The Wealthiest Californians
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NEW YORK — Here is a list of Californians excerpted from Forbes magazine’s 1986 list of the 400 richest Americans, in alphabetical order, showing residence, age, estimated fortune in millions of dollars and source of wealth. Figures marked x indicate the magazine assumed that a common fortune has been divided into equal shares.
Avery, Alice O’Neill, West Los Angeles, 69, $375-x, Inheritance (real estate)
Bechtel, Stephen Davison Jr., San Francisco, 61, $400, Engineering, construction
Bechtel, Stephen Davison Sr., Oakland, 86, $400, Engineering, construction
Bettingen, Burton Green, Beverly Hills and Newport Beach, 70s, $235-x, Inheritance
Bren, Donald Leroy, Newport Beach, Los Angeles, New York City, 54, $600, Real estate
Cargill, Margaret, La Jolla, 66, $315-x, Inheritance
Clark, Richard Wagstaff, Malibu, and New York City, 56, $180, Rock ‘n’ roll, TV
Cooke, Phoebe Hearst, Woodside, 59, $200-x, Inheritance, media
Copley, Helen Kinney, La Jolla, 63, $450, Publishing
Disney, Roy Edward, Los Angeles, 56, $400, Walt Disney Co., broadcasting
Field, Frederick Woodruff, Los Angeles, 33, $260, Inheritance, real estate, media
Fisher, Donald George, San Francisco, 58, $335, The Gap
Gallo, Ernest, Modesto, 77, $350-x, Wine
Gallo, Julio, Modesto, 76, $350-x, Wine
Getty, Gordon Peter, San Francisco, 52, $1,200, Inheritance (oil)
Gordy, Berry, Los Angeles, 56, $180, Motown Record
Green, Dorothy, Beverly Hills, 70s, $235-x, Inheritance
Griffin, Mervyn Edward, Beverly Hills, 61, $235, Televison
Hahn, Ernest Walter, Rancho Santa Fe, 67, $300, Shopping centers
Hammer, Armand, Los Angeles, New York City, Moscow, 88, $180, Entrepreneur
Hearst, George Randolph Jr., Los Angeles, 59, $200, Inheritance, media
Hearst, Hope Chandler, Beverly Hills, 65, $400, Inheritance, media
Hearst, Randolph Apperson, Hillsboro and Paso Robles, 70, $400, Inheritance, media
Hewlett, William Redington, Portola Valley, 73, $1,000, Hewlett-Packard
Howard, Robert Staples, Rancho Santa Fe, 61, $250, Publishing
Jobs, Steven Paul, Woodside, 31, $185, Computers
Kalmanovitz, Paul, Tiburon, 80, $250, Beer, real estate
Keck, Howard Brighton, Los Angeles, 73, $275, Inheritance
Keck, William Myron II, Los Angeles, 44, $190, Inheritance
Kerkorian, Kirk, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, 69, $600, Investments
Kroc, Joan Beverly, La Jolla, 58, $640, Inheritance
Lawrence, M. Larry, San Diego, 60, $180, Real estate
Lear, Norman Milton, Los Angeles, 64, $225, Television
Lurie, Robert Alfred, San Francisco, 57, $300, Inheritance, real estate
Milken, Michael R., Encino, 40, $500, Financier
Murdock, David Howard, Bel-Air, 63, $650, Investments
O’Neill, Richard Jerome, San Juan Capistrano, 63, $375-x, Inheritance, real estate
Packard, David, Los Altos Hills, 74, 2,000, Hewlett-Packard
Palevsky, Max, Beverly Hills, 62, $200, Computers
Perenchio, Andrew Jerold, Los Angeles, 55, $225, Television
Petersen, Robert Einar, Beverly Hills, 60, $235, Publishing
Rains, Liliore Green, Beverly Hills, 70s, $235-x, Inheritance
Roberts, George R., San Francisco, 43, $180, Leveraged buyouts
Shorenstein, Walter Herbert, San Francisco, 71, $325, Real estate
Simon, Norton Winfred, Los Angeles area, 79, $200, Industrialist, art collector
Singleton, Henry Earl, Los Angeles, 69, $550, Teledyne
Spanos, Alex Gus, Stockton, 63, $200, Real estate
Spelling, Aaron, Holmby Hills, 63, $235, Television
Stuart, Dwight Lyman, Beverly Hills, 62, $200-x, Inheritance (Carnation)
Taper, Sydney Mark, Los Angeles, 84, $300, First Charter Financial
Wasserman, Lewis Robert, Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, 73, $225, MCA.
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