Rank #1006
Sid Bass
Net worth $4.2B
Oil, investments · United States
- Born
- Apr 09, 1942
- Age
- 84
- Source
- Oil, investments
- Residence
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Stanford University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Sid Bass inherited several million dollars from his oil tycoon great-uncle Sid Richardson in 1959. He's been diversifying ever since.
- Bass has nurtured the careers of famed investors like Richard Rainwater.
- He personally negotiated the $6 billion sale of Bass oilfields in 2017 with then ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson.
- He rescued ice cream maker Blue Bell with an investment after a 2015 listeria outbreak.
- The 2018 Malibu wildfires destroyed the Frank Gehry-designed home Bass bought there in 2015 for $15 million.
- A September 2001 margin call wiped out billions worth of Bass-owned shares in Disney.
Financial assets
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