11.   The Pew Center poll shows that a third-party presidential bid actually garners more support if Texas billionaire Ross Perot is not the candidate.

12.   The Texas billionaire has been coy about his own intentions.

13.   The billionaire was in Morocco on Saturday getting the Virgin Global Challenger ready for a possible launch next week.

14.   There were four billionaires in the Second Board a year ago but this time round only three managed to make the grade.

15.   Fotherby himself admitted that there is no billionaire waiting in the wings to bankroll a host of big-money signings.

16.   The billionaire was married four times and had three sons and two daughters.

17.   The feisty billionaire has been a foe of the two-party system which has seen the Republicans and the Democrats dominating the political scene for decades.