Leon Black
Art collection: $750 million
Private equity specialist reportedly paid $27 million in 2005 for Constantin Brancusi's "Bird in Space" (pictured), at the time a record for a sculpture. Today his collection includes works by old masters, impressionists and contemporary artists. He sits on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. He also helped fund a biography of Pablo Picasso. Love of art runs in his blood: According to reports, his mother was an artist and an aunt ran a Manhattan art gallery.
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