Rank #379
Todd Boehly
Net worth $9.3B
Finance · United States
- Born
- Sep 20, 1973
- Age
- 52
- Source
- Finance
- Residence
- Darien, Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Business Administration, College of William & Mary
Net worth over time
Biography
- Todd Boehly cofounded holding company Eldridge Industries in 2015, after building Guggenheim Partners' credit business and serving as president.
- The company acquired some of his first assets from Guggenheim, including insurer Security Benefit, which provides deal financing to this day.
- Eldridge Industries has grown into a diverse conglomerate with investments ranging from Bruce Springsteen's song rights to daily fantasy and sports-betting firm DraftKings.
- Boehly personally holds minority stakes in the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Dodgers (Eldridge has a separate minority stake in the latter).
- A group led by Boehly reached a record deal to buy soccer team Chelsea FC from Russian owner Roman Abramovich for $3.1 billion in 2022.
- Boehly and his wife Katie, who met at Wiliam and Mary, gave an undisclosed sum to the college to build the Boehly Center for Excellence in Finance.
- Boehly slept on a park bench in Kansas while scouting Security Benefit for Guggenheim, because his hotel room smelled like cigarettes.