41.   He and his wife Virginia are known for their modern art collection and their donations to the arts.

42.   Gow moved to New York after a stint working in Dallas as the curator of the private art collection of the developer Trammell Crow.

43.   He donated half of his family art collection to the Neuberger Museum at the State University of New York at Purchase, and half to Vassar.

44.   He believes sharing his art collection is just as important as opening his checkbook.

45.   He is also selling part of his modern art collection through Vivian Horan, a New York dealer.

46.   He donated another billion when he gave his art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

47.   He has a large, and by some accounts risque, art collection.

48.   He has plowed some of his own millions into a world-class contemporary art collection and a home in the affluent Brentwood section of Los Angeles.

49.   He sold parts of his own art collection and real estate to help finance Edison.

50.   Her furniture is classic and faded, and there is an impressive art collection inherited from her husband, Robert Gross, a wealthy businessman.