Edward Bass
Fort Worth, Texas
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University
United States
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oil, investments
$2,300,000,000
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#1057 Billionaires 2019
#344 Forbes 400 2018
In 1959 Edward Bass and his three brothers inherited $2.8 million each from oil tycoon uncle Sid Richardson. The brothers parlayed their inheritance into multi-billion dollar fortunes with the help of bets on oil and pipelines that paid off big. In early 2017 Bass and his three brothers sold their oil company to ExxonMobil for $5.6 billion in stock. Future payouts could total $1 billion. In 2018 Bass donated $160 million to the refurbishment of the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
In 1991 Bass spent $150 million backing the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona, an experimental enclosed system designed to prove that humans could live in space.He also led development of Fort Worth's Sundance Square, where the Bass Performance Hall is said to be one of the top 10 opera houses in the world.
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