Billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts managed to crowd out Mitt Romney's good fundraising news, thanks to the NY Times' report about a study prepared for Ricketts—the study was titled, "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good," and suggests spending $10 million to ruin the President, "The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way." more ›

Bloomberg News published its first Bloomberg Billionaires Index—and its founder, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is nowhere to be found! Probably because his net worth is estimated to be in the $20 billion range. The biggest billionaire is Carlos Slim, the Mexican mobile phone mogul (and NY Times lender), whose net worth is $68.5 billion; number two on the list is Bill Gates ($62.4 billion) and Warren Buffett ($43.8 billion). And the richest European? Ingvar Kamprad, whose IKEA empire has given him a fortune of over $40 billion. more ›

Georgina Bloomberg, the equestrian daughter of Mayor Bloomberg, just had her latest young adult book hit bookstores/Amazon.com on Tuesday (think Gossip Girl but way less oversexed aimed at the horse-mad who will eventually read Riders) so she's doing interviews! In a chat with Manhattan Magazine, she finally clears up her famously pouty statement, "Having the last name Bloomberg sucks." more ›

Mayor Bloomberg may tell you to "deal with it" when it comes to blizzards, paying for the FDNY to respond to your crash, smoking, cutting the number of teachers, brazen corruption, and police raiding your stupid protest, but let's face it: When he announced he'd donate up to $250,000 to Planned Parenthood, you liked him for at least five minutes. more ›

Over a year after the federal authorities raided hedge funds, the FBI has arrested three men as part of its insider trading investigation, including a Manhattan resident who wasn't home when they went to his home this morning. more ›

If your 80-year-old billionaire activist investor boyfriend promises you a Manhattan apartment but ends up giving it to another woman—and tells you this over pillow talk—you should sue him, right? That's what 28-year-old Adriana Ferreyr is doing by filing a $50 million lawsuit against George Soros. However, Soros' spokesman says, "This is a blatant attempt to shake down George Soros. The lawsuit is frivolous and completely without merit." more ›

There's a lot of things we could debate about Donald Trump: is he seriously running for president? Does he really think Obama wasn't born in the US? Is that his real hair? If that is his real hair, why doesn't he do something about it? Does he not realize that people are staring at him? But there's one thing that has always seemed rather irrefutable: Trump is pretty darn rich (or else he'll sue you). Now here's another thing that seems rather irrefutable: Trump is pretty darn cheap when it comes to charitable donations. more ›

Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein was recently released from prison after serving 13 months in jail for soliciting a minor for prostitution, and he's back in his natural habitat on the Upper East Side. But don't let that fool you into thinking he's learned any humility from his legal troubles: he made it clear to the Post yesterday that a rich perv by any other name is still a rich perv. "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender.' It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel," Epstein posited. more ›

How the other side lives: Hedge fund billionaire Paul Jones Tudor III has an incredible Christmas display in front of his Greenwich, Connecticut home. According to the Metropolis, "Off-duty police officers direct traffic around the sprawling light display, allowing drivers to line up eight at a time in front of Jones’ 13,000-square-foot home on a waterfront cul-de-sac. A soundtrack synchronized to the thousands of flashing lights plays over the radio on FM90.5. The full cycle lasts nearly five minutes. There is no official count of the spectators, but on the night The Journal attended scores of cars lined up along the streets of the quiet neighborhood for a chance to take in a light show put on by one of the richest people in the world." And there's video: more ›

Last Friday, Mayor Bloomberg allowed reporters to take a peek at his taxes. Guess what—he's still crazy rich, since he's able to not only put $500,000 into a trust for his ex-wife, he's also put over $1 million into a trust for an ex-girlfriend! more ›

Tonight is the NBA's draft lottery, where teams learn what their pecking order will be in the actual draft, which is on June 24. Since the Nets had the worst record in the league—12-70—they have the best chance of getting the first pick (due to a weighted lottery system) and are guaranteed no lower than the fourth pick. And guess who's excited for the new season? The Nyets' new owner, Mikahil Prokhorov—at least, we think he's excited, though his video address to fans shows him to be, uh, pretty calm. But he's funny too, because he's expecting the team to make the playoffs next year, with a championship in one year minimum, five years max: more ›

The wife of an Upper East Side hedge fund billionaire grabbed a homosexual worker's privates and told him he needed a "good f---" to make him straight, according to a sexual harassment suit filed by the former employee. William Gamble, 47, accused Lisa Maria Falcone of trying force herself on him—then punching him in the gut when he said no. more ›

Western NY billionaire—and three time NY gubernatorial candidate—Tom Golisano has had it with New York's taxes so he's changing his legal address to Florida. Hey, if only the little people had residences in Florida too! Notably, it's the increased taxes to wealthier individuals that has Golisano riled up. The Buffalo News reports, "Golisano told a gathering of Rochester business executives that he will remain as owner of the Buffalo hockey team, but he is fleeing the Empire State to avoid paying $13,000 a day in state income taxes. While Golisano said his move will not end his role as outspoken critic of New York state government, it remains uncertain how seriously his cause will be taken at the State Capitol as a resident of the Town of Naples, Fla." Golisano, who is working with another billionaire, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on possibly revamping the Independence Party, says he'll use the money he's saving (over one year, that would be about $4.75 million) to finance charities and maybe his political action committee. more ›

Yesterday, the City Council introduced the bill that would permanently extend term limits from two terms to three. The Daily News spoke to "opponents of the bill" who says the legislation is "being rushed through"--and may come up for a vote in two weeks. A source confirms to the Post, "They're really fast-tracking it because of the mounting opposition." more ›

Today, the NY Times reports that billionaire Ronald Lauder opposes Mayor Bloomberg's and the City Council's plan for legislation to permanently extend term limits from two four-year terms to three four-year terms. But the NY Post reports\ that Lauder, who help fund the initiatives to introduce term limits in the first place, made a deal with Bloomberg where Lauder would "support legislation...in exchange for a guaranteed seat on a Charter-revision commission." more ›