Rank #445
Ty Warner
Net worth $8.1B
Plush toys, real estate · United States
- Born
- Sep 03, 1944
- Age
- 81
- Source
- Plush toys, real estate
- Residence
- Oak Brook, Illinois
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Drop Out, Kalamazoo College
Net worth over time
Biography
- Ty Warner is the creator of Beanie Babies, the plush toy fad of the 1990s.
- Warner used the profits from selling Beanie Babies to assemble a high-end hotel portfolio, including the Four Seasons in New York.
- Ty Inc. still sells Beanie Babies but has expanded its offerings to include toys like Beanie Boos and Beanie Bellies.
- His Las Ventanas al Paraiso resort in Mexico rents its Ty Warner Mansion for $35,000 a night.
- Warner has donated $100 million in cash and toys to the Children's Hunger Fund since 2005.
- A onetime bellman, car valet and fruit market vendor, Warner found his calling as a salesman, peddling encyclopedias and later stuffed animals at toymaker Dakin.
- Warner was convicted of tax evasion and paid a $53 million fine in 2013 for stashing money in a Swiss bank, but avoided jail time.
- Zach Galifianakis played Warner in the 2023 fictionalized drama film "The Beanie Bubble."
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