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The billionaire who wasn't : how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune

Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he "outed" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times. After going "undergr.

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  • "Dury Free da heng tou tou song zou yi wan cai fu de{7ff945} shi gu shi"
  • "Dury Free大亨偷偷送走億萬財富的{7ff945}實故事"

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  • "Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey to an Irish-American family struggling to make their way in the fiercest years of the Depression. This biography of one of the world's richest and most secretive donors tells the story of how he made his millions - buying and selling in post second world war Europe and Asia - and how he spent them."
  • "Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he "outed" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times. After going "undergr."@en

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  • "Biography"
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  • "The billionaire who wasn't : how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune"
  • "The billionaire who wasn't : how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune"@en
  • "Chen wo men huan huo zhu : Dury Free da heng tou tou song zou yi wan cai fu de{7ff945} shi gu shi"
  • "THE BILLIONAIRE WHO WASN'T : How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune"
  • "The billionaire who wasn't how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune"@en
  • "趁我們還活著 : Dury Free大亨偷偷送走億萬財富的{7ff945}實故事"