents are rarely seen.

The following comes from the fevered imagination of the columnist, who is not now and never will be on the list of richest people in Orange County: A mopey Donald Bren was in seclusion over the weekend, holed up in an undisclosed motel not far from the Movieland Wax Museum on Beach Boulevard. Still, he agreed to see me, on the condition that I not reveal his whereabouts or ask any "tough questions." "I'm a little fragile right now," he said.

Marvin Davis, the richest man in Los Angeles, is on a billion-dollar shopping spree. He bought a pay-television service for $635 million. He looked over the Dallas Cowboys, but didn't buy America's team. He considered buying the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, but concluded that the newspaper was too sick after looking at its books. Now he's trying to buy Northwest Airlines. With up to four other bidders competing for the airline, Davis shows few signs of slowing. Yet, says one longtime friend, Davis' quest for the airline won't distract him from other potential investments.

The Sultan of Brunei, widely regarded as the world's richest man, marked 25 years on his gilded throne Monday, but he offered his pampered subjects only prosperity rather than a return to democracy. Celebrations marking the Silver Jubilee of Sultan Muda Hassanal Bolkiah produced a rare public gathering of Asia's reticent royal houses, from Malaysia's sultans outfitted in blue and chartreuse silks to the Crown Prince of Thailand in a Saville Row double-breasted suit.

The richest man in Los Angeles could buy the AEG sports and entertainment empire. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns a minority share of the Lakers and tried to buy part of the Dodgers, is exploring the purchase of  AEG. [For the record, 8:15 a.m., Sept. 19: An earlier version of this post incorrectly listed Soon-Shiong's age as 59. ] The Dodgers were sold in spring for $2.15 billion, a world record for a sports franchise. The AEG assets could fetch more than double that price, depending in part on which properties AEG owner Philip Anschutz and AEG President Tim Leiweke ultimately decide to include in the sale.  The AEG assets include ownership shares in the Lakers, Kings, Galaxy, Staples Center and L.A. Live, according to the sale announcement.

AEG had barely put itself up for sale Tuesday evening when speculation began to mount that Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong may be in the running to buy all or part of the entertainment giant, according to a person familiar with the situation unauthorized to speak publicly on the matter. The Anschutz Co., run by Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz, said it is seeking a buyer for its AEG subsidiary, which has stakes in the L.A. Live entertainment venue in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Kings professional hockey team and the Los Angeles Galaxy pro soccer team.

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the richest man in Los Angeles, has joined the Dodgers bid group led by hedge-fund billionaire Steven Cohen. The alliance is the strongest indication yet of Cohen's intention to present outgoing owner Frank McCourt with a final bid that reflects prominent local support rather than just overwhelming East Coast money. If McCourt were to accept the Cohen bid, he would be rejecting one led by local icon Magic Johnson. Soon-Shiong has held several meetings with McCourt since the Dodgers were put up for sale in November, according to people familiar with the process.

The richest man in Los Angeles has not bid for the Dodgers. However, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong could join the Dodgers sweepstakes soon — not by bidding on his own, but by joining one of the groups already in the running to buy the team. Soon-Shiong has met with several prospective bidders, and he had dinner recently with outgoing Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. Soon-Shiong purchased Magic Johnson's ownership stake in the Lakers in 2010. Johnson, who has teamed with longtime baseball executive Stan Kasten to try to buy the Dodgers, also has paid his respects to McCourt.

In one corner: the world's richest man, with a fortune estimated at $74 billion. In the other: two of the biggest media moguls in Latin America, with power to shape public opinion. It's the clash of the titans. The three Mexican billionaires are battling to expand their already expansive empires and amass an even more massive share of a telecommunications market projected to be worth $35 billion by 2015. The dispute pits Carlos Slim Helu, who controls most phone service in Mexico, against a couple of TV barons who command most of the eyeballs in the Mexican market.

Lomas de Chapultepec, a neighborhood of huge homes behind high stone and brick walls, wakes up each morning to the sound of sweeping. As the dawn's dark fades to light, servants emerge from behind gates and, with witches' brooms, brush away the leaves and twigs and lavender jacaranda petals that have fallen overnight. Maids in pastel uniforms, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs — these are the public denizens of this super-rich enclave. The actual homeowners and permanent residents are rarely seen.

As the Catalonians see it, it's no accident that their capital city, Barcelona, will be hosting the Summer Olympics in 1992. Historically the most enterprising and cosmopolitan corner of Spain, Catalonia took the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and paid the price in brutal reprisals and decades of political and cultural repression.

Who the hell is Gary Winnick? Among many other things, he is the newly crowned richest man, woman or child in Los Angeles. Winnick, a 51-year-old investor and former partner of Michael Milken, tops this year's edition of a local business publication's list of the richest people in L.A. How rich is he? In the last two weeks he has lost a billion dollars. And he's still the richest man in a town full of rich people.

The richest man in the world remains Carlos Slim, according to Forbes magazine's list of billionaires. The number of billionaires increased by 199 in the past year, according to the magazine, but it was the Mexican telecom magnate Slim, who kept the No. 1 spot for the second year by increasing his worth by $20.5 billion to $74 billion. Photos: Some of the richest people in the world Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, who is worth $56 billion, is No. 2 on the list.

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