Rank #1425
Edward Bass
Net worth $3.0B
Oil, investments · United States
- Born
- Sep 10, 1945
- Age
- 80
- Source
- Oil, investments
- Residence
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University
Net worth over time
Biography
- In 1959 Edward Bass and his three brothers inherited $2.8 million each from oil tycoon uncle Sid Richardson.
- The brothers parlayed their inheritance into multi-billion dollar fortunes with the help of bets on oil and pipelines that paid off big.
- In early 2017, Bass and his three brothers sold their oil company to ExxonMobil for $5.6 billion in stock. Future payouts could total $1 billion.
- In 2018, Bass pledged $160 million to refurbish the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
- Bass owns Sundance Square, a 37-block area of downtown Fort Worth dedicated to historical preservation and community building.
- In 1991, Bass spent $150 million backing the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona, an experimental enclosed system designed to prove that humans could live in space.
- Bass spearheaded development of Fort Worth's Dickies Arena, built with $540 million in public and private funds.
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