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In the 80s there was a character who starred in the pages of the heart for organizing some of the most impressive and striking events that are remembered. His name was Malcolm Forbes , the American billionaire whose father founded Forbes magazine in 1917.

That bible of the billionaires who annually appear in a list about the level of their wealth and that on some occasion has given them a headache. The most recent has been the withdrawal of the title from Kylie Jenner as the youngest billionaire in history accused of lying and in 2013, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal denounced Forbes for underestimating his fortune after publishing that he only had 18,000 million euros.

Six months before his death in February 1990 , the billionaire held a lavish party at his Tangier palace, Palais Mendoub, to celebrate his 70th birthday where the hostess was his then partner, Elizabeth Taylor , who was expressly combed by Alexandre de Paris to highlight its spectacular green linen caftan with metal inlays. The birthday boy spent just over two million euros to charter several planes that brought his VIP guests, including Robert Maxwell, Aline Griffith, Diane von Fürstenberg, Gianni Agnelli, Calvin Klein or Henry Kissinger , one of the greatest strategists in the world. 20th century and strong man of the Bilderberg Club.

The Taylor and Forbes thing was a montage. There was a very close friendship between them because the journalist Michelangelo Signorile took him out of the closet after his death . However, Malcolm had been married for 39 years to Roberta Remsen, with whom he had five children.

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Unlike other mega ricks , Forbes knew how to enjoy money without going bankrupt. He was an avid collector: he owned 9 Fabergé eggs - the jeweler of the Russian imperial house - which made him the most important private collector in the world while the Kremlin was 10 and Queen Elizabeth II was 3; treasured 100,000 medieval soldiers; I had several handmade Monopoly; different objects related to the sea, such as a reproduction of the ship Lusitania and, above all, he was a fan of the hot air balloons with which he visited different countries that he welcomed with allegorical figures, such as a caravel in Spain, a sphinx in Egypt or a château in France, and of the Harley Davidson, of which he owned almost a hundred.

As a good rich man, he liked to invest in whims like his private planes, a Boeing 727 or a DC-9; the five yachts that he acquired between 1955 and 1985, which he named Highlander and where celebrities of all colors enjoyed, from Harrison Ford to Charles of England, passing by Ronald Reagan, Brooke Shields or King Hussein of Jordan , and their incredible properties around the world, such as the Balleroy castle in Normandy (France); a seventeenth-century mansion outside London; a palace in Tangier ; a single-family home on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan; an old farmhouse on the outskirts of New York; ranches in the American states of Colorado or Montana and the paradisiacal island of Laucala in Fiji.

Parallel to his eccentricity, he was also a generous man who was involved in countless social causes. Without going any further, shortly before his death he gave Elizabeth Taylor a check of almost a million dollars for his foundation in the fight against AIDS.

He earned the respect of his country because he was a hero during World War II, he was the first person to fly the United States in a balloon, he graduated in Political Science from the prestigious Princeton University, he was a senator from New Jersey and he failed in his election. as governor of the aforementioned state, so from 1957 he devoted himself exclusively to the magazine and, after the death of his brother seven years later, controlled the entire emporium.

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Probably, there was only one man in that same decade of the 80's who perhaps overshadowed him when he boasted of eccentricities and whims, such as Adnan Khashoggui with his exquisite parties at his Al Baraka mansion (luck, in Arabic) in Marbella, a property of almost 5,000 hectares that he bought from Cristina Onassis' father-in-law, the pharmaceutical businessman Henri Roussel, where at many parties the women wore dresses with jewels embedded in gold and silver threads; Beluga caviar was served in gold cans, and different exotic animals roamed freely with gemstone necklaces. Currently, on the farm is located La Zagaleta, the most luxurious urbanization in Europe.

Considered one of the 400 richest men in the United States at the time, Malcolm Forbes had a fortune calculated at around 1,100 million euros three decades ago . Until the end of his life, he was faithful to his motto "when you stop dreaming, you stop living". He never stopped doing it, but a cardiac arrest prevented him from continuing to enjoy himself.

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