JEFF GREENE
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BILLION SELF-MADE SCORE: ) SOURCE: REAL ESTATE, INVESTMENTS AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: PALM BEACH, FL PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Greene has spent hundreds of millions in recent years buying up and developing real estate in Palm Beach County and also in Lower Manhattan, where he’s building a high-end residential tower to be completed in 2020. He also owns over 2,400 apartments in Los Angeles. Greene has been finding ways to make money since he was a kid. At age 7 he shoveled walks and driveways. At 11 he had an 86-house paper route for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Massachusetts. Greene is pictured above in Worcester in 1976 on a break from
traveling around the country as a circus promoter, a job he held
for almost three years after college.