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Who died and left the US $7B?
It was the biggest estate-tax payment in modern history, but no one knew who made it. Then an anonymous phone call pointed to one man....
The most profound revelation in Thomas Piketty’s era-defining “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” wasn’t that we were experiencing Gilded Age levels of inequality, but his argument that Forbes’ list of the ultrawealthy isn’t accurate — and we don’t really know the billionaires living among us, or the extent of their wealth. As Texas Monthly wrote in 2000: “He spends most of his days at his office on the twenty-ninth floor of Two Houston Center, dressed as always in a tailored three-piece suit, silently smoking a cigar, his owlish face contemplative, as if he might never speak again but gradually turn into a monument.” He made headway into Houston society, marrying Louisa Stude, the adopted daughter of the founder of Brown & Root, the enormous oil-services company, and bought a mansion in the tony River Oaks neighborhood.
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