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John W. Kluge German billionaire
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I was Born September 21, 1914—I died September 7, 2012 I'm From Chemnitz Germany Emigrated to America in 1922
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Famous multibillionaire I'm most famous for my company Metromedia. I died at 95 with a small fortune of 6.5 billion dollars—after countless of large donations over many years. I was the 35 th richest man in America when I died, at one time, I was the #1 richest.
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Famous philanthropist philanthropy (fɪˈlænθrəpɪ) — n, pl -pies 1. the practice of performing charitable or benevolent actions 2. love of mankind in general [C17: from Late Latin philanthrōpia, from Greek: love of mankind, from philos loving + anthrōpos man] phi'lanthropist — n philanthrope
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Coming to America I came to America in 1922 when i was around 7 or 8 years old My first job was at about 11 at a Ford assembly line.
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I won an scholarship to Columbia university, which was later doubled. I repaid the college with a donation of 400 million dollars. And attended Wayne State University Graduated with a B.A. In economics
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Founder of Metromedia I purchased Metromedia in the mid 1950s a company successor to DuMont Television Network* which couldn’t compete with other competition
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What is Metromedia? Metromedia is the largest television and broadcasting network in America founding and numerous popular TV and radio shows across the country including fox television network
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I founded and ran two hundred companies mostly in media. At 95 I never retired but was one of the wealthiest businessmen in the world I was in the us army for 4 years
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Interests I love Contemporary Indigenous Australian art and I enjoy collecting artwork. I love my estates in Virginia and Florida
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My love life I was married and divorced four times with a three children. Samantha. Joseph and John Jr (adopted)
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