Photo gallery: 25 wealthiest South Floridians, Indian Creek Village is for the uber-rich, Senior-level hires and promotions for the week of Oct. 10, 2021, DeSantis-appointed board slaps Disney with counter suit days after Disney sued governor, Shipwreck found off Florida beach is much larger than originally suspected, team says. Huizenga also has been a successful real estate investor. Our Fort Lauderdale trading desk makes over $30 billion in equity trades annually in over 40 financial markets around the world., Johnson said his best advice for young people starting out in business is a statement by former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, which is engraved on a plaque hanging on his office wall: Persistence Press on. Har det uppkommit ngra frgor efter intervjun r nu ocks rtt tid att stlla dem. Now, factoring in Terri, who does own Australia Zoo and has been in far more television shows and films (notably, The Crocodile Hunter, Croc Files, and Crocodile Hunter Diaries ), it was estimated by TheWealthRecord.com that Terri is worth $80 million in 2021. Living in Florida has been like having a free look at tomorrows stock prices. I have seen the transition and the maturation of the Miami market. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Ansin learned how to manage money and his father made plenty to manage. Ive been fortunate to have several careers during that span.. This story was originally published October 11, 2014, 8:00 PM. As the hundreds of riders in Wellington demonstrate, Florida as wealth magnet draws far more than the 0.0001% (of the states population) who made our top 25 list. 14 Phil Frost, 80 $3.6 billion Star Island, Miami. By the time Eric and Victor were in college, Mendelson had switched his investment preferences from real estate to public companies, and his sons invested along with him and suggested target companies to buy and flip for profit. Larry Page and other Google billionaires touch Florida through Googles investment in Magic Leap, an augmented reality company based in south Florida. But he remains an active investor. Jennifer Gates is such a presence at the 12-week festival that the Gates family bought a 4.5-acre equestrian estate near the festival grounds in 2013, then kept buying adjoining properties until they had shelled out $38 million for a whole street. Mike Fernandez, right, No. In February 2013, an engine fire disabled the Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico, exposing more than 4,000 people aboard the ship to broken toilets and unsanitary conditions. He founded Las Vegas-based beverage company Rockstar Energy in 2002. One did it in real estate. Of the billionaires who officially reside in Florida, most seem to do little more here than own a home, dock a boat and escape state income and inheritance taxes elsewhere. He earlier bought a block on Miami Beachs Lincoln Road for $370 million. September 22, 2011 Check out the rest of your mega-rich neighbors below. Many of the top 25 wealthiest people in South Florida own a controlling equity stake in a large enterprise that they founded, said Jaret Davis, co-managing partner of Greenberg Traurig's Miami office. This may in part derive from the glass ceiling that has traditionally kept female managers from rising to top management jobs, the regions relative youth and the limited number of large corporations based here. In the Keys, he owns restaurants. How he made his money: Office and residential buildings in Florida, California, Nevada and Arizona. Anthem acquired Fernandezs Simply Healthcare Plans managed care company in 2015, the year after CVS acquired his Navarro Discount Pharmacy chain. Forbes magazine, which annually estimates the value of National Basketball Association franchises, reported that the move by NBA star player LeBron James to the Cleveland Cavaliers from the Miami Heat could reduce the market value of the Heat franchise from $770 million, currently the seventh-most valuable franchise in the NBA. Russia-born, Harvard- educated Blavatnik resides in London and New York, but in Miami he has invested with Argentine developer Alan Faena on Faenas Miami Beach arts district, a block including the ultra-luxe Faena Hotel, a condo tower with a $60-million double penthouse bought by Chicago hedge fund head Ken Griffin and since relisted for $73 million and other spaces public and private. Franklin was managing $846 billion of assets just before Johnson retired. As was true in Flaglers time, there is no place for the rich and famous like Palm Beach and not just because its the kind of place former President Bill Clinton and current President Donald Trump visit on the same weekend. Arisons net worth is up $2.7 billion in four years. 9 $39 million 400 S. Mashta, Key Biscayne. For Florida Trend, consulting and advisory firm Global Governance Advisors identified the 25 wealthiest people who claim Florida as their primary residence. Golisano, the founder of Paychex, said at the time the move would save him $13,800 a day. The story: Micky Arison, 65, has been with the cruise company his father founded for more than 30 years. Spains Amancio Ortega, the worlds second-richest person, has backed the Epic Residences & Kimpton Epic Hotel in Miami. The Marcellus is a massive shale rock formation in the Appalachian region of the United States, where East Resources had acquired 650,000 acres by June 2009. I owe all to the openness of this community and the generosity and acceptance of the people that live here.. Buffalo, New York-based Rich Products Corp. generates more than $3 billion in annual worldwide revenue. How he made his money: Investing in undervalued companies and sometimes acquiring them and operating them more profitably than the previous management. The 10 most expensive homes on the market in Florida. The story: Stuart A. Miller, 56, is still trying to put a near-depression in the housing market behind him and his home building company, Miami-based Lennar Corp. Miller has been a director of the company since 1990. Led by Laurans Mendelson as chairman and sons Eric and Victor, the co-presidents of the company, Heico now has a market capitalization of $3.19 billion, way up from $25 million when they bought control of Heico in 1990. Ross once was majority owner of Miami uber-developer Jorge Prezs company. The founder's son first made a name for himself in sports. The chewing gum heir turned a stalled family business into a growth company, then in 2008 sold it to Mars for $23 billion. This has been coming for a long time and why I selected real estate some 40 years ago. Her 19th place brings $330 about what her dad earns every second he takes a breath. How he made his money: Automotive retailing. His hands-on investment in Sears has produced disappointing results. LVMH Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, chaired by the 14th-ranked world billionaire, Bernard Arnault, played a critical role in the transformation of the rundown Miami Design District into a Louis Vuitton, Prada, Cartier, Harry Winston, ultra-luxe shopping area set to blossom even more this year. Whats happened now is a whole different, almost sport, where people are getting into real estate in a very strong way and understanding it as a business opportunity, not just a place to live, or a second home, said Hertzberg, who markets herself as part of a team called The Jills with another Coldwell Banker agent, Jill Eber. He's up half a billion dollars since 2013 and lives on a $23-million, one-acre estate on Palm Beach, not far from Mar-a-Lago. The Top 20 billionaires have a combined net worth of $1.2 trillion, which is unchanged from last year.. Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer, No. As a boy, the Pennsylvania native watched his father trade stocks. A two-minute walk away, Steve Jobs widow Laurene Powell Jobs bought a $15-million ranch. Franklin Templeton has over 100,000 investors who live in Florida. According to Forbes magazine, Olenicoff has been preparing his daughter Natalia Ostensen to take over the management of Olen Properties. When his father, Samuel LeFrak, died in 2003, New York-based, family-run LeFrak Organization already was one of the largest private building firms in the world, according to a New York Times obituary. The Sears stock slump has contributed to an exodus of investors from ESL. He is chairman of the board of the St. Joe Company, a publicly held Florida-based real estate developer. In 1989, the company made a successful switch from manufacturing to distribution. However, Braman may be best known as a civic activist who has backed campaigns to recall former Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez from office and to defeat such controversial proposals as tax-funded improvements of sports facilities. (The entire list of the residents on the Forbes 400 is at the end of this article. File for a homestead exemption to designate a Florida home as the primary residence. Berkowitz earned a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts in 1980. He had six companies on the NYSE and is the only person to found three Fortune 500 companies. Other acquisitions followed: Carnival Corp. is the holding company for Carnival Cruise Lines and many other cruise lines including Holland America Line, P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises, Cunard and Costa Cruises.