Rank #2584
Peter Guber
Net worth $1.5B
Sports teams, movies · United States
- Born
- Mar 01, 1942
- Age
- 84
- Source
- Sports teams, movies
- Residence
- Los Angeles, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- JD, New York University; LLM, New York University; Bachelor of Arts, Syracuse University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Peter Guber, a longtime movie executive, owns stakes in several pro sports teams, most notably the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
- Guber was part of a group led by Joe Lacob in 2010 that bought the Warriors for $450 million; Forbes now values the team at $8.8 billion.
- Guber owns an estimated 15% of the Warriors and is co-executive chairman alongside Lacob.
- He also owns an estimated 3% of the LA Dodgers baseball team and is executive chair and co-owner of the Major League Soccer team Los Angeles FC.
- At Columbia Pictures and Polygram Entertainment, Guber oversaw production of hit movies including Rain Man, The Color Purple, Batman and more.
- Guber is also an author whose book Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune In Hollywood became a TV series on AMC.
- Guber was recruited by Columbia Pictures while pursuing an MBA at New York University in the late 1960s.