{"id":1178,"date":"2005-03-12T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1178"},"modified":"2005-03-14T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T19:25:12","slug":"bill_gates_warr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/12\/bill_gates_warr\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/4337493.stm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mittal.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/Mittal.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" align=left hspace=20\/><\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/2005\/03\/10\/cx_pm_0310mittal_bill05.html\">Lakshmi Mittal<\/a> are numbers one, two and three in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/worldsrichest\/\">Forbes&#8217; billionaires list<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>In raw dollars, no one had a better year that Lakshmi Mittal.\n\nThe London-based, Rajasthan-born steel baron was the biggest dollar gainer on this year&#8217;s listing of the world&#8217;s billionaires, adding $18.8 billion to his net worth.\n\nThat took him to $25 billion, sufficient to vault the 54-year old Mittal a full 59 places up the billionaire ranks, making him the third-richest man on the planet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/2005\/03\/10\/cx_pm_0310mittal_bill05.html\"> [cite]<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>That puts him just ahead of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud and the head of Ikea. He is roughly 35 times as wealthy as the Queen of England. Rumors persist that he is planning to marry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000463\/\">Famke Jansen<\/a> and change his last name to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesbondmm.co.uk\/bond-villains\/famke-janssen.php\">Onatopp<\/a>. Similar rumors persist that you can get in touch with Mr. Mittal by leaving a comment in this blog asking for his email address, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/library\/blmsaol.htm\">Bill Gates is giving away money to anybody who forwards chain emails claiming to be from him<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/2005\/03\/10\/cx_pm_0310mittal_bill05.html\">Forbes on Mittal<\/a>, or see our previous posts about him: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000623.html\">World\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122s biggest steel company will be desi-owned<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000808.html\"><em>Forbes<\/em> names India\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122s richest<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Lakshmi Mittal are numbers one, two and three in this year&#8217;s Forbes&#8217; billionaires list. In raw dollars, no one had a better year that Lakshmi Mittal. The London-based, Rajasthan-born steel baron was the biggest dollar gainer on this year&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/12\/bill_gates_warr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}