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Henry Kravis, 63
Net worth: $5.5 billion
Hostile takeover? No problem!
A partner in respected/feared leveraged-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Kravis became rich using a similar strategy to Ron Perelman: poach struggling, debt-saddled companies, rework the balance sheets and sell for profit. Kravis sits on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and owns homes in Manhattan; Southampton; Palm Beach, Florida; Sharon, Connecticut; Meeker, Colorado; Paris and the Dominican Republic.
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