But after depositing chunks of his hefty fortune in research foundations, real estate and banking in recent years, Mr Ortega has now hit on renewable energy production on a world scale as the next big thing.
Right before her final year at MIT, Katharine ran into the handsome, smart, and slightly erratic Stanley McCormick, an old acquaintance from her Chicago youth and having helped merge his family's agricultural business with other manufacturers to form International Harvester the possessor of a hefty fortune.
That passion has yielded a hefty fortune.
Which brings me to Cheri, Stephen Frears's new film about courtesans of the Belle Epoque who parlayed sexual savoir faire into hefty fortunes.
Nor does he need reminding that his back-story makes him vulnerable to gibes about toffs: he is heir to a baronetcy dating back to 1629, as well as to a hefty family fortune.Yet in his attempt to caricature the political message underlying the 2012 budget, Labour's Mr Miliband chose the wrong screen hit.
He did, however, accept that Arsenal's fifth successive Premier League win might have been accompanied by a hefty amount of good fortune.
A HEFTY PERCENTAGE OF THAT FORTUNE comes from the company created by the late socialite publisher Conde Nast, who never started a magazine himself, but who, between 1909 and 1915, purchased Vogue, Vanity Fair and House & Garden.
The brand started with just a handful of T-shirt designs, but early on it had two hefty chunks of good fortune: David Beckham wore one of its Osaka 6 T-shirts on the cover of his 2005 calendar and then a Big Brother contestant lived in a Superdry top for the duration of his stay in the house.
Bezos, the year's biggest gainer, added a hefty $20 billion to his fortune in the past year.
More independence is desperately needed" Mr Goldsmith, who has been in the headlines because of the break-up of his marriage to his wife Sheherazade – the divorce settlement is likely to cost him a hefty chunk of his estimated £300m fortune – has not always been a Tory.
But the fact remains that some large fortunes are hit by hefty estate-tax duties, and Trump's could conceivably end up being one of them.
