- Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an American-based real estate developer, and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates several casinos. He received a great deal of publicity following the success of his reality television show, …
- Sam Zell
Samuel Zell , 66, has been a Director since 1984, and Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1985. He has served as Chairman of Equity Group Investments, L.L.C., a private investment company, since 1999 and its President since 2006; Zell has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Tribune Co., a diversified media company, since December 2007 and has been a Director since May 2007.
- Leona Helmsley
Leona Helmsley (born Lena Rosenthol July 4, 1920, in Ulster County, New York) is a New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989 and served 18 months in prison, after receiving an initial sentence of 16 years. United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who later became mayor of New York City and United States presidential candidate, was one of the two chief prosecutors.
- Brian Wilson
Brian "Rookie" Wilson (born 1967?) is an American real estate developer and poker player, originally from Rockford, Illinois, now based in Fort Myers, Florida. Wilson won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2005 in the $5,000 pot limit hold'em event, defeating John Gale in the final heads-up confrontation to take home the $370,685 first prize. This was the first pot limit event Wilson had ever played. He has noted that this was event #20 at the WSOP, …
- Dino Rossi
Dino Rossi (born October 15, 1959 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is a former Washington State Senator and Republican nominee for Governor of Washington in the 2004 election, one of the closest elections in state history. Currently, he is working in real estate and promoting his book "Dino Rossi: Lessons in Leadership, Business, Politics and Life"
- Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972).
- David Lereah
David Lereah gained prominence as the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Lereah served as the association's spokesman on economic forecasts, interest rates, home sales, mortgage rates, as well as other economic and policy issues and trends affecting the housing markets and real estate industry in the U.S. and abroad. On April 30, 2007, the NAR announced that in mid May Lereah would be leaving his job as chief economist to join Move Inc.
- Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein (born 1932 in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American billionaire real estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein Properties, a real estate development group. Silverstein is also a member of New York University's Board of Trustees. Silverstein is the developer and leaseholder of the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- Donald Sterling
Donald T. Sterling is an American real estate mogul and the current owner of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers. Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million, and today the team is valued at more than $240 million by Forbes magazine.
- Forest City Enterprises
Forest City Enterprises is a $9-billion diversified real estate management and development company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Its portfolio includes interests in retail centers, apartment communities, office buildings and mixed-use projects in the U.S. The company has recently expanded into military housing communities
- Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz, a member of its editorial board and former spokesman for Shimon Peres A recurring theme of his articles is what he calls the "moral blindness" of the Israeli society to the effects of its acts of war and occupation, an attitude which he attributes to the systematic dehumanization of Israel's neighbours.
- Trump Organization
The Trump Organization is the primary company of Donald Trump, a prominent American real estate developer. Trump is the current CEO of the company. The company oversees nearly all of the business development interests of Donald Trump, such as real estate, hotels, golf clubs, etc. (but excluding the casinos). Trump is Chairman of the Board of Trump Entertainment Resorts. The Trump Organization is headquartered in the Trump tower in Manhattan, New York.
- Ebby Halliday
Ebby Halliday (born March 9, 1911) is an American realtor who founded Ebby Halliday Realtors, which now sells more homes than any other broker in Texas and ranks No. 23 in the nation. She is one of the first successful female entrepreneurs in Dallas and she claims that being a woman never discouraged her. She has been commended by many in the Dallas business and real estate communities. And Halliday, at 96, still drives herself to work every day and, …
- Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump | Jewelry Ivanka Trump , daughter of none other than billionaire mogul Donald Trump, has finally announced the details her new plans to try designing jewelry. In an interview with retail publication Women's Wear Daily, Trump announced that she will be working with Dynamic Diamonds Corp., to create her own line of diamond jewelry. She also has plans to create three Ivanka Trump boutiques in which she will sell the jewelry line.
- Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin (fl. late 20th century) is a real estate author. Robert Irwin has been a licensed real estate broker for 35 years and is the author of more then 60 books on the subject. Among his publications are the Tips and Traps series of books, which have sold over one million copies. Irwin's writings cover virtually every facet of real estate and have been used for three decades by buyers, sellers, and beginning investors.
- Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality. She is part-heiress to both the Hilton Hotel fortune and the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton.
- Stanley Ho
Stanley Ho, GBS (born November 25, 1921), also known as Ho Hung-sun, Stanley Ho Hung-sun, is an entrepreneur in Hong Kong and Macau. Ho is sometimes nicknamed "The King of Gambling", reflecting the government-granted monopoly he held of the Macau gambling industry for over 35 years. Ho is the wealthiest person in Macau, and one of the wealthiest in Asia.
- Jerry Buss
Gerald Hatten “Jerry” Buss is an American professional basketball team owner, former real estate developer, and poker player.
- Jaason Simmons
Jaason Simmons (b. July 12 1970, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian actor, best known for the role of 'Logan Fowler' on the TV series "Baywatch". Jaason started to experiment with independent movies taking on controversial roles, including indie director Gregg Araki's film "Nowhere", which starred Christina Applegate and Heather Graham.
- Larry O'Brien
Lawrence "Larry" Francis O'Brien, Jr. was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists when, for more than two decades, he helped reshape American politics. The son of Irish immigrants, when he wasn't working in politics, O'Brien managed his family's real estate and did public relations work as well.
- Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall (born December 30, 1937 Danville, Kentucky) played college football at Ohio State University. He left school before his senior year, and played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was then drafted in the 4th round of the 1960 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. Marshall played the 1960 season with the Browns. He played from 1961 to 1979 with the Minnesota Vikings.
- Kevin Trudeau
Kevin Mark Trudeau (born February 6 1963) is an American author, pool player, salesman and alternative medicine advocate. He is known for a number of television infomercials selling his products, and for several books, including the controversial "Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About". Trudeau has had numerous interactions with the U.S. judicial system, including multiple fines and a larceny conviction., …
- Lev Leviev
Lev Leviev President Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist, Lev Leviev was born in the then Soviet city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1956. His father, Rabbi Avner and his mother Chana Leviev were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community. At the age of fifteen in 1971 his family emigrated to Israel.
- Gerri Willis
Gerri Willis is the anchor of CNN's weekend business program, Open House , a half-hour long weekly real estate show which presents a how-to approach on all things real estate. Willis' latest book is a timely publication titled Home Rich: Increasing the Value of the Biggest Investment of Your Life .
- John Reilly
John Reilly is a real estate broker and member of the California and Hawaii State Bar, specializing in real estate conveyance. Reilly has authored numerous articles and books on the subject of real estate, in addition to serving as an adjunct professor of Real Estate Law at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law for ten years. Reilly, with partners Saul Klein and Mike Barnett, co-founded Real Estate Electronic Publishing, …
- John Jacob Astor
John Jacob (originally either Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob) Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, the creator of the first Trust in America, from which he made his fortune in the fur trade, real estate, and opium industries.
- Johnny Isakson
John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28 1944), is an American politician, who has been the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented in the House from 1999 to 2005.
- John T. Reed
John T. Reed is a former real estate investor who has authored and self-published over twenty books. He has been recommended by the National Association of Realtors as a serious investigator in the industry.
- Dolf de Roos
Dolf de Roos is a real estate investment speaker and author with investment interests on three continents. He is the chairman of Property Ventures Ltd, a public real estate investment company, Director of Landmark Pacific Holdings Pty Ltd and a Founder and Director of Best Choice Holdings, LLC. He has written nine books on real estate, which have appeared on best seller lists in five countries, including the New York Times bestseller "Real Estate Riches".
- Casey Serin
Casey Konstantin Serin (born September 101982 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a real estate speculator and blogger. In a newspaper article, "USA Today" called him the "poster child for everything that went wrong in the real estate boom". Serin immigrated to America in 1994. In his early twenties, Serin worked as a web developer, but he decided to quit this job to pursue his dream of becoming financially independent through real estate investments.
- Penny Pritzker
Penny Pritzker (1959) is the granddaughter of Abram Nicholas Pritzker, the niece of Jay Pritzker, and the operator of Classic Residence by Hyatt for the Pritzker family. In 1981 she received a BA in Economics from Harvard University also getting a JD and MBA from Stanford University, since 2002 she has sat on Harvard's Board of Overseers. Currently, she is the head of Barack Obama's presidential campaign finances
- Michael Oliver
Michael Oliver is an immigrant of Jewish descent, Las Vegas real estate millionaire and political activist. He was the founder of the micronation project the Republic of Minerva, a failed attempt to create a sovereign state in the South Pacific in 1972. In the following decades, Oliver and his Phoenix Foundation were also involved in similar projects on the Bahamian island of Abaco and in Vanuatu with the New Hebrides Autonomy Movement (MANH).
- Carleton Sheets
Carleton Sheets (name often misspelled as "Carlton") (born August 25, 1939) is head of the Professional Education Institute. The group uses infomercials to sell real estate investing literature, audio, and video to beginners. Sheets claims that beginners (even those with bad credit) can purchase property for "no money down." He has degrees in business, psychology, and speech from Ohio Wesleyan University (1961).
- David Walters
David Lee Walters was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Walters was born near Canute, Oklahoma. He graduated as valedictorian from Canute High School in 1969. He later graduated from University of Oklahoma in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. In 1977 he earned his master's degree in business administration from Harvard University. He became the project manager for Gov. David Boren.
- Thelma Drake
Thelma D. Drake (b. November 20 1949, Elyria, Ohio) is a member of the Republican party from the state of Virginia. She was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent the Second Congressional District of Virginia. Thelma Drake attended Elyria High School and Old Dominion University. She worked as a real estate agent in Norfolk, …
- Ozzie Jurock
Ozzie Jurock (born Oswald Erich Jurock, 1944 in Cologne, Germany) is a Vancouver, BC-based entrepreneur, real estate advisor, columnist, author and motivational speaker. He is currently the president of Jurock Publishing Ltd. and president of Jurock International Net Inc., the parent company of FeatureWeb and Jurock.com. He was formerly president of Royal LePage (Res.) and NRS Block Bros. and has managed real estate companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
- Bill Leonard
William R. Leonard (born 1947) is a Republican U.S. politician, who has been a member of the California State Board of Equalization since his election to the board in 2002. After earning his B.A. in history from the University of California, Irvine, Leonard worked in real estate and property management.
- Neal Smith
Neal Smith (born September 23, 1947 in Akron, Ohio) was the drummer for the rock group Alice Cooper from 1969 to 1974. He performed on the group's early albums "Pretties For You" and "Easy Action", the breakout album "Love It to Death" and the subsequent successful albums "Killer", "School's Out (album)", and "Billion Dollar Babies". His last album with Alice Cooper was "Muscle of Love".
- Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. "Julius Knipl" has been published in several book collections including "Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay" and "The Beauty Supply District".
- Ruth Johnson
Ruth Johnson is a Michigan politician. She is the County Clerk / Register of Deeds for Oakland County, and was the 2006 Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor as the running mate of Dick DeVos. Since the election she has tried to distance herself from DeVos on several levels, because of this some experts think she will run for statewide office in 2010, either as governor or Secratery of State. Johnson was an Oakland County Commissioner from 1988 to 1998, …