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Name

Sid Bass

Primary Residence

Fort Worth, Texas

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University | Master of Business Administration, Stanford University

Citizenship

United States

Forbes Self Made Score

Source Of Wealth

oil, investments

Net Worth

$3,300,000,000

Forbes Profile

https://www.forbes.com/profile/sid-bass

Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:

691

Forbes Philanthropy Score

Forbes List Rank One: Title

#691 Billionaires 2019

Forbes List Rank One: Link

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Forbes List Rank Two: Title

#232 Forbes 400 2018

Forbes List Rank Two: Link

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Summary

Sid Bass inherited several million dollars from his oil tycoon great-uncle Sid Richardson in 1959. He's been diversifying ever since. Bass has nurtured the careers of famed investors like Richard Rainwater. He personally negotiated the $6 billion sale of Bass oilfields in 2017 with then ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson. He rescued ice cream maker Blue Bell with a $125 million loan after a 2015 listeria outbreak.

Did you know?

He is said to have bought actor Patrick Dempsey's Malibu compound (designed by Frank Gehry) for $15 million in 2015. A September 2001 margin call wiped out billions worth of Bass-owned shares in Disney.

Age

Number of Children

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Bass