Did
you know...? |
David
Thomson & family
father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006 ... split
from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show "The
O.C.", April 2009 when she gave birth to a daughter
|
Galen
Weston & family
plays polo with Prince Charles ... avid collector of avant-garde
artist Christo ... owns
controlling stake in Canada's largest supermarket chain |
Jim
Pattison
owns massive Palm Springs lair that once belonged to Frank
Sinatra ... incl.
Ripley's Believe It or Not and Guinness World Records |
Paul
Desmarais
bought his father's one-route Ontario bus company for
$1- in 1951 ... family is friends with French President
Nicolas Sarkozy |
James
& Arthur Irving
their brother and business partner John died at 78 in
July 2010 ... own
600 gas stations |
Emanuele
(Lino) Saputo
high school graduate ... born in Sicily, started Saputo
in Montreal in 1954 with parents ... delivered mozzarella
by bicycle in the early days |
Jeffrey
Skoll
now funnels his money, energy into making films for social
change through Participant Media and supporting social
entrepreneurs through his philanthropic Skoll Foundation |
David
Azrieli & family
Polish-born |
Bernard
(Barry) Sherman
locked in court fight with relatives who allege they are
owed part of the fortune ... seeking over-the-counter-sales
approval of its controversial "morning-after"
pill |
Guy
Laliberte
accordian-playing fire-breather formed Cirque du Soleil
in 1984 with a gang of street performing friends ... in
2009 became the first clown in space when he blasted into
orbit after 6 months training in Russia |
Robert
Miller
supports Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which promotes
cryonics, the science of freezing bodies with the intent
to restore life when technology becomes available ...
Future Electronics is the world's 3rd largest electronics
distributor ... currently sitting in the middle of a messy
divorce with wife, Margaret Antonier |
| Clayton
Riddell ... |
Kenneth
Thomson
Canada's richest man, died June 2006, age 82.
He was worth $19.6 billion. |
John
Irving
died July 2010, age 78. At the time,
he and his brothers, James and Arthur, were worth $4.0
billion. |