Guests Worth $120 Billion Eat With Trump at First State Dinner
Rupert Murdoch, co-chairman and founder of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., right, and Jerry Hall arrive for a state dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on April 24.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergEight of the world’s wealthiest people attended President Donald Trump’s first state dinner last night along with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
Five of them -- LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Blackstone Chief Executive Officer Steve Schwarzman, leveraged-buyout tycoon Henry Kravis and Federal Express founder Fred Smith -- have a combined net worth exceeding $114 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Other billionaires present were Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein, cosmetics heir Ron Lauder and Trump himself, all with fortunes below the $4 billion cutoff for the ranking of the world’s 500 richest people.