Henry Kravis Portrait of New York Rich

Henry Kravis,
Net worth: $5.5 billion
A partner in respected/feared leveraged-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Kravis became rich using a strategy:
poach struggling, debt-saddled companies, rework the balance sheets and sell for profit. Kravis sits on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and owns homes in Manhattan; Southampton; Palm Beach, Florida; Sharon, Connecticut; Meeker, Colorado; Paris and the Dominican Republic. [from timeout New York]