By the time they reunited in 1980, Bard says, his mom, Yolana, had become a wealthy fortune-teller.
By the time they reunited in 1980, Bard says, his mother, Yolana, had become a wealthy fortune-teller.
His grandfather was a wealthy businessman whose fortune was destroyed by the Leader's quasi-Marxist economic policies.
Just as she has on the campaign trail, Mrs. Obama is expected to describe her husband as a grounded, devoted man driven to build better lives for American children, implying he knows more about economic challenges than a wealthy son of fortune like Mitt Romney ever can.
A contemporary descendant of the lush, operatic films of Luchino Visconti, it observes the familial rites of the Recchis, a wealthy Milanese clan whose fortune is built on textiles.
Chalabi is the scion of a wealthy merchant family whose fortunes, made under the pro-British monarch, were upended by the Qasim revolution in 1958.
The feeling is that Mr. Bloomberg is an enigma wrapped in a Paul Stuart suit, a wealthy businessman whose good fortunes have left him out of touch with ordinary New Yorkers.
A wealthy businessman who made his fortune in real estate, he credits the tax-free policy for transforming the islands.
This surreal controversy erupted on Monday after Eric Bolling, a right-wing pundit employed by Rupert Murdoch's Fox network, voiced outrage at the fact that Tex Richman, the film's fictional baddie, is a wealthy businessman who made his fortune from fossil fuels.
A wealthy person sharing their good fortune with those less lucky is nothing new, and almost every charity today uses celebrity endorsements to gain publicity.
After all, what else would a wealthy heir to a liqueur fortune do?
