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JEFFREY LURIE

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$2.7

BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: SOURCE: PHILADELPH­IA EAGLES AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: WYNNEWOOD, PA PHILANTHRO­PY SCORE: Lurie flipped burgers at a Massachuse­tts drive-in theater before becoming an adjunct assistant social-policy professor at Boston University. He went on to buy the Philadelph­ia Eagles in 1994 for a reported $185 million, using stock in the family company Harcourt General as collateral. Now worth $3.1 billion, the Eagles won their first Super Bowl in 2018, beating the New England Patriots, which Lurie also had tried to buy.

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