Rank #957
Jose Roberto Marinho
Net worth $4.5B
Media · Brazil
- Born
- Dec 26, 1955
- Age
- 70
- Source
- Media
- Residence
- Rio de Janeiro
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 5
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jose Roberto Marinho and his two billionaire brothers, Joao Roberto and Roberto Irineu, inherited control of Globo, Brazil's largest media group.
- Their grandfather started Globo in 1925 by launching a newspaper. He died 25 days after the first issue was published so his oldest son took over.
- Globo Group owns Brazil's largest TV broadcaster, Rede Globo; Brazil's largest newspaper company, and Globosat, Brazil's largest pay TV provider.
- In 1991, Jose Roberto founded CBN, the first Brazilian radio to broadcast 24 hours of news.
- Jose Roberto leads the family's philanthropy through Roberto Marinho Foundation, which created the world's first museum to dedicated to Portuguese.
- In 1992, he founded Acqua Institute, an entity that focuses on the preservation of water resources.