Several multimillionaires among the wealthiest individuals on the planet have found themselves at Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) in Florida at various times over the past few months. This information comes from Bloomberg.
Palm Beach is home to Mar-a-Lago, the estate owned by the elected U.S. President Donald Trump.
The agency analyzed flight data from private jets collected using the JetSpy platform. According to their findings, personal aircraft belonging to six of the ten richest people in the world have landed at Palm Beach Airport in recent months.
Since November, they have arrived at the airport a total of 25 times, compared to only ten visits to Palm Beach the previous year.
The city has notably been visited by Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg (Bloomberg estimates his wealth at $217 billion), Alphabet Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin ($163 billion), and Amazon founders Jeff Bezos ($245 billion) and Microsoft’s Bill Gates ($162 billion).
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The publication also calculated the net worth of the richest person in the world, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk ($449 billion according to Bloomberg).
The New York Times and other outlets have reported that the entrepreneur has effectively been living in Trump’s residence since the election.
Additionally, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has visited Palm Beach. Trump’s estate has transformed into a new center of power in recent months, Bloomberg writes.
Trump's inauguration is scheduled for January 20. He has invited around a dozen billionaires to various positions, including diplomatic roles, for his second administration.
These include Musk, Jared Isaacman, Vivek Ramaswamy, Jared Kushner, Warren Stephens, Linda McMahon, Howard Lutnick, Kelly Loeffler, and Thomas Barrack Jr. Their combined wealth exceeds $340 billion.
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Several billionaires were also part of Trump’s previous administration. The government formed at that time turned out to be the wealthiest in history.