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June 29, 2025

What counts as rich, and how much should it bother the rest of us? The groom at the "wedding of the year" ranks third on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of $244bn, which is about 4m times median US earnings and roughly 0.9% of US annual GDP.

- Giles Whittell

Bookseller gets hitched

For comparison, John D Rockefeller's net worth of $1.4bn on his death, in 1937, was around 3m times average individual earnings but 1.5% of US GDP.

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