Ty Warner
Oak Brook, Illinois
Drop Out, Kalamazoo College
United States
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real estate, plush toys, Self Made
$2,700,000,000
877
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#877 Billionaires 2019
#316 Forbes 400 2018
Ty Warner is the creator of Beanie Babies, the plush toy fad of the 1990s. Warner now gets a chunk of his fortune from his high-end-hotel portfolio, which includes the Four Seasons in New York. His Ty Inc. still sells a related Beanie Baby toy called a Beanie Boo around the world.His Las Ventanas al Paraiso resort in Mexico rents its Ty Warner Mansion for $35,000 a night.Warner has donated $100 million in cash and toys to the Children's Hunger Fund since 2005.
A onetime bellman, valet car parker and fruit-market vendor, Warner found his calling as a salesmen-- peddling encyclopedias and later selling toys at Dakin.Warner was convicted of tax evasion and paid a $53 million fine in 2013 for stashing money in a Swiss bank, but avoided jail time.
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