Nicky Oppenheimer & family
$10.6B
Born
Jun 08, 1945
Age
80
Source of Wealth
Diamonds
Residence
Johannesburg,
Citizenship
South Africa
Marital Status
Married
Children
1
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Oxford U Christ Church; Master of Arts, Oxford U Christ Church
- Nicky Oppenheimer, heir to the De Beers diamond fortune, sold his 40% of the firm to mining group Anglo American for $5.1 billion in cash in 2012.
- He was the third generation of his family to run De Beers, and took the company private in 2001.
- For 85 years until 2012, the Oppenheimer family occupied a controlling spot in the world's diamond trade.
- In 2014, Oppenheimer started Fireblade Aviation in Johannesburg, which operates chartered flights.
- He owns at least 720 square miles of conservation land across South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
- In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Oppenheimer donated more than $110 million to South African small businesses.
- Oppenheimer is a sports fan and plays squash, golf and cricket. Notepads in his office read: "Things I must do before cricket".
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