5. Ken Griffin
Age: 45
Net Worth: $3.0 billion
Total amount of assets: $20 billion
The guy who installed a satellite dish in his dorm at Harvard so he could get a leg up on his investing now has a personal fortune of about $5.5 Billion. Griffin recently “blindsided” his wife by filing for divorce. She’s amassed a personal fortune in wealth and reputation as well, and together they apparently climbed as high as possible within the Chicago social circle. They bought art and made extraordinary donations. Their prenup stated that in the case of a divorce she gets the cash and he gets the art and real estate, but we’ll have to wait and see how these two hedge fund titans finagle things.
