The Real Lives of the Rich and Famous

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LIVE: Jackie Kennedy - The Onassis Years​

As Jackie Kennedy Onassis stood with her new husband, Aristotle Onassis, the couple embodied an enigma that would forever alter their legacies—melding tragedy, controversy, and an undeniable allure into the annals of 20th-century lore.
Step back to the crisp autumn of 1968, when the Ionian Sea's shimmering waters witnessed an extraordinary union on the secluded island of Scorpios .
Here, Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and America's widowed First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, intertwined their destinies in a wedding that sent shockwaves through high societies of Europe and the United States.
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LIVE: Jackie Kennedy - The Onassis Years

 

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The Swarovski Family: How Crystals Built a $4 Billion Empire​

May 15, 2025
Their crystal kingdom spans three thousand stores in one hundred and seventy countries, selling glorified glass that commands prices and devotion rivaling natural gemstones.
Within those precisely-cut facets lies the true brilliance – how five generations transformed fragility into strength, transparency into mystery, and commonplace material into objects of universal desire.
The Swarovski family sits atop a glittering empire worth a cool four billion dollars, having pulled off the ultimate alchemist's trick – turning ordinary glass into objects the whole world lusts after.
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The Swarovski Family: How Crystals Built a $4 Billion Empire

 

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The $40 Billion Nazi Fortune Behind Your Morning Coffee​

May 17, 2025
If you haven't heard, the world's most successful business strategy isn't disruption or innovation – it's complete invisibility while owning everything you touch. Indeed, four German siblings worth fifty billion dollars have inherited an empire with a dark past that profits from your morning coffee, your office lunch, and now even your insurance premiums. The Reimann family of Germany doesn't just control billions—they practically own the morning routine of half the planet.
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The $40 Billion Nazi Fortune Behind Your Morning Coffee

 

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Inside Putin's $76 Trillion Shadow Empire: How One Man Controls Russia's Oligarch Families​

May 22, 2025
Indeed, there are no numbered Swiss accounts or offshore trusts with Putin's name – those are amateur methods employed by lesser autocrats. Instead, he has constructed an economic universe where loyalty creates access to unlimited resources without the inconvenient paper trail of actual possession.
The greatest sleight of hand in modern history isn't performed in Las Vegas theaters but in the Kremlin's corridors, where Vladimir Putin has engineered a shadow fortune so vast it makes Elon Musk look like a corner shop owner.
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Inside Putin's $76 Trillion Shadow Empire: How One Man Controls

 

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The $5 Billion NYC Landlords You’ve Never Heard Of: The Rudins​

May 31, 2025
Their thirty-two properties include three thousand five hundred apartments and commercial landmarks across New York's most exclusive neighborhoods, forming enough space to house a small city while maintaining the anonymity typically reserved for witness protection programs.
Louis Rudinsky arrived from Lithuania in 1884, starting with a small dry goods store on the Lower East Side before purchasing his first real estate holding in 1905—a four-story brownstone at 153 East Fifty-fourth Street.
This single brownstone became the cornerstone of what would eventually grow into a multi-billion-dollar empire, guided by Louis's directive to his children that would shape family philosophy for over a century: never sell this property and acquire all surrounding buildings.
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The $5 Billion NYC Landlords You’ve Never Heard Of: The Rudins