Rank #1039
David Rubenstein
Net worth $4.1B
Private equity · United States
- Born
- Aug 11, 1949
- Age
- 76
- Source
- Private equity
- Residence
- Bethesda, Maryland
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Duke University; Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago
Net worth over time
Biography
- David Rubenstein is one of three billionaire founders of private equity firm Carlyle Group, which has $465 billion in assets under management.
- He cofounded Carlyle in 1987 with William Conway Jr. and Daniel D'Aniello. He now serves as non-executive co-chairman.
- Rubenstein got his start as a Carter Administration official and later became an attorney.
- In the early days Rubenstein raised the money and managed Carlyle's stable of advisers, which included George H.W. Bush.
- He is the controlling owner of the Baltimore Orioles, which he purchased with an investor group in 2024 for $1.75 billion.
- In 2007 Rubenstein bought one of just four surviving originals of the 13th-century Magna Carta for $24.5 million from late billionaire H. Ross Perot.
- Since 2011, Rubenstein has donated to the National Zoo to promote panda procreation through conservation efforts in China and reproductive science research.
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