PartyGaming - In The Money
Published: Friday, August 19, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
IN THE MONEY
Four online billionaires in latest Forbes list.
Forbes magazine recently reported the newest gaming billionaires are four Gibraltar-based online gamers who took their company, PartyGaming, public last month. They are worth a combined $8 billion.
The four are founders Anurag Dikshit, 32 and Vikrant Bhargava, 33, both graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology, who own the company with American husband-and-wife team Ruth Parasol and Russ DeLeon, both Harvard Law School graduates. They retain 77 per cent of the company post-listing.
Also in the magazine's gaming industry billionaire's club: Sheldon Adelson ($11.9 billion), Kirk Kerkorian ($9.5 billion), Steve Wynn ($1.9 billion), Bill Boyd ($1.6 billion) and Phil Ruffin ($1.3 billion).
