10 rich will not leave their wealth to their children
Many wealthy businessmen in the world are working hard to raise a fortune that offers their children a luxurious life, but some of the wealthiest people in the world have decided not to leave their wealth to their children.
"Business Insider" lists a list of high-net worth individuals who will leave nothing to their children:
- Bill Gates
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, plans to leave most of his $ 89.6 billion fortune for charity. Gates and his wife have the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charity, designed to help people lead a healthy and productive life.
Gates has three children, each of whom will inherit only $ 10 million, which is equivalent to 0.01116 percent of his wealth. Gates sees leaving large amounts of money for children not in their favor, and his sons are said to be happy not to inherit it.
- Warren Buffett
Buffett is the second richest man in the world with a fortune of $ 78.9 billion. Buffett is the executive director of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns shares in dozens of companies including Kraft Heinz, American Express, Apple, .
Buffett plans to leave 100% of his wealth at the time of his death to various charities and not to give anything directly to his children. Instead, he promised to donate about $ 2.1 billion to each charity to his three children as a reward for their success.
Most of his wealth will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.
- Mark Zuckerberg
After the birth of his first daughter, Max, the founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg, whose fortune is $ 74 billion, has announced a social networking publication that he and his wife will pledge 99% of the child's inheritance to charities. Zuckerberg told his daughter through the publication He wants her to grow up in a better world than his world today.
The couple launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which aims to promote human potential and promote equal opportunities.
- Michael Bloomberg
The founder and CEO of Bloomberg owns a fortune of $ 47.1 billion, the world's 10th richest. Bloomberg, who was the former mayor of New York City, announced that he would donate all his wealth before his death and that most would go to Bloomberg's charity initiative.
- Pierre Omidyar
Omidyar founded eBay in 1995 and served as its chairman until 2015, and began selling its stake in the site gradually, and now has a $ 10.1 billion fortune.
Omidyar's projects include a venture capital firm specializing in the technology sector, a press platform and a charity called Omidyar Network.
Omidyar has three children. His wife, Pam, and his wife, Pam, signed a "pledge of tender" in 2010, a campaign launched by Bill Gates, his wife and Warren Buffett to encourage wealthy elites to donate most of their wealth to charity. Signed by billionaires and wealthy.
Omidyar said in the pledge letter that he felt he had more money than his family would need, and there was no need to keep it if it could be used to solve some of the world's problems.
- George Lucas
Is a director, producer and screenwriter who is famous for producing and directing Star Wars. He owns a $ 5.3 billion bull and has four children, but he has decided to donate most of his wealth to charity education projects.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation, which aims to improve educational practices in schools, has been created to ensure that children have the maximum benefit of education.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
The English composer's fortune is about $ 1.2 billion and he has five children, but he told the Daily Mirror in 2008 that he had not planned to leave his fortune to his children, and that this did not bother them because they did not think so, adding that he was never satisfied with the money he inherited .
- Simon Cowell
Is an English presenter, television producer and jury member on several programs such as X Factor and UK Jute Talent.
His annual salary is estimated at $ 95 million, with a fortune of about $ 550 million. He said in a television interview in 2013 that he was not convinced of the legacy of money from generation to generation, but it was not known if Coyle was still convinced of the same thing after the birth of his son Eric, Interview in early 2014.
Coyle is expected to donate most of his fortune after his death to charities helping children and animals.
- Sting
An English singer who has won numerous awards including 16 Grammy Awards and 3 other awards, Brett and the Golden Globe, with a fortune of $ 300 million.
Sting has 6 children, yet he announced in an interview in 2014 that he would not leave a penny of his wealth to his children, adding that he told them that he would not have much money left, because he and his wife would spend a lot of their commitments. They work.
- Gordon Ramsay
Ramsey owns and operates 40 restaurants around the world, with a fortune of $ 60 million. Although he has four children, he does not intend to leave his wealth. They always travel on economy, while Ramsay and his wife travel Business.
Ramzi and his wife decided not to leave their wealth to their children for not spoiling them. They agreed that the only thing they could leave was to pay 25% of the apartment's owner, but not the price of the whole apartment.
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