Norman Braman
Miami, Florida
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Temple University
United States
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art, car dealerships, Self Made
$2,500,000,000
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#962 Billionaires 2019
#344 Forbes 400 2018
Norman Braman owns one of Florida's largest car dealerships, Braman Motorcars, with six locations and more than $2 billion in annual revenue.Braman made his first fortune retailing vitamins and drugs, but now sells BMWs, Porsches, Rolls-Royces, Hondas and Hyundais in Florida and Colorado.Born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents, Braman was a waterboy for the Eagles, a team he bought in 1985 and sold in 1994 for a $120 million profit.An avid art collector, he helped bring the prestigious Swiss art fair, Art Basel, to Miami in 2002.He and his wife funded the construction of Miami's Institute for Contemporary Art, a free museum which opened in 2017.
While Braman was in college, he worked at a retail store in downtown Philadelphia where he says he earned 50 cents an hour.
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