Rank #300
Johann Graf
Net worth $10.8B
Gambling · Austria
- Born
- Jan 03, 1947
- Age
- 79
- Source
- Gambling
- Residence
- Vienna
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Johann Graf owns Novomatic Group, which operates casinos worldwide and also sells slot machines, video poker games and electronic table games.
- Raised by his grandparents in a small flat without running water, he apprenticed as a butcher and was expected to take over his family's butcher shop.
- Instead Graf began importing American pinball machines to Austria via Belgium, then became an agent for a British slot machine company.
- In 1980 he stuck out on his own with Novomatic, which he quickly expanded into Switzerland and then the East Bloc after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
- Graf collects vintage cars, mostly Jaguars.