Though still growing the oil business, Headington is funding another passion, moviemaking. Through GK Films , a production company he owns with Graham King , he has bankrolled more than a dozen films including " Hugo ," which won five Oscars in and " Rango ," which won for best animated film.
The returns look better for the lower-budget flicks he's invested in produced by the Film District division, such as " Drive " and " Insidious. Dan and Farris Wilks started out as bricklayers in Cisco, Texas, following in their father's footsteps. In the brothers branched out into the hydraulic fracturing and oil field services industry with the founding of Frac-Tech.
The pair recently purchased the 66, acre N Bar Ranch in Montana from fellow billionaire Tom Siebel and they are building an airport in Cisco. The peripatetic legend doesn't operate any oil and gas fields anymore, but his fortune was in oil and gas, and his investment funds still trade it actively.
We were wondering whether Boone would stay on the list this year after his divorce from wife Madeleine, but we're assured that pre-nuptial agreements ensure that the couple keeps what they brought into the relationship. One of my favorite Forbes features ever was when I convinced Boone to get a brain scan and let us publish the images in the magazine. William Macaulay runs First Reserve, the world's most respected energy-focused private equity fund. My colleague Nathan Vardi did this feature on him a few years ago.
Daniel Harrison, III is a newcomer to the list. The deal appears to be the biggest ever for a family with deep roots in Texas oil. His grandfather, the first Dan Harrison, was a legendary Texas oilman, teaming up with J.
Abercrombie to discover gushers like the Old Ocean field in Brazoria County. He built up and oil and ranching empire across Texas. Father Dan Jr. Foster founded Western Refining in and took it public in He spent his childhood finding ways to make money from manning fireworks stands to bagging groceries. As a teenager he spent his summers in the New Mexico oil fields welding pipes, digging ditches, cleaning tanks.
He called that labor "the single biggest motivation to get an education. The veteran wildcatter, now 92, is currently involved in perhaps the biggest thrill of his career -- partnering with McMoRan Exploration to drill some of the deepest wells ever in the Gulf of Mexico. Already they've discovered the Davy Jones and Blackbeard fields, with more on the way.
Tex got his start in the business at age 10, when his father, W. So there you have them, America's oil and gas billionaires. I'm sure there's more out there. Additional photos of the Atlanta mansion at Davis Drive purchased by the Hill family…. Click here for an interactive map-based search of some of metro Atlanta's neighborhoods. Email Address:. Sign me up! That got me thinking about all the famous people that live around metro Atlanta.
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In , Cullen Davis publicly professed a conversion to the Christian faith during a Baptist church service in a Fort Worth suburb. He and his third wife became active members of an Assemblies of God congregation, dropping their high profile social lifestyle. In the mid s, creditors took Kendavis Industries to bankruptcy court to regain hundreds of millions of dollars in loans; those in the oil industry watched their fortunes plummet, and Cullen Davis faced a series of civil suits.
The tragic shootings at the Davis mansion and the lengthy trials that followed remain endlessly fascinating and controversial. Update: Karen Davis, wife of Cullen Davis for 27 years, responds: Additionally, he adopted his two sons by Karen Master Davis, which are listed in all of the genealogy books that Dorothy Anderson York has published.
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