Net Worth: $27 billion
Source: Mining, oil
Residence: Brazil
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• Vowing to become world's richest man--and he may be on his way. This year's biggest gainer added $19.5 billion to his personal balance sheet.
• Son of Brazil's revered former mining minister who presided over mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce got his start in gold trading and mining. Insists Dad didn't help: "All my businesses started from zero. My father was a problem for me because he never let me near Vale."
• Made a pile in resources and other services, but two-thirds of his fortune comes from relatively new source, OGX Petróleo e Gas Participações, the oil-and-gas exploration company he founded in 2007 and took public a year later.
• Police raided his home in 2008, alleging Batista smuggled gold and unfairly influenced the acquisition of a railroad. He denied all wrongdoing, emerged unscathed.
• Onetime champion offshore powerboat racer.
• Formerly married to Playboy cover girl.
• Provided financing to Rio de Janeiro's Olympic committee, helping the city win its bid for 2016 Olympic Games.
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109029/worlds-billionaires-2010
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