Rank #1808
Steven Witkoff & family
Net worth $2.3B
Real estate · United States
- Born
- Mar 15, 1957
- Age
- 69
- Source
- Real estate
- Residence
- Miami, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Hofstra University; JD, Hofstra University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Steven Witkoff is the founder and chairman of Witkoff Group, a real estate development firm he founded in New York in 1997.
- Witkoff Group's developments include luxury condos, hotels, golf courses and apartment buildings in New York, Los Angeles and Florida.
- Friends with Donald Trump since the early 1990s, Witkoff was appointed as Trump's special envoy to the Middle East in November 2024.
- As Middle East envoy, Witkoff helped negotiate a peace deal in Gaza between Israel and Hamas in October 2025.
- In 2025, he was also tasked with negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program.
- Witkoff was a real estate lawyer and then started buying apartments and offices with his former colleague Larry Gluck before going it alone in 1997.
- Witkoff and his family own an estimated 6.4% interest Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial.
- Witkoff and Trump first met when Witkoff was a real estate lawyer in the late 1980s and Trump was a client; Witkoff bought him a sandwich.