By the closing bell, more than 4,400 current and former employees—including machinists and cafeteria workers—had become millionaires.
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Natalie Hoberman,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2026
And as the influx of billionaires and multi-millionaires to the region continues, the market for luxury homes priced at $30 million and up has exploded, according to a new report from the real estate research firm Analytics Miami.
For a while, this kind of durational performance was mostly the province of Madonna’s artier heirs, such as Lady Gaga.
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Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2026
To settle an estate, someone has to locate all of the deceased person’s assets, pay off their debts, deal with their taxes, talk to all heirs and creditors, file reports with the court, and finally distribute what is left.
She’s given away that sum of money in just a matter of a few years, which steers heavily away from how billionaires usually give away their fortunes.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
2 Aug. 2026
Other West Coast billionaires that bought multimillion-dollar homes in Miami-Dade around the same time included Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
That has created mounting public resistance as tech companies concentrate historic levels of wealth in the hands of a select group of tycoons.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
23 July 2026
Despite the turmoil set off by the Iran war and border skirmishes with Cambodia, the country’s tycoons are collectively richer and its stock market has surged as Thailand positions itself as a regional data center hub powered by green energy.
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