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A South Korean court ordered an AI chip-manufacturing tycoon on Friday to make a trimmed-down $644 million divorce payment to his former wife.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Crypto tycoon Justin Sun boasted of having invested $75 million with a Trump-linked crypto firm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Now, the tycoon is reaping the benefits: The refinery reached full capacity in February—just in time to supply global markets with fuel that doesn’t need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

In an article published on Substack, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for many years Russia’s top oil tycoon and now a leading opposition figure, explained why the damage to the refining industry is so severe.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

As a result of the scam, Woodhull tricked the seventy-four-year-old tycoon into believing she and her sister had mystical powers.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Equity receivership, a bankruptcy-like proceeding used to reorganize troubled companies, was a favorite method that many of these tycoons deployed to outplay their rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

But the prosecution failed to provide evidence she awarded contracts to any of the oil tycoons named because of bribes.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Henry Ford described Five-Dollar Day in terms rarely used by industrial tycoons.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

Lore goes that when Alec Guinness received the “Coronets” script with an offer to play four of the ill-fated tycoons, he wrote back greedily and said, “Why not eight?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Over the course of the chapters ahead, I’m going to introduce you to one kind of outlier after another: to geniuses, business tycoons, rock stars, and software programmers.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell