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Richest Americans - #18

Thursday, September 20, 2007provided by

Carl Icahn

Net Worth: $14.5 billion
Source: Leveraged buyouts
Residence: New York City
Age: 71
Marital Status: Divorced, remarried; 2 children

• Grew up NYC's Queens.
• Studied philosophy at Princeton.
• Went to Wall Street with $4,000 in poker winnings.
• Gained reputation for buying into troubled companies, forcing management to improve, restructure, buy back stock; scores in 1980s with Texaco, USX.
• Once considered the world's most dangerous shareholder activist; now having trouble effecting vast management changes.
• Requested Time Warner buy back stock, split company into 4 individual parts 2005; media firm repurchased $20 billion in shares but never split.
• Failed to land board seat with cell phone producer Motorola in May; initially demanded company chief Ed Zander buy back shares, now pushing for cost cuts, reorganization.
• Sold private hedge fund outfit to American Real Estate Partners; owns 90% stake in the publicly traded holding company that controls casinos, real estate, home fashion. Reason: power.
• Renaming company Icahn Enterprises; shares up 140% over past 12 months.

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