Top Five Weird Billionaires

Among the people well known as having fabulous fortunes, there are also the rich men who spend too much, or those who drive the same car for 15 years and do shopping in the  clearance area. They are the most weird billionaires and they didn’t heard for sure about the economic crisis.

Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in the world. A fortune estimated at 22.9 billion dollars. She owns the L’Oreal cosmetics empire. She is considered as being eccentric because she made gifts that worth 1 billion dollars to a photographer.

The sultan of Brunei is a billionaire who has a true passion for cars. He owns an impressive collection of cars which has thousands of models, some made especially for him. All the cars worth about 4 billion dollars. He is mentioned in the  Guinness Book of Records with a purchase of a number of 500 Rolls Royce cars. He owns a Formula 1 car from every team, starting with the year 1980. The sultan has also 531 Mercedes automobiles, 367 Ferrari, 362 Bentley, 185 BMW cars, 177 Jaguar, 160 Porsche and 20 Lamborghini, besides the only Combi Ferrari in the world. Neither his home is not ordinary, having 1.788 rooms and 257 bathrooms.

Warren Buffet is another weird billionaire. If those from the 4 and 5 positions spent a lot, Warren Buffet lives in the same house purchased 41 years ago, even if his fortune worths 62 billion dollars. He will donate his fortune to charity events and 83% of the entire fortune will go to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2006 he had no phone and computer. He is 79 years old.

Richard Branson founded Virgin brand -renamed as Zavii Brand at the end of year 2007. This billionaire tried to reach several world records. In 1991, the billionaire crossed the Pacific Ocean flying with a balloon, with the record speed of 394 km / h. Between 1995 and 1998, Branson has tried, along with Per Lindstrand and Steve Fossett to go around the Earth with a balloon. Richard Branson created the first agency of spatial tourism, named Virgin Galactic, which will send people in space for a fee of $200 000,000.

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad, the founder of IKEA empire used to eat in his stores and bought gifts and wrap paper after holidays, at clearance. Kamprad started the IKEA business when he was 17 years old, by using an amount of money received from his father. He is the richest man in Europe and is situated on the 7th place in the world by his fortune of 31 billion dollars.