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Rockefeller, Perelman Join Buffett’s Charity Pledge
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David Rockefeller, Ronald Perelman, Larry Ellison, Sanford Weill, Ted Turner and Paul Allen joined a pledge started by Warren Buffett for billionaires to give more than half their wealth to charity.
The announcement brings to 40 the number of billionaires and wealthy executives who have publicly agreed to the pledge. Buffett has promised to donate more than 99 percent of his wealth. He is giving the greatest part of his fortune, estimated in March at $47 billion by Forbes Magazine, in annual installments to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.