Jenna Jameson

By the age of four, Jenna Jameson had already decided to become famous, and she knew how she wanted to do it. For a little girl growing up in Nevada in the 1970s, a world short on role models for women, it wasn't unrealistic, and she seemed to have a head start: she was going to be a television newsreader. At the time her father was a producer at a Las Vegas television station. Every now and again he would let her come with him to the studio...

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Russell Simmons

Russell Simmons heads an empire built by rap music. As cofounder of the pioneering record label Def Jam in the 1980s, he helped launch the careers of a number of important artists, such as Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys. His empire includes a clothing line and even an energy drink, but it is his social activism that has caused some to say he might one day make an ideal mayor of New York City. Simmons is often described...

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Mary Kay Ash

 If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.   Mary Kay Ash is the Founder of the extremely popular Mary Kay line of beauty stores around the world. After her retirement from a sales job, she started her first store with $5000 she had as her life savings. She then grew the company to reach over $1 billion in sales. Mary Kay Ash is the founder of Mary Kay Inc which has been included in the list of “The...

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Liliane Bettencourt

"Not a week, not a month, not an evening has gone by recently without the radio, the television and the magazines talking about the billionaire and her gigolo," railed France's most celebrated lawyer, George Kiejman, over the extraordinary story that has France spellbound. The billionaire in question is L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. The "gigolo" is celebrity photographer and society...

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Hugh Marston Hefner

Hugh Marston Hefner joined the army after graduating from high school and went on to study art at the Chicago Art Institute. He then worked for various magazines, including Esquire, but when the magazine moved its offices to New York, Hefner remained in Chicago to start his own magazine. The first issue of Playboy magazine, featuring a now-famous photograph of Marilyn Monroe, was produced on a kitchen table in his apartment. Hitting...

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Warren Buffett

  Early life Buffett was born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of a stockbroker and Congressman, and has become probably the world’s most successful investor. As a boy, irrespective of his family background, he delivered newspapers to make extra money and this probably sparked his interest in the media where he has made several successful investments including the Washington Post Company, a stock that has made him a lot of money...

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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

Summary "Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson" (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called "Student". He then set up a record mail-order business in 1970. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores and rebranded as Zavvi in late...

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