Name
Robert Rowling
Robert Rowling
Dallas, Texas
Bachelor of Arts/Science, The University of Texas at Austin | Doctor of Jurisprudence, Southern Methodist University
United States
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hotels, investments
$5,600,000,000
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#334 Billionaires 2019
#107 Forbes 400 2018
In 1996 he reinvested $500 million from selling the family's oilfields into the purchase of Omni Hotels. The Omni chain has 60 locations and 21,000 rooms nationwide with big new hotels in Dallas, Atlanta and Boston. In 2004 Rowling bought Gold's Gym, which Arnold made famous; it now has more than 700 locations worldwide. He gave $25 million to the University of Texas business school in 2013.
Big Republican donor, he would rather see a Pence/Rubio ticket in 2020.
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