Big Day For Billionaires: Bezos $2.7 Billion Richer, Slim Up $1.4 Billion

Luisa Kroll, Forbes
Fri, 04/27/2012 - 3:37pm

The week ended on a high note for most of the tycoons on our Real-Time Billionaires index.

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